Elemental and Tool Meditations
I put these two sets of meditation togeather, because it helps to do the Element, and it's corresponding tool meditations togeather. It helps you get used to the tool, it's purpose and the corresponding element, and how both the element and tool will play a critical role in your life.
I would usually do the element and then the tool meditation, and would do one set each week to help practice exercising my mind and learn all about my connection with the elements.
East and Athame meditation
South and Wand meditation
West and Chalice meditation
North meditation (sorry, the meditation for the pentacle requires illustrations...maybe included later on...very sorry again.
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East and Athame meditation
Air Meditation
Face East. Ground yourself. (If you don't know how to do this, click here to find out). Breath deep and be conscious of the air circulating in your lungs. Feel it as if it is the breath of the goddess, and take in the life force, inspiration, of the universe. Let your own breath merge with the winds, clouds, currents of the earth. Open your eyes and say "Hail, Arida, Bright Lady of the Air!"
Athame or Sword Meditation
Ground yourself. Hold your athame or sword in your strongest hand (hand you write with). Breath deeply and take in the power of the air, the power of the mind. The power of this is that of descrimination, of drawing lines, setting limits, making choices, and carrying them out. Remember choices you have made and carried through in spite of difficulties. Feel the power of your mind to influence others and the strength of your responsibility not to misuse that power. You have the force to act ethically, in accord with what you believe is right. Let the power of your intelligence, your knowledge, your moral courage flow into your tool.
South and Wand meditation
Fire Meditation
Face South. Ground yourself. Be conscious of the electric spark within each nerve as pulses jump from synapse to synapse. Be aware of the combustion within each vell, as food burns to release energy. Let your own fire become one with candle flame, bonfire, hearth fire, lightning, starlight, and sunlight, one with the bright spirit of the God and Goddess. Say "Hail, Tana, Goddess of Fire!"
Wand Meditation
Ground yourself. Hold your wand in your strongest hand. Breathe deeply, and feel the power of Fire, of energy. Be aware of yourself as a channel of energy. You can change spirit into matter, idea to reality. Feel your own power to create, to do, to be an agent of change. Be in tough with your will-your power to do what you must, to set a goal and work toward it. Let your will flow into your wand.
West and Chalice meditation
Water Meditation
Face West. Ground yourself. Feel the blood flowing the rivers of your veins, the liquid tides within each cell of your body. You are fluid, one drop congealed out of the primal ocean that is the womb of the Great Mother. Find the calms pools of tranquility within you, the rivers of feeling, the tides of power. Sink deep into the well of the inner mind, below consciousness. Say, "Hail Tiamat, Serpent of the Watery Abyss!"
Chalice Meditation
Ground yourself. Hold your cup/chalice in both hands, cradled. Breethe deep, and feel the power of Water, of feeling and emotion. Be in touch with the flow of your own emotions: love, anger, sorrow, joy. The cup is the symbol of nurturing, the overflowing breat of the Goddess that nourishes all life. Be aware of howyou are nurtured, of how your nurture others. The power to feel is the power to be human, to be real, to be whole. Let the strength of your emotions flood the cup.
North Meditation
Earth Meditation
Face North. Ground yourself. Feel your bones, you skeleton, the solidity of your body. Be aware of your flesh, of all that can be touched and felt. Feel the pull of gravity, yhour own weight, your attraction to the earth that is the body of the Goddess. You are a natural feature, a moving mountain. Merge with all that comes from the earth:grass, trees, flowers, animals, metals. Return to dust, to compost, to mud. Say "Hail, Belili, Mother of Mountains!"