This is my simple interpretation of the sigil of Baphomet:


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The goat-head represents nature, the god Pan. The two horns represent duality/polarity, light and dark, and given that the horns protrude from the same being it points to both forces being intricately intertwined, stemming from the same source and existing in unity with one another. Both forces exist alongside each other and cannot exist without the other.

The pentagram represents man, individuality. That it overlaps with the goat means that man is a part of nature, that both comprise the Creation.

The hebrew letters in the circle spell LVYTN, or Leviathan, which is normally associated as being a sea serpent of sorts. That these letters are within a circle is representative of the Ouroboros, and is symbolic of the oceanic and abysmal nature of the Universe.

Given that the goathead and the pentagram (nature and man) are encompassed by this circle (the Universe) the meaning I find behind it is symbolic of the unity of Creation, of all beings stemming from One Infinite Creator in which all things reside within as well as containing in itself divine essence. Nature and being would not exist had the Universe not facilitated their existence in the first place.

This is my take on it, thus transmuting the apparent 'darkness' of this sigil into light. I am one who holds spiritual beliefs and a deep interest in metaphysics, theosophy, general esoterica, etc., and align myself more with the 'light', yet I have no qualms wearing my Baphomet shirt bearing the sigil depicted above out in public, knowing that the meaning I derive from it is a purely positive one, though it's not to say that I have not gotten some iffy, disturbed and slightly fearful stares when I do decide to wear it. Though I do not feel that one should fear such a symbol unless their interpretation of it is in some way dark.