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elements: earth.

by Lilah Wild @ freestylewitchcraft.com DIRECTION: North.

PRINCIPLE/DIVINE FORCE. The physical body, gravity, law.

FORCES: Negative, passive, magnetic.

ENERGY: Receptive.

COLORS: Black, olive, citrine, russet, green (living plants).

SEASON: Winter, the time of darkness.

TIME: Midnight.

AGE: Old age, Death.

GENDER/POLARITY: Feminine, Yin.

STATE OF MATTER: Solid.

SENSES: Touch, sensation.

ALTAR TOOL: Pentacle.

TAROT SUIT: Pentacles.

COURT CARDS: Pages, Princesses.

PLAYING CARD: Ace of Diamonds.

ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn.

RITUAL FORMS: Gardening and herbal magick, trees, magnets, stones, knots and bindings, burying an object representing your need in the earth, fashioning images in clay or drawing them in soil or sand, charm bags.

SYMBOLS: Herbs, houseplants, cactuses, acorns, pentagrams, powders, sand, soil, salt, clay, stones.

JEWELS: Quartz.

METAL: Lead, iron.

STONES: Heavy and opaque, as in coal. Green, as in emeralds or periodot.

HERBS: Mosses, ferns, lichens, plants. Low, shade-seeking flowers. Trees, barks. The foods they bring forth: grains, apples, nuts, roots, berries, seeds, mushrooms.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Drums, all percussion instruments.

ELEMENTAL: Gnomes and trolls, the rulers of treasure, attracted by salts and powders.

ELEMENTAL KING: Gob.

ARCHANGEL: Uriel.

CTHULHU MYTHOS: Shub-Niggurath.

HUMOR: Melancholy.

SABBATS: Samhain (October 31) - combined with water.
Winter Solstice (December 21)
Candlemas (February 2) - combined with air.

TRAITS: Providing necessities, grounded, good sense of timing, self-aware, understands emotions, passive, patient, malleable, stable, solid, dependable. Miserly, controlling, coarse, no empathy, ignorant, stubborn.

MEANINGS: Substance and sustenance, malleability, body, endurance, survival, growth, practicality. Fertile, moist, nurturing and nourishing. Dry and cool, or heavy and slow. Absorbing, grounding, solidity and stability. Rest.

RITUALS: Money, prosperity, abundance. Stability, grounding. Fertility.
Agriculture, ecology, conservation. Jobs, promotions, business, investments. Foundations, construction. The home, paying bills. Material objects, the physical world. Daily necessities such as food and clothing. Finding an apartment. Health foods. Antiques. Old age. Breaking alcoholism. Protecting animals. Releasing jealousy.

PLACES: Caves, canyons, chasms. Forests, groves, valleys, fields. Mines, holes. Farms, arboretums, parks, plants, nurseries, farmers markets. Kitchens, basements, baby nurseries. The stock market. Museums, buildings.

See Paul Huson's Mastering Witchcraft for properties of metals.