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Element of Air
In Wicca, the Elements generally play a role in ritual and magic, if not spirituality on the whole. Everything is represented by one or more of the five Elements: Air, Earth, Fire, Water and Aether (sometimes called Spirit, or Akasha).
In the first article of this series on Wicca and the Elements, I introduced the concept of Elements as a whole. In this article I will discuss the Element of Air, with an extended list of correspondences.
Please keep in mind that correspondences can vary from tradition to tradition, from person to person. Though there are more similarities than differences, never take any list of Elemental correspondences as written law.
Element of Air
Cool, windy mountaintops have long been a symbol for the Element of Air.
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Alchemical Symbol for Air
The Element of Air:
Gender: Masculine
Charge: Positive
Energy: Active
Qualities: abstract; ethereal
Aspects: analytical thought; rational mind; travel; communication
Attributes:
Positive: witty, intelligent, communicative, inquisitive, inventive, literary, social, idealist, clarity of thought, rational, technical, scientific, logical
Negative: aloof, cold, dispassionate, eccentric, scattered, unfocused, ambivalent, indecisive, deceptive, untrustworthy.
The Invisible Element
The invisible Element of night, where the cold winds blow from the north over the mountains; the time of life when our spirits are like a breath of wind.
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Aligned With:
Day of the Week: Wednesday
Direction: North
Locations: Mountain tops, sky, clouds
Sabbats: Samhain, Yule
Time of day: Night
Time of Life: Death through Rebirth
Time of the year: Winter
Wind: Boreas
Witch’s Pyramid: To Know
Air is
The breath, inhaling and exhaling; there are many things you can survive without-- but without air we'd be dead in minutes.
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Ruling over:
Body parts: brains, nervous system, lungs
Bodily functions: breathing, thinking, speaking, singing, coughing, whistling, belching, flatulating
Colors: yellow, white, sky blue, midnight blue, shades of gray
Incense: sandalwood, storax, mastic
Instruments: woodwinds, bagpipes
Careers: accounting, acting, advertising, executive, astronaut, computer programmer or technician, con artist, gambling, judge, lawyer, mathematician, public speaker, sales, most kinds of sciences, singing, teaching, writing.
Sense: Smell
Knight of Swords
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Corresponding to:
Herbs: Acacia, almond, anise, benzoin, bergamot, bistort, bittersweet, borage, bromeliad, broom, caraway, chicory, citron, clover, dandelion, elecampane, endive, eyebright, fenugreek, goat’s rue, hazel, hops, houseleek, lavender, lily, linden, mace, male fern, maple, marjoram, mastic, meadowsweet, mint, mistletoe, palm, papyrus, parsley, pine, pistachio, rice, sage, saffron, slippery elm, wormwood
Metals: mercury, aluminum
Minerals & Gems: agates, aventurine, amethyst, jasper, mica, pumice
Runes: ANSUZ, RAIDO, EIWAZ, ALGIZ, TIR, MANNAZ
Tarot: Suit of swords, knights, The Fool, The Magician, The Lovers, The Hermit, Hanged Man, Justice, The Star
Wiccan tools: knives (athame, bolline)/swords, censer, incense
Zodiac: Gemini: (mutable); Libra (cardinal); Aquarius (fixed)
Creatures of Air
Creatures of Air
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Associated With:
Animals: birds, flying insects, spiders, bats, foxes, primates
Elemental Beings: Sylphs, fairies, djinn
Gods: Allah, Amergin, Anu, Apollo, Ascepius, Baal, Buddha, Ganesha, Hermes, Jupiter, Mercury, Odin, Thoth, Tyr, Uranus, YHWH, Zeus
Goddesses: Arachne, Arianrhod, Athena, Ishtar, Juno, Ma’at, Minerva, Mnemosyne, Morrigan, Muses, Mt, Neith, Nike, Nuit, Sarasvati
Mythical Creatures: Gryphons, Harpies, Hippogrifs, Pegasus, Sphinx
Pentagrams
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