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elements: air.

by Lilah Wild @ freestylewitchcraft.com DIRECTION: East, the place of sunrise.

PRINCIPLE/DIVINE FORCE: Mind.

FORCES: Positive, active, electric.

ENERGY: Projective.

COLORS: Yellow(sunshine), sky blue, white, violet, gold.

SEASON: Spring, the time of freshness.

TIME: Dawn.

AGE: Birth.

GENDER/POLARITY: Masculine, Yang.

STATE OF MATTER: Gaseous.

SENSES: Smelling, hearing, thinking.

ALTAR TOOL: Incense.

TAROT SUIT: Daggers or Swords.

COURT CARDS: Kings, Princes.

PLAYING CARD: Ace of Spades.

ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius.

RITUAL FORMS: Throwing objects up into the air, dropping things from heights, suspending objects (like windchimes) in midair, fanning things, wind magick.

SYMBOLS: Incense smoke, feathers.

JEWELS: Topaz, chalcedony.

METALS: Mercury, tin, copper.

STONES: Light stones, like pumice. Transparent stones, like mica.

HERBS: Vines. Flowers that reach up, or are windswept(tall grasses). Very fragrant flowers. Pungent culinary herbs. Leaves and needles, the "lungs" of plants.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Flute, all wind instruments.

ELEMENTAL: Sylphs/zephyrs, rulers of knowledge and inspiration, attracted by oils and incense.

ELEMENTAL KING: Paralda.

ANIMALS: Birds, spiders, winged insects.

ARCHANGEL: Raphael.

CTHULHU MYTHOS: Hastur or Nyarlathotep.

HUMOR: Phlegm.

SABBATS: Candlemas (February 2) - combined with earth.
Spring Equinox (March 21).
Beltane (April 30) - combined with fire.

TRAITS: Mental, inventive, intelligent, quick, alert, cooperative, humane. Cold, aloof, imitative, nervous, superficial.

MEANINGS: Pattern, breath, intellect/mind. Heat, lightness, slight, obscurity, subtlety, movement(and excessive motion), free, wandering, flying, suspending.

RITUALS: Intellectualism, teaching, study, school, memory, tests, theorizing. Organizing and organizations. Groups of all kinds. Writing, communications. Freedom, travel. Recovering lost items, revealing lies. Drug addiction. Divination.

PLACES: Mountaintops, wind-swept plains, cloudy skies, high towers, airports, schools, libraries, offices, travel agencies, psychiatrists offices.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PIPE from John Fire Lame Deer
To us, the pipe is like an open Bible...For us Indians there is just the pipe, the earth we sit on and the open sky. The spirit is everywhere. Sometimes it shows itself through an animal, a bird, or some trees and hills. Sometimes it speaks from the Badlands, a stone, or even from the water. That smoke from the peace pipe, it goes straight up to the spirit world. But this is a two-way thing. Power flows down to us through that smoke, through the pipe stem. You feel that power as you hold your pipe; it moves from the pipe right into your body. It makes your hair stand up. that pipe is not just a thing; it is alive.

See: Scott Cunningham's Earth, Air, Fire and Water for a breakdown of the Four Winds.