Elemental Correspondences

[artemis]

Element of Air


Maiden


Astrological Rulers: Jupiter, Mercury
Keys: Life principle, Intellect, Raphael (instructor, traveller, healer)
Rules: mind, essential qualities, spiritual plane, knowledge, abstract learning, theories, windy or high places, breath, 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 intellectualise emotions (rather than experience them)

Spring & sunrise
East, Eurus
Colour: yellow

Symbols: topaz, galbanum, aspen, frankincense, vervain, birds, eagle & hawk
Tools: wand, censer (arrow stabs air and conveys message Outer to Inner)
Spirits: sylphs under Paralda (very hard to see and 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.

[artemis]

Element of 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, imperturable
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 and midnight
North, Boreas
Colour: green

Symbols: oaks, rock crystal, salt, bull or cow, stag, grains, comfrey, ivy
Tools: pentacle, altar stone (body of Anima Mundi)
Spirits: gnomes under God (friendly & easy to reach, teach access to own depths and caverns & how to mind & work the vein of gold therein)
Shortage: spaciness, hyper-activity, instability
Excess: body heaviness, general lack of energy, intertia, etc.

[artemis]

Element of 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: courages, self-assertive, chivalrous, enthusiastic, passionate, experienced, virile
Vices: self-centred, 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
Spirits: salamanders under Djinn (elusive & hostile, teaach power over fire and energy)
Shortage: body heavy or chilled, thoughts drag-gy, unenthusiastic
Excess: hot, hyper, flitting thoughts, insomnia, anger, snappishness

[artemis]

Element of 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, tranqulility, tenderness, forgiveness, modesty, fluidity i ncreativity, 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
Tools: cup
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