The Elements
| All hail the Guardians of
the Watchtower of the East, thou gentle sprites and airy slyphs, soaring eagle and sweet
butterfly, Morning Star, Master of the Eastern Dawn, be with us in laugher and in thought,
bring us the bracing dawn wind and memories of fragrant spring. I do summon. stir, and
call thee up. Come, be welcome in this our rite. Blessed Be! � |
| All hail the Guardians of
the Watchtower of the South, thou leaping salamaders and fiery ones, lion in passion and
dragon in power, phoenix arising pure and whole from the flames. Isis, Queen of the
Southern noontime, be with us in passion and in truth, bring us the warmth of the
hearthfire, and the summer sun, and the clear sight of noonday. I do summon, stir and call
you up. Come, be welcome in this our rite. Blessed Be! � |
| All hail the Guardians of
the Watchtoer of the West, thou deep dwelling undines and swift flowing naiads, loving
dolphin and hidden eel, Evening Star, Western Mother of the twilight, be with us in
feeling and in vision, in the evening tide's mystery and the updwelling autumn dreams. I
do summon, stir and call you up. Come, be welcome in this our rite. Blessed Be! � |
| All hail the Guardians of the Watchtower of the North, thou gnomes and dwarves of deep within the earth, and oreads of the mountain forest, bear slow and sure and bull of great strength, tunneling worms whose work insures life, Osiris, King of the Northern Nights and ruler of the Earth, here at the dwelling place of the gods, be with us in solid strength and permanence. I do summon, stir, and call you up. Come, be welcome in this our rite. Blessed Be! |
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The four
elements of magic are Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
Something to represent each of them is present in the Circle when a spell is cast.
This is usually:
salt - Earth����
incense - Air���
candles or lit incense - Fire����
water - Water���
THE ELEMENTS
Sacred to Shakti
There is more in this world than meets the eye, and Elementals fall into that category.
Have you ever been transfixed with fascination as you watched fire burning a building or a
forest? Have you ever stood on a high balcony or at the edge of a precipice and felt the
sudden, unaccountable urge to throw yourself from it? If so, you have experienced
something of the power of Elementals.
SPIRIT/ETHER
Some traditions count Spirit, or Ether, as a fifth element
COLOR: clear
INVOCATIONS:
Goddesses: Isis - Shekinah - the Great Goddess
Gods: Akasha - Shiva, Lord of Yoga - Siva
PLANT: almond tree in bloom - mastic incense - mistletoe
ANIMAL: Sphinx
EARTH
PLANET: Earth
DIRECTION: North
SEASON: Winter
TIME: Midnight
QUALITY: feminine
TOOL: pentacle
SYMBOL: globe - orb - rocks - cornucopia - soil
JEWEL: salt - rock crystal - agate - bloodstone - smoky quartz -
tiger's eye
ZODIAC: Taurus (Fixed Earth) - Virgo (Mutable Earth) - Capricorn
(Cardinal Earth)
COLOR: black - brown - green
RULES: life - birth - growth - nature - money - food - prosperity
- silence - wisdom - agriculture - creativity - canyons - caverns - chasms - rocks -
earthquakes - mountains - caves - metals - crystals - matter - stability - strength -
trees - bones - mountains - the body - physical reality - standing stones - the sense of
touch - the ability of life to sustain itself
FOR: money spells - rock magic - fertility
PLANT: barley - comfrey - grain - hops - ivy - maize (corn) -
licorice - millet - oak - oats - rice - rye - wheat
ANIMAL: bull - cow - bison - stag - earth-dwelling snakes
Anyone who doubts the power of Earth has never been in an earthquake or experienced
aftershocks.
INVOCATIONS: dryads - gnomes - hamadryads - the sidhe - sylvan
spirits - tree spirits
Goddesses:
agriculture goddesses - Anat - Anu - Artemis - Ceres - Coatlicue, the Serpent Lady -
Cybele - Mater - Dana - Danaan - Danu - Delphine - Demeter, Queen of the Fruitful Earth -
Durga - Erana - Estsanatlehi, Changing Woman - Eve, Mother of All Living, She Who Makes
Live - Fatua - Fauna - Flora - Gaea - Gaia, Mother of Life - grain goddesses - the Great
Goddess - the Great Mother - Hecate - Earth Mother - Inanna - Isis - Ki, the Great One -
Kore - Kundalini - Kybele - Maat Maia - Mala - Mama Pacha - Medea - Mother Nature -
Mud-Earth Lady - Nana - Nephthys - the Oreads - Pandora - Parvati - Persephone - Pomona -
Prthivi, Earth Mother - Prosperine - Rhea - Rhiannon - Sati - Semele - the Seven Mothers -
Sheela Na Gig - Sif - Sita - Sphinx -Tailtiu - Terra - Terra Mater - Tiamat -Tlazolteotl -
Gods:
Achilles - Adonis - Arawn - Ariel - Armaiti - Athos - Athtar, King of Earth - Atlas -
Attis - Atune - Baal, Lord of Earth - Bacchus - Cernunnos - Dagan - the Dagda - Dhara -
Dionysus Gabriel - Geb - the Green Man - Green Zeus - Hades - Hercules - Himalaya - Indra
- Keb - Marduk - Meilichios - Osiris, the Lord of Everlastingness - Pan Robin Hood - Seb -
Silenus - Tlaltecuhtli, the Lord of Earth - Tork - Uriel - Yahweh - Zeus
AIR
TIME: Dawn
SEASON: Spring
QUALITY: sanguine - masculine
DIRECTION: East
JEWEL: topaz
TOOL: athame - sword - censer
ZODIAC: Gemini (Mutable Air) - Libra (Cardinal Air) - Aquarius
(Fixed Air)
COLOR: pastels - white - clear - pale blue - bright yellow
SYMBOL: incense - feathers - balloons - bubbles - kites -
windmills
PLANT: anemone (windflower) - aspen - frankincense 0incense plants
- myrrh - pansy - poplar - primrose - vervain - violet - wall fern (polypody) - yarrow
ANIMAL: birds - insects - eagle - hawk
RULES: thoughts - ideas - flight - knowledge - wisdom - time -
wind - breath - learning - intuition - towers - aeries - incense - high and windy places -
the mind - the abstract - the mental plane - psychic work - the sense of smell
INVOCATIONS: djinn - fairies - wind spirits - sylphs - sprites
-The Keeper of Time
Goddesses:
Aerop� - Aphrodite - Aradia - Arianrhod, the Silver Wheel - Cybele - Delphine - Dia -
Hathor - Hera - Holy Spirit - Ilmatar - Iris - Lilith Maiden - Mist - Morgen - Mut - Nuit
- Nut, the Lady of Heaven, the Mighty One of Valor - Oya - the Star Goddess - Sphinx -
Urania, the Heavenly One
Gods:
Amun, the Invisible One - Anu - Ariel - Boreas - Gabriel - Horus - Indra - Jupiter -
Mercury - Michael - Notus - Orion - Pavana - Peron - Quetzalcoatl - Raka - Shu, the Dry -
White Texcatlipoca - Thoth - Uranus - Zephyr - Zephyrus - Zeus
For wind spells:
Boreas, for wind from the north - Eurus, for wind from the east - Notus, for wind from the
south - Zephyr, for wind from the west
To raise a wind, whistle three times in honor of the White Goddess.
| "blow blow little
breeze, and cool my face till my work is finished and I rest in my place" |
White clay whistles were used to summon winds in Majorca, Spain.
FIRE
"O! For a muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."
-Shakespeare
PLANET: Sun
SYMBOL: solar wheel (fire wheel, swastika) - candle
SEASON: Summer
TIME: Noon
DIRECTION: South
QUALITY: masculine
TOOL: censer - wand
JEWEL: fire opal - pyrite (firestone) - fire garnet
COLOR: red - gold - crimson - orange - white
ZODIAC: Aries (Cardinal Fire) - Leo (Fixed Fire) - Sagittarius
(Mutable Fire)
RULES: energy - activity - motivation - sight - love - quickening
- blood - sap - spirit - purification - heat - flames - lust - life - the power of will -
enthusiasm - passion - inspiration - transformation - vitality - sexuality - leadership -
combustion - healing - volcanos - destruction - brush fires - authority - metalwork -
incandescence - deserts - eruptions - explosions - anger - the masculine
FOR: purification - fire spells - sex magic - healing, to destroy
disease - candle magic
PLANTS: alder - almond tree in bloom - fire thorn - flame tree -
frankincense - garlic - hibiscus - mustard - nettles - onion - hot peppers - red poppy -
rose
ANIMALS: phoenix - salamander - lion - snake - fire-breathing
dragons - horses, when their hooves strike sparks
INVOCATIONS: djinn - the Manes - Salamander
Goddesses:
Anasazi - Astarte - Bast - Bastet - Bride - Brighid, Lady of the Hearth - Brigid - Brigit,
the High One - Coyolxauhqui, Golden Bells - Fuji - Hestia - Ishtar - Kali - Minerva
Belisima - Pele - Pyrrha, the Red One - Sekhmet - St. Brigit - Ubastet - Vesta, the
Shining One
Invoke fire goddesses by throwing salt into flames
Gods:
Ariel - Baal - Bel - Hephaestus - Horus, the Mighty One of Transformations - Michael -
Prometheus, who stole fire - Raphael - Salamander - Seraph - Shiva, the Great Lord Siva -
Surya - Uriel, Flame of God - Vishnu, the All-Pervading - Vulcan - Will-o' the Wisp -
Xango
Fire of Azrael, used to see into the past or into past lives, is kindled of cedar, juniper
and sandalwood.
The ancient fire festivals were sun charms. A burning fire wheel represents the course of
the sun through the sky. Midsummer fire was considered the fire of heaven.
In Ireland, coals from the bonfires of the fire festivals were carried into the grain
fields as a charm against blight.
WATER
PLANET: Moon - Neptune
DIRECTION: West
COLOR: blue - black - green
QUALITY: feminine
TIME: twilight
TOOL: chalice
ZODIAC: Cancer (Cardinal Water) - Scorpio (Fixed Water) - Pisces
(Mutable Water)
JEWEL: coral - mother-of-pearl - pearl
SYMBOL: goblet - dowsing rod - wave
RULES: emotions - fertility - sensuality - intuition - sorrow -
compassion - receptivity - feelings - tides - love - ecstasy - courage - mystery - daring
- oceans, rivers, streams, springs, wells, lakes, waterfalls, ponds and pools - marine
life - psychic ability - the feminine - the sense of taste - the unconscious - the
subconscious - the womb - blood
Pooled water represents the occult realm
It is said that magick, magicians and witches cannot cross running water. I haven't found
this to be true.
PLANTS: aquatic plants - ferns - fungi - lotus - moss - myrrh
incense - reeds - rushes - seaweed - watercress - water lily - willow
ANIMAL: amphibians - fish - marine life - marine mammals - water-dwelling snakes - whales
FOR: healing - purification - psychic work - fertility - rain
INVOCATIONS: mermaids/mermen - Kelpie - undines
Goddesses:
Amathaon - Amphitrite, Goddess of Salt Waters - Andromeda - Artemis - Astarte - Brahmi -
Brigantia - Cerridwen - Ceto - Chalchihuitlcue, Precious Green Lady - Deva - Hydra -
Ishtar - Isis - Lady of the Lake - Leucothea, who saves sailors from shipwreck - Leviathan
- Mari - Maria - Marica - Mariamne, the Sea Lamb - Marian - Marina - Minerva, for
navigation - Miria, the Wonderful - Miriam, Sea Brine - Myrrha - the Naiads - the Nereids
- the Oceanids - Prithivi - Sabrina - Sarasvati, Flowing Water - Sati - Sedna - the sirens
- Stella Maris, Star of the Sea - Sul - Tefnut, Dew of Dawn, Goddess of Moisture - Thetis
- Ti'amat - Yemaja - Yemaya, Mother of the Fishes - Yemonja - Zeuxippe
Gods:
Aegir - Akelos - Amaunet - Amun - Ariel - Azariel - Ba'al - Gabriel - Ganymede - Great
Rainbow Snake - Kelpie - Lear - Leir - Lir - Llyr - Llud - Ludd - Manann�n Mac Lir -
Manawyddan ap Llyr - Mannan mac Lir - Mbongo - Michael - Neptune - Nereus, the Old Man of
the Sea - Njord - Ocean - Oceanus - Ogir - Osiris of the Mysteries, who springs from the
returning waters - Poseidon - Proteus - Ptah - Raphael - Thoth, Cleaner of Earth -
Tiberinus - Triton - Typhon
For: rain:
Invoke:
the Hyades, Rain Makers - Inanna - Iuturna, to end drought - Libya, Dripping Rain - Tefnut
- Yemana, Holy Queen - Frey, God of Rain - Indra - Lung-Wang, the Dragon Kings - Tlaloc
Plant: cotton - ferns - rice - toadstools
Sympathetic magic (imitation) is used to make rain. This can take many forms, such as
beating two things together to mimic thunder. Hercules rattled his club in a hollow tree,
or stirred a pool with an oak branch to make rain.
The Danaids, priestesses of Demeter at Argos, made rain by pouring water through a vessel
with holes in it.
sea rituals:
Invoke: ocean deities
Plant: ash - frankincense - sea kelp