Magical 71 by Francesco Frongia

Art by Francesco Frongia

Above, a blazing, magic portrait of The Wizard of Northampton by friend FRANCESCO FRONGIA. It's also a belated birthday gift of sort: notice the number 71 as the magical spell in the illustration!

Francesco Frongia is an Italian illustrator and graphic novelist, founder of the comics collective Mammaiuto. He also draw the cover for Franceso Pelosi's Alan Moore: La Mappaterra del Mago.

For more information about Frongia visit his Instagram HERE. Grazie mille Checco! :) 

From The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, page 26:

[...] since the disc or coin is sometimes called a pantacle or pentacle, you might decide to furnish your design with a five-pointed star. In this case it’s important to remember what the symbol means, namely that when the star has one point uppermost, presiding over the four points below, this stands for the supremacy of the so-called ‘fifth element’, the element of Spirit, over the four worldly elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth. (A pentacle turned upside-down just means the opposite, with Spirit downcast and neglected, dominated by material concerns. This is not to claim that such a symbol can’t be said to be Satanic when inverted in this way, but simply that it is no more Satanic than the ordinary world about us, where material concerns predominate at the expense of soul and spirit.) [...]