The Elements And Their Correspondences
The Elements
by: Midnight Aura from Magickal Winds
Air
Maiden
Astrological Rulers: Jupiter, Mercury
Keys: Life Principle, Intellect
Raphael (instructor, traveler, healer)
Rules: mind, essential qualities, spiritual plane, knowledge, abstract learning, theories, windy or high places, breathe, speech
Plegmatic: Thinking; weak inhibitory
Virtues: gregarious, diligent, optimistic, dexterity, joie-de-vivre,
persuasive, friendly, healthy, knowledgeable
Vices: frivolity, boasting, absent mindedness, rootless, easily distracted, loquacious, tends to intellectualize emotions (rather than experience them)
Spring & sunrise
East, Eurus
Colour: yellow
Symbols: topaz, galbanum, aspen, frankincense, vervain, birds, eagle & hawk
Tools: wand (in some traditions), censer (arrow stabs air & conveys message Outer to Inner)
Spirits: sylphs under Paralda (very hard to see & know, teach mind control and how to level out your thinking processes)
Shortage: mind blank, shortness of breath, non-comprehension of known data
Excess: “gas bloat”, inability to focus attention, “spacey” thoughts
Fire
Temptress
Astrological Rulers: Sun, Mars, Jupiter
Keys: Light Principle, Action
Michael (victor over ignorance)
Rules: force, energy, spirit, heat, mental plane, blood, sap, life, will, surgery, destruction, purification, hearth fires, volcanoes, explosions Choleric; Intuitive; lively
Virtues: courageous, self-assertive, chivalrous, enthusiastic, passionate, experienced, virile
Vices: self-centered, ruthless, fanaticism, vindictiveness, anger, hatred
Midsummer & noon
South, Notus
Colour: red
Symbols: fire opal, almond (in flower), garlic, hibiscus, pepper, olibanum
Tools: scourge, sword, athame (in some traditions)
Spirits: salamanders under Djinn (elusive & hostile, teach power over fire & energy)
Shortage: body heavy or chilled, thoughts draggy, unenthusiastic
Excess: hot, hyper, flitting thoughts, insomnia, anger, snappishness
Water
Mother
Astrological Rulers: Venus, Moon
Keys: Love Principle, Fertility Gabriel (turns force into form)
Rules: emotions, love, sorrow, courage, astral planes, clairvoyance, tides, oceans, pools, streams, wells, womb Melancholic; Feeling; strong, excitatory
Virtues: compassion, tranquility, tenderness, forgiveness, modesty, fluidity in creativity, receptivity, influence
Vices: self-indulgence, negligence, cowardice, indifference, instability, moodiness, infatuation, easily put upon, delusions
Autumn & sunset
West, Zephyrus
Colour: blue
Symbols: willow, dolphin, fish, water snakes, sea birds, myrrh, ferns, rushes
Tool: cup or cauldron (depending on tradition)
Spirits: undines under Neksa (elusive at first, flowing & difficult to understand, watch politely and learn)
Shortage: deep body dryness, hotness, mind & body feel separated, no empathy
Excess: body puffiness, sinus (etc.) flows, mood swings, “touchiness”, apathy
Earth
Crone
Astrological Rulers: Venus, Saturn
Keys: Law Principle, Solidity
Auriel (“Lord of Awe”)
Rules: birth & death, body, growth, nature, stones & metals, material things,
caves, chasms, silence, graves, fields
Sanguine; Sensation; calm, imperturbable
Virtues: strength, endurance, commitment, responsibility, thoroughness, practicality, wisdom, patience, sense of timing
Vices: dullness, lack of conscience, melancholy, boredom, inertia, stagnation, hoarding of resources (including information)
Yule & midnight
North, Boreas
Colour: green
Symbols: oak, rock crystal, salt, bull or cow, stag, grains, comfrey, ivy
Tools: pentacle, altar stone (body of Anima Mundi)
Spirits: gnomes under Gob (friendly & easy to reach, teach access to own depths & caverns & how to mine & work the vein of gold therein)
Shortage: spaciness, hyper-activity, instability
Excess: body heaviness, general lack of energy, inertia, etc.
by: Midnight Aura from Magickal Winds
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