This is the explanation I heard when I was looking into pagan/occult stuff twenty years ago. I liked this as it provided an excuse to use the word ‘quintessence’ (as in ‘fifth element’).
I also heard another explanation that the five points represent the limbs and head of a human, making the star a simplistic ‘person’ diagram. I like how prosaic that is.
I had almost figured out the meaning…
As a strictly mathematical/geometric property, the pentagram has the interesting fact that you can create one by some trivially simple paper-folding.
Get a narrow strip of paper, say 1" wide and several inches long. Tie a simple knot in it. Pull the knot as tight as you can without making a mess of it. Flatten the knot on a flat surface, gently pulling it tighter as you go. See here (scroll down about one screen-full) for illustration.
Hold it up to a light to see the complete pentagram showing through.
The outsides of some Mormon Temples feature dozens of inverted pentagrams. These Temples were planned before Éliphas Lévi connected the bottom placement of the quintessential point to the triumph of man’s carnal nature; thus presumably the Mormon symbols are not intended as Satanic.
The “five wounds of Jesus” idea goes back at least as far as the fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which Sir Gawain has a five-pointed star on his shield:
A rough modern English summary: The pentangle or “endless knot” is a symbol that Solomon created, betokening “trawthe” (the ancestor of our modern English word “truth,” but closer in connotation to modern English “fidelity”), and it’s appropriate to Gawain because he is the truest knight out there. The five points represent all sorts of things in which Gawain is perfect: his five senses, his five fingers, his faith in the five wounds of Christ, the five joys of Mary, and especially, the five virtues in which Gawain never fails: “franchise” (generosity), “fellowship,” “cleanness” (purity), “courtesy,” and “pité” (a word that expresses both modern English “pity” – i.e. compassion – and “piety”). In addition to all of these symbolic fives, the poet makes much of the fact that the line used to draw the pentangle is never broken; it has no beginning or end, representing another sort of perfection.
Of course, in the rest of the poem we find out that no one, including Gawain, is perfect and that the desire to be perfect can itself be a temptation to sin, so whether the pentangle is a good or evil symbol really depends on your point of view…
I’m sure there is many interpretations and as I know it the star is an angel, or a person using angelic like powers, and being protected while doing so(by the outline - hedge of protection)
It’s occult; very, very occult.
Recognizing that “occult” simply means “hidden from view.” 
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The latest version of Android Tapatalk is shite; they’ve eliminated most of its useful features. Including the ability to not post one’s sig in every post. Bastards.
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My Gosh! I am suddenly reminded of this thread.
I decoded an old Illuminati text, typed the (French-style) coordinates into a mapping site and found this inverted pentacle ! :eek:
The text also pointed to another location two miles south of Guerneville, California, but that area is heavily forested and Google maps doesn’t appear to show any pentacle there.
A variant of the “butt dial”?