| The Pentacle Garden (excerpt from: Wicca Garden by Gerina Dunwich) Choose a level spot in a sunny location for your pentagram herb garden. Drive a stake into the ground where you wish the center of the garden to be. Tie one end of a string to the stake, and the other end to a bottle filled with sand (Use a string four feet long if you are making a pentagram garden with a diameter of eight feet; three feet of string for one with a diameter of six feet, and so forth). With string taut, turn the bottle upside down, allowing the sand to slowly pour out as you walk clockwise in a complete circle. The sand will mark the outer circle of the pentagram, which you can then cover with bricks, stones, seashells, etc. Remove the stake, string and bottle, and then prepare the soil within the circle. Using the edge of a board as a guide, lay down five straight lines of bricks or stones inside the circle to form a symbol of the five pointed star. Once the pentagram outline is complete, you can then begin planting herbs in the garden. Too add even more intrest to it, plant different species of herbs in each section of the pentagram and put a small sundial, birdbath, goddess statue or other garden decoration the center. If the pentagram is outlined with bricks, use paint of chalk to decorate them with magickal and astrological symbols. | 
