The Seventh Pentacle of Saturn: Meaning, Origins & How to Use This Pentacle of Solomon
The Seventh Pentacle of Saturn carries one of the most striking offices in the entire Solomonic tradition: it is described as fit for exciting earthquakes, with power sufficient to make the whole universe tremble. That is not a vague claim of magical potency — it is the documented office, recorded precisely in the source text. As a Pentacle of Solomon, this figure commands through the combined force of all Nine Orders of Angels inscribed within it, which is an arrangement found nowhere else among the Saturn pentacles.
Saturn governs endings, dissolution, limits, time, and the kind of pressure that precedes collapse or transformation. The full spectrum of what that planet can do in magical work — from binding and cursing to deep structural change — is worth understanding before you pick up any Saturn pentacle. You can explore that wider context in the history and practice behind the Pentacles of Solomon.
This article focuses entirely on the seventh figure: what it contains, what it does, how to work with it, and whether it belongs in your practice. If you want to see how it fits within the complete set, the full guide to all 44 Pentacles of Solomon has you covered.
Construction and Symbolism of the Seventh Pentacle of Saturn
What sets this pentacle apart from every other figure in the Saturn set is what it calls upon. Where its siblings draw on a handful of divine names or a small group of angels, the Seventh calls the entire celestial hierarchy. Inscribed within the figure are the Nine Orders of Angels: Chaioth ha-Qadesh, Auphanim, Aralim, Chashmalim, Seraphim, Melakim, Elohim, Beni Elohim, and Cherubim.
These nine orders correspond to the full angelic hierarchy as organized in Kabbalistic tradition, from the highest order nearest the divine throne down through the levels closest to the material world. The Chaioth ha-Qadesh — the Holy Living Creatures — occupy the uppermost rank. The Cherubim, often misunderstood as soft figures from popular imagery, represent an ancient order of fierce celestial guardians. To inscribe all nine within a single figure is a declaration that no level of the divine order is absent from this working.
Not all nine names are rendered in the same script. Six of the orders are inscribed in ordinary Hebrew characters, while the remaining three are written in the alphabet known as the Passing of the River, an angelic script used in Solomonic tradition to encode names at a register beyond ordinary language. The mixing of scripts is deliberate: it signals that this figure addresses the celestial hierarchy across every mode of its existence, from the plainly named to the barely speakable.
The verse chosen for this pentacle comes from Psalm 18:7: "Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth." This is not a psalm of petition or protection. It describes the physical world itself responding to divine wrath — ground splitting, mountains shifting, foundations failing. The verse was not chosen for atmosphere. It was chosen because it describes exactly what the pentacle's office claims to produce: a shaking of the world at the level of its foundations.
Saturn's color is black and its metal is lead. The geometric figure and the arrangement of the nine angelic names within it are drawn in the traditional Solomonic style — concentric forms bearing the names in Hebrew script, structured so that no part of the figure is decorative filler. Every name has a position. The total number of distinct angelic orders named — nine — carries weight in Kabbalistic numerology, nine being associated with completion and the final stage before return to unity. In the context of a pentacle designed to move the earth itself, a figure built on completion and totality is the only construction that makes sense.
The Spiritual Office of the Seventh Pentacle of Saturn
The documented office is seismic in the most literal sense: exciting earthquakes, with force described as sufficient to make the whole universe tremble. That language is not poetic decoration — it tells you something specific about what kind of will this pentacle is meant to amplify. This is a figure built for large-scale disruption. Not targeted harm, not binding, not cursing a named person. Disruption at a foundational level.
Set against the rest of Saturn's seven, the scale is unmistakable. The First strikes terror into individual spirits; the Second holds against adversity; the Third opens a channel for invocation; the Fourth ends one specific thing through ruin and destruction; the Fifth defends the operator and disperses guarding spirits — all of these work at the level of a spirit, a person, or a single situation. Compare it to its closest sibling in scale, though. The Sixth Pentacle of Saturn is an explicitly cursing and binding figure — it targets a named person and brings demonic obsession upon them. The Seventh is a different category of working entirely. It does not name a target. It does not bind or obsess a specific individual. Its force is directed at structures, conditions, and situations — the kind of entrenched, immovable circumstances that feel as solid as bedrock and just as impossible to shift by ordinary means.
In practice, that translates to workings aimed at breaking apart what has become calcified: a situation that has been locked in place too long, a relationship dynamic that has hardened into something suffocating, an institution or power arrangement that seems untouchable. The figure's office is not about inflicting suffering on a person — it is about inducing collapse in something that has overstayed its welcome in your life or in the world around you.
This is not a gentle pentacle, and it does not pretend to be. The Nine Orders named within it represent a total mobilization of celestial force. When you work with this figure, you are not asking for a small shift. You are asking for the kind of change that shakes foundations. That requires clarity of intention, honest self-examination about what you actually want to see fall, and the willingness to sit with the aftermath. Things that shake apart do not always fall in tidy directions. The Seventh Pentacle of Saturn rewards practitioners who are ready for real disruption, not just symbolic gestures at transformation.
Saturn Correspondences for This Working
Saturn's established correspondences are consistent across planetary magic tradition. The planet governs Saturday, making that day the primary choice for any Saturn working. Its color is black, its metal is lead, and its element is earth. Crystals traditionally aligned with Saturn include black obsidian, jet, black onyx, smoky quartz, hematite, and black tourmaline. Herbs under Saturn's rulership include mullein, wormwood, comfrey, patchouli, Solomon's seal, yew, and cypress. Traditional incenses for Saturn include myrrh, asafoetida, and patchouli.
For the Seventh Pentacle specifically, black obsidian is the crystal this working calls for above the others. Obsidian is volcanic — formed by eruption and rapid cooling. It carries the memory of the earth breaking open under pressure, which maps precisely onto this pentacle's office of seismic disruption. It does not merely absorb or protect; it holds the signature of rupture within its structure. Placing obsidian alongside this pentacle grounds your intention in that same quality of irreversible geological force.
Wormwood is the herb this pentacle favors. Among Saturn's plants, wormwood has long been associated with banishment, dissolution of what has overstayed, and penetration of hidden or entrenched conditions. It is bitter medicine — not comfortable, but effective when something needs to be cleared at the root. As incense for this working, myrrh is the right choice: heavy, resinous, anchored in funerary and transformational traditions for thousands of years, it signals to the working that what is being asked for is a real ending, not a surface shift.
The planetary day is Saturday, and timing by Saturn's hour sharpens the working considerably. For a pentacle this serious, working in the first Saturn hour after sunrise on Saturday is traditional. You can find your exact local Saturn hours using the planetary hour almanac on this site.
Who Should Work With the Seventh Pentacle of Saturn
This pentacle is for situations that feel immovable. The person who reaches for it is not looking to smooth things over or nudge circumstances in a better direction. They are looking at something that has locked itself in — a stagnant job structure that has blocked every exit for years, a power dynamic that keeps reasserting itself no matter how it is addressed, an arrangement of circumstances that seems to reset to the same suffocating configuration every time it is disturbed. The Seventh is for when you need the ground to shift under that thing.
It is worth being clear about what this pentacle is not for, because it is easy to reach for the most dramatic-sounding figure when you are frustrated. If your actual need is protection against a specific person threatening you, the Fifth Pentacle of Saturn — which defends against nighttime threats and the spirits guarding treasures — is more precisely aimed. If you want to bind a specific named person, the Sixth is the figure for that. The Seventh does not bind individuals. It breaks structures.
What self-selects someone in for this working is the specific quality of what they are facing: something that has weight, duration, and apparent solidity. Old institutions. Long-calcified family patterns. Agreements or situations that have become so entrenched that they feel like permanent facts rather than changeable conditions. If the thing you need to change has that quality — heavy, old, seemingly immovable — this pentacle was built for it.
One honest caveat: a working this forceful benefits from clarity about what you actually want to fall apart. When foundations shake, they do not always fall cleanly. Spend real time before the ritual asking yourself what you are prepared to see disrupted, and whether you are genuinely ready for the aftermath of the change you are asking for. That is not a warning to hesitate — it is the kind of preparation that makes a working like this land cleanly rather than creating chaos you did not intend.
A Modern Ritual for the Seventh Pentacle of Saturn
Timing
Work on a Saturday, in the first or eighth hour of Saturn after sunrise. These are the hours when Saturn's current is strongest in the day. For precise local timing, use the planetary hour almanac — the difference between a Saturn hour and any other on a Saturday is significant for a working this serious. The night hours of Saturn (first or eighth after sunset) are also valid, particularly if the situation you are addressing has a hidden or shadowed quality to it.
Materials
- Black candle — Saturn's color grounds the working in the planet's dissolving, structure-ending current, not just ambiance.
- Black obsidian — chosen specifically for this pentacle because obsidian is born from the earth breaking open; it holds the signature of rupture that this office calls for.
- Wormwood — not included as a generic Saturn herb, but because wormwood's specific virtue is dissolution of what has entrenched itself, which is exactly what the Seventh's office dismantles.
- Myrrh incense — resinous and funerary in character, it signals that what is being asked for is a real ending, not a temporary shift.
- The Seventh Pentacle of Saturn — drawn by hand in black ink on paper or printed from a reliable source; the figure should include the Nine Orders of Angels and be visually complete before the ritual begins.
Setup
Clear your working space and lay out the pentacle at the center. Place the black candle directly behind it — north if you orient your space directionally — and set the obsidian in front of the figure, between it and you, so the stone sits as an anchor for the energy being called. Scatter a small amount of dried wormwood in a ring around the pentacle. Light the myrrh incense before you light the candle. Let the smoke establish itself in the space first. Sit quietly for a few minutes and let your focus settle. Do not rush this part. The Nine Orders take the whole of your attention, not a distracted portion of it.
The Working
Light the black candle. Hold the pentacle or rest your hands on either side of it without covering the figure. Look at it directly. Name, clearly and internally or aloud, the specific structure or situation you are asking to be broken apart. Be specific — not a vague complaint, but the actual shape of the thing: what it is, how long it has been in place, and what would need to shift for it to truly end. Then speak the intention:
By the Nine Orders called within this seal — Chaioth ha-Qadesh, Auphanim, Aralim, Chashmalim, Seraphim, Melakim, Elohim, Beni Elohim, Cherubim — I call the force that shakes the foundations. Let what has hardened be broken. Let what has stood immovable be moved. So I will it, so it is done.
Sit with the pentacle and the candle burning for as long as the working feels active — usually between ten and thirty minutes. There is no specific word count or duration to hit. You will feel when the intention has landed. Do not push past that point.
Closing
When the working feels complete, set the pentacle face-down. Extinguish the candle — do not blow it out; snuff it. Thank the angelic orders by reciting their names once more, briefly, as a closing acknowledgment rather than an invocation. Dispose of the wormwood outside your home, not in your household trash. The obsidian can be kept on your altar or cleansed and stored. The pentacle can be retained for repeat work or destroyed respectfully by burning if the situation resolves.
How to Work With the Seventh Pentacle of Saturn Today
The construction requirement that defines this pentacle above any other practical consideration is the completeness of the Nine Orders. All nine must be present and correctly spelled in the figure. This is not a bureaucratic rule — it is the working's logic. The office is described as making the whole universe tremble, and the Nine Orders represent the full hierarchy of celestial force from throne to earth. Remove one and the figure is no longer making that claim. If you are drawing the pentacle by hand, take the time to research each angelic order's correct transliteration from the Hebrew, and check your work before the ritual.
Traditional construction called for lead as the working metal — engraved in lead during a Saturn hour, consistent with the planetary correspondence. For most practitioners today, that level of material exactness is not accessible, and the tradition itself has always held that a correctly drawn and properly charged figure on paper carries real power. The operative requirement the tradition emphasizes most is the correct reproduction of the figure, not the substrate it sits on. What matters is that the names are present, legible, and intentionally placed.
Planetary timing is worth preserving for this pentacle even if you adapt everything else. The Seventh Pentacle of Saturn is not a casual working — its office is large, and working within the correct planetary hour aligns your will with the current that the figure is designed to ride. Skipping timing matters less for smaller workings; for a pentacle explicitly built to shake foundations, it matters more. Treat Saturday's Saturn hour as a non-negotiable rather than a nice-to-have.
The office of this pentacle is not cursing or binding in the interpersonal sense, but it is undeniably forceful. There is no reason to apologize for that or soften it. The figure makes a very large claim and it is designed to back that claim up. What that means for your practice is simple: work with it when the scale of what you are facing actually warrants it. Not every stuck situation needs this level of force. When it does — when you are genuinely up against something immovable and you have made peace with the disruption that comes when immovable things are finally moved — the Seventh Pentacle of Saturn is one of the most powerful figures in the tradition for that exact purpose. Trust the material, trust your preparation, and let the Nine Orders do what they were inscribed to do.