This page describes how to make a pentagram. This was a closely guarded secret for ages, in the past it happened that a member of the Pythagorean school was kicked out because he didn't keep it a secret. Now i reveal it to you on the internet :-).

Step 1. Start out with a support line. and make a vesica piscis. A vesica piscis is, two circles with each others midpoint on the other circle's edge.

Step 2. You can now draw another circle.

Step 3. Don't change the size of your pair of compasses and add another one. Make a new line to find the middle of this new vesica piscis.

Step 4. Now you have to change the size of your pair of compasses as shown by the red line and make this new circle (you only have to draw that part).

Step 5. Do this another time with the newfound point.

Step 6. Do not change the size of your pair of compasses and repeat.

Step 5. Fill in the lines of the pentagram

Step 5. Final drawing. Note that the pentagram is 'born' out of the vesica piscis, which is considered to be the mother of everything.