The New Generation of Witches of West End

The Elements

The Elements

Earth is all the treasures buried deep within the soul. It is the material things you long for and were told you shouldn't have. It is the security of that which is solid and immovable, and it is "manifestation" into the real world of touch and taste and smell and sight.

Air is the soft breeze on your face that makes you feel touched and not touched. It is thought brought alive and moved through space and time by the Divine. Air is the part of your mind that is clear and sharp and focused and ever changing, never still and never content, but always swept up within another breeze and moved along on the current of time.

Fire is that physical passion so burning that it can consume. It is enthusiasm so powerful that it is what drives you to succeed. Fire is that fiery will that doesn't allow you to give up in the face of adversity. It is what draws lovers together across insurmountable odds and provokes the passion that fights endlessly for justice.

Water is the mist of yesterday and today and tomorrow all wrapped up into one magical moment. Water is dreams and visions and questing endlessly to know the unknown. It is divination-- searching for answers and listening to the universe for its response. It is the mystical and the elusive...it slips through your fingers leaving you wet and cold and shivering, knowing that you have been touched by the Divine.

  Elemental Correspondences

Earth 

Energy: feminine/receptive

Correspondences for Earth

Direction: North

Color: green

Elemental: gnomes

Season: winter

Time of Day: midnight

Ritual Tools: pentacles and salt

Tarot: pentacles

Zodiac: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Angel: Uriel

Hermetic Axiom: "To Know"

Zodiac: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Earth Energy

You will use the energy of Earth when you wish to manifest those things in your life that smack of the material-- money, possessions, or changes of circumstances in life that will lead to the acquisition of these things.

Where the cry of Christianity proclaims that a saintly pursuit of poverty and a Spartan life style leads to spiritual fulfillment and enlightenment, the witch knows that she was put upon this earth to experience all of it to the best of her ability, to enjoy that which surrounds her, to obtain that which she deserves, to wallow in the miracle of the physical world.

The witch indulges herself with no trace of Christian guilt, for she knows she is "of the earth", and so she freely uses the natural energy of this element.

Using Earth in Spells

You can incorporate the use of the element Earth in your spells by burying the remnants of your spell work-- candle wax, ashes, ribbons, poppets, bottles, etc., in the earth itself-- on your property for positive receptive magic and off your property for negative projective magic.

You can place a symbol of the pentacle on or near your front door for protection. Wear a silver pentacle pendent for protection, as well as for a sign of devotion to your religion and your god/goddess; or wear a stone aligned with the energy of Earth for a particular intention.