Baphomet Wall Plaque, 8 1/4" x 8 1/4" Beginnings Pillar Candle for the serpent's protective side

for the serpent's protective side

sovereignty

Of all the tools on a Wiccan altar

brings her grounding

Baphomet Wall Plaque, 8 1/4" x 8 1/4" Beginnings Pillar Candle for the serpent's protective sideBaphomet as most people picture it, winged, goat headed, androgynous, seated with one hand raised and one lowered, was created in 1854 by the French occultist liphas Lvi, who called it the Sabbatic Goat and described it as a philosophical diagram rather than a deity or anything evil. Every element is a deliberate symbol: the torch of universal intelligence between the horns, the caduceus of nature's generative force, the androgynous body uniting