Blood of the Pure - Chapter Ten - The Unicursal Hexagram

The Unicursal Hexagram

The unicursal hexagram is an hexagram or six-pointed star created for the purpose of drawing the figure in one continuous movement, unicursally, in the same way other magical polygons are drawn, like the pentagram for example. This is significant in ritual magick when invoking and banishing hexagrams must be made. It can also be depicted inside a circle with the points touching it.

In Thelema, developed by Aleister Crowley, the hexagram is usually depicted with a five-petalled flower in the centre which symbolizes a pentacle (and the divine feminine), the whole symbol summing eleven (five petals of the flower plus the six points of the hexagram), being 11 the number of divine union. The Symbol itself is the equivalent of the Egyptian Ankh or the Rosicrucian's Rosy Cross, representing the microcosmic forces (the pentacle / flower, as a symbol of the pentagram with the 5 elements, the tetragrammaton or YHVH), interweaved with the macrocosmic forces (the hexagram, representing the planetary or heavenly cosmic forces, the Divine).