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The Five Elements: Part 4 - Water

Water is the element of love and emotions, constantly active beneath the surface, influencing our moods and emotional responses. It purifies, heals, offers emotional release, and removes all that is stagnant. It is represented in the forms of pouring water over objects, brew making, healing spells, ritual bathing, and tossing objects into of water. Spells that benefit from this element are friendship spells, fertility spells, happiness spells, and relationship spells.

* Represents: emotions, absorption, subconscious, purification, eternal movement, wisdom, the soul, emotional aspects of love and femininity

* Gender: Feminine

* Direction: West

* Energy: Receptive

* Symbols: Ocean, river, shell, spring, lake, well, rain, fog, cup

* Pentagram Placement: Upper right

* Goddesses: Aphrodite, Isis, Marianne, Mari, Tiamat, Yemaha

* Gods: Dylan, Ea, Manannan, Osiris, Neptune, Poseidon

* Spirits: Undines, Nymphs, Mermaids, Fairies of ponds, lakes or streams

* Time: Twilight, dusk

* Cycle Of Life: Maturity

* Season: Autumn

* Zodiac: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

* Colors: Blue, turqoise, green, grey, indigo, black

* Sense: Taste

* Stones and Jewels: Aquamarine, amethyst, blue tourmaline, pearl, coral, blue topaz, fluorite

* Magick Tools: cup, cauldron, goblet, mirror

* Metals: Mercury, silver, copper

* Herbal: Ferns, lotus, mosses, bushes, water lilies, gardenia

* Trees: Apple, Apricot, Birch, Cherry, Elder, Elm, Rose, Willow

* Animals: Dragon, water snakes, dolphin, fish, cat, frog, turtle, swan, crab, sea mammals, sea birds

* Instruments: Anything resonant, harmonica, cymbals, a flute made from real reed or willow bark

* Type Of Magick: Mirror divinations, magnet work, love magick, lucid dreaming, cleansing, protection spells

* Ritual Actions: Bathing, dilution, washing, sprinkling, preparing cold herbal infusions

* Chant To Invoke:

"Here and now,

I evoke the elemental force of water

The fluid of infinite shapes and forms

Flowing source of adaptability, emotion, and life

I seek the pure spring

Within that I might drink deep of

Change, relationship, nourishment, and grace.

I call you forth to wash away

All that needlessly binds

And to move fluidly in this world.

Ocean and river

Ripple and rain

Water, I call thee hence."