THE ELEMENTS

Earth (Feminine)

Direction: North.
Rules: the body, growth, nature, sustenance, material gain, creativity, birth, death, silence, chasms, caves, caverns, groves, fields, rocks, standing stones, mountains, crystals, jewels, metal, stability, the Mother Goddess, fertility, dance, motherly, love, planting, harvesting, home, pets, forests, and all plants.
Time: Midnight.
Season: Spring or Winter.
Colours: green, black, brown and white.
Signs of the Zodiac: Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.
Tools: pentacle, disk, earth, salt, stones, wood, cauldron, shield, Wheel.
Sense: Touch.
Jewel: Rock Crystal, salt (Bloodstone, Emerald)
Incense: Storax.
Plants: comfrey, ivy, grains, roses, shamrocks and all other plants.
Tree: Oak.
Animals: cow or bull, bison, stag, wolf, bear, dog, sow, and deer.
Elemental: Gnome.
Goddesses: Diana, Don, Ceres, Demeter, Gaea, Mah, Nepthys, Prythiviv, Rhea, and Rhiannan.
Gods: Adonis, Athos, Arawn, Cernunnos, Dionysus, Marduk, Pan, and Tammuz.

Fire (Masculine)

Direction: South.
Rules: energy, spirit, heat, flame, blood, sap, life, will, healing, destroying, purification, bonfires, hearth fires, candle flames, sun, deserts, volcanoes, eruptions, explosions, stars, passion, lust, rage, envy, justice, transformation, protection, exorcism, banishing, sex, sex magick, work, divination, masculine power, the God, strength.
Time: Noon.
Season: Summer.
Colours: red, gold, crimson, orange, white.
Signs of the Zodiac: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.
Tools: sword, athame, wand, spear, candle.
Sense: Sight.
Jewel: Fire Opal (Garnet, Ruby)
Incense: Olibanum.
Plants: garlic, hibiscus, mustard, nettle, onion, red peppers, red poppies, sunflower.
Tree: Almond, in flower.
Animals: fire breathing dragons, lions, horses, snakes, crows, ravens serpents, salamanders, lizards.
Elemental: Salamanders.
Goddesses: Brigit, Hestia Pele, Veste and The Morrigan, the Warrioress, or fourth face.
Gods: Angi, Hephaestus, Horus, Vuca and Lugh.



Water (Feminine)

Direction: West.
Rules: emotions, feelings, love, courage, daring, sorrow, the ocean, the tides, lakes, pools, streams, rivers, springs, wells, intuition, the unconscious mind, the womb, generation, fertility, death, dreams, psychicism, children, pregnancy, inner transformation, past lives, purification, new beginnings.
Time: Twilight.
Season: Winter or Spring.
Colours: blue, blue-green, green grey, indigo, black, aquamarine, teal, violet.
Signs of the Zodiac: Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.
Tools: cup, chalice, cauldron, bowl, pitcher.
Sense: Taste.
Jewel: Aquamarine.
Incense: Myrrh.
Plants: ferns, lotus, mosses, rushes, seaweed, water lilies, all water plants, weeping willows, pussy willow.
Tree: Willow.
Animals: water dragons, dolphins, porpoises, whales, fish, cats, tigers, seals, and sea mammals, water dwelling snakes, all sea creatures and sea birds.
Elemental: Undine.
Goddesses: Aphrodite, Isis, Mariamne, Mari, Tiamat, Cerridwyn, and the Crone.
Gods: Dylan, Ea, Llyr, Manannan, Osiris, Neptune, and Poseidon


Air (Masculine)

Direction: East.
Rules: the mind, all mental, intuitive, psychic work, knowledge, abstract learning, theory, windswept hills, plains, windy beaches, high mountain peaks, high towers, wind, breath, weather magick, power raising, unpredictability, astral travel, feathers, mobility.
Time: Dawn.
Season: Autumn.
Colours: bright yellow, crimson, blue, grey, white.
Signs of the Zodiac: Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.
Tools: wand, censer, sword, athame, besom.
Sense: Smell.
Jewel: Topaz (Quartz, Diamond)
Incense: Frankincense.
Plants: Myrrh, pansy, primrose, vervain, violet, yarrow, clover.
Tree: Aspen.
Animals: birds, butterflies, dragonflies.
Elemental: Sylph.
Goddesses: Aradia, Arainhod, Cardea, Nuit, Urania, and the Madien.
Gods: Enlil, Khepera, Mercury, Shu, Thoth, Dagda

Spirit (neither and both)

Direction: centre and circumference, throughout and about.
Rules: transcendence, transformation, change, everywhere, nowhere, within, without, the void, eminence, the soul, magick, spirituality, the divine, union, eternity, infinity and lightning.
Time: Beyond all time.
Season: The turning Wheel.
Colours: clear, white, black, silver, gold.
Tools: the cauldron and the Wheel.
Sense: Hearing (the sixth sense or ESP)
Plants: Mistletoe.
Tree: Flowering almond.
Animals: sphinx, serpent, faeries, phoenix
Goddesses: Isis, the Triple Goddess, the secret name, Shekinah.
Gods: Akasha, Iao, JHVH.