The Elements

by:  Midnight Aura from Magickal Winds

Air

Elemental Air Symbols

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

Elemental Fire Symbols

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

Elemental Water Symbols

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

Elemental Earth Symbols

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