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That’s because the pentagram is not the pentagram in Japan. You are misusing it from the Japanese perspective, and also in that misuse, evoking a large degree of painful memories and feelings for Her.

What you call a pentagram in the West is rather associated with the legendary Onmyoji named Abe no Seimei. I wouldn’t typically suggest anime or Netflix or things, but if you’re that unfamiliar with him conceptually you’ll want to at least brush up on the iceberg layers of pop culture surrounding him (China loves the guy).

When she was shamelessly attacked and betrayed, it was by one of his descendants. A really self-entitled prick of a grandson who was trusted with all of the food for the Tennō and family. Abe no Yasuchika of course invoked his grandfather’s symbols while at the same time being a complete asshole. He murdered her son and husband and blamed it on her.

So invoking symbols painful to the Kami ritually while also using them wrong is like a double-invokation of her trauma and is therefore summoning Ara-mitama. Before you think like a weeb no this has nothing to do with “Ara ara”. You’re invoking the wrathful nature of the Kami. Also, as a general rule, Kami associated with tradition do NOT like to be mixed up or syncreticized with foreign or non-animistic systems. This is no ordinary Kami, either; she is Imperial.

If you want to calm her down - also please stop that because it’s probably fucking with me, seriously, you are 100% involving another being for the ride here - you want sutras. Sutras under circumstances I am still understanding - seeing as I am not Buddhist - seem to make her really nostalgic and happy. She’s also absolutely berserk for pine. But pine, cedar, make her presence feel as though it is in a temple like the ones she or her husband Toba (aka Hōō) greatly & frequently sponsored.

Anyway, Seimei isn’t the problem. Everyone loves Abe no Seimei. One of the best foxes ever.