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​The Elements

​Earth   ~   Air   ~   Fire   ~   Water   ~   Spirit

Elemental Chant
 
The earth, the air, the fire, the water, return, return, return, return
The earth, the air, the fire, the water, return, return, return, return
 
IA        IA        IA        IA        IO        IO        IO        IO
 
IA        IA        IA        IA        IO        IO        IO        IO
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​Each of these elements cleanses and purifies but must honoured and used in balance as they can also be just as destructive and consuming as they are cleansing and healing.
 
As with all magick, balance is necessary.
 
The directions in which each of the elements reside is different for everyone depending on if you practice a certain magickal practice or where on this beautiful earth you live and what makes sense to you. 

This also goes for corresponding tools attributed to each of the elements.  For example many magickal traditions associate the athame or sword with the element of air however I do not, it doesn’t make sense to me.  I associate them both with the element of fire as they are forged in fire.
 
So below, I will share with you my elemental knowledge and associations and how it makes sense to me.
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Earth

The element of Earth is the densest of all the elements.
 
You use this element when working with  
Money                   Property                   Business                    Security                     Loyalty
Strength                Stability                    Finances, Wealth & Abundance                        
Responsibility       Grounding                Connection to the physical body and health
 
Earth’s place is caves, forests, valleys, parks, bushland, fields etc.

Direction - West
Living on the East Coast of Australia, to the west is the an immense area of land, so to me it only makes sense that the element of earth sits in the West

Colours - The colours of the earth.  Browns, Golds, Greens etc

Tools - Crystals, Cauldrons, Plants, Pentacle

Signs - Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn
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Air

Air is the realm of the mind and all mental activity
 
You use this element when working with  
Movement                           Travel                         Freedom                  Thought
Ideas                                    Intellect                      Imagination             Discovery
Psychic Powers                   Knowledge                 Dreams
  
Air's places are mountain tops, windy areas, clear or cloudy skies, wind storm

Direction - South
Living on the East Coast of Australia, we experience the strong southern winds.  In the winter the winds are cold and strong bring in the storms.  In the heat of summer, we wish for the southerly winds to come to bring the temperature down so it makes sense to me to hold the element of air in the south.

Colours - Pastels

Tools - Incense, Mists, Wands

Signs - Gemini, Libra and Aquarius
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Fire

​Fire is the only one of the elements that cannot exist without feeding and gaining energy from something else.  Realm of the sun, the giver of life
 
You use this element when working with  
Passion                     Intensity                  Desire                       Intuition
Understanding         Imagination            Leadership               Possibilities
Creativity                  Fear                         Motivation               Transformation
 
Fire’s places are whenever you can feel the element.  A hot summers day at the beach with the sun shining its burning rays upon you, or on a cold winters night infront of a fire.

Direction - North
Residing in the Southern Hemisphere, to the north is the equator so the further north you go, the hotter it gets so it makes sense to me that the element of fire resides in the north

Colours - Reds, Oranges, Yellow

Tools - Athame, Swords, Candles

Signs - Aries, Leo and Sagittarius
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Water

​Water is the element that affects the subconscious, emotions and dreams
 
You use this element when working with  
Purifying                               Emotions                            Stagnation               
Emotions                              Moods                                 Intuition
Healing                                 Fertility                               Fluidity in movement
Subconscious                       Movement                          Absorption
  
Water’s places are seas, lakes, rivers, marshes, wells, pools, areas where the land is rain-drenched and storms.

Direction - East
Living on the East Coast of Australia, very close to the beach to out East is the Ocean.  That beautiful ocean of ours, so it only makes sense that I connect with the element of water to the East

Colours - Blues, Greens, Aqua's

Ritual Tools - Shells, Water, Cups

Signs - Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces
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Spirit

The Fifth element is spirit, the most ethereal of all the elements
 
A connection of all knowledge pertaining to the material plane
 
The qualities of spirit are expressed through art, music, writing, religion, healing, magic and ritual.
 
Spirit colours are white and/or black, they are the colours that contain and reflect all other vibrations of light and dark. 
 
Spirit is everywhere and nowhere. 
 
A force that unites all things
 
A connection to the otherworld.
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