| Developing the Elements ex |
| Developing the Element exercise The elements in your life 1: A Wiccan altar usually has symbols of all four elements on it, but there may be times in your life when you need to encourage the energy of one particular element into your life. 2: One way of doing this is to make an altar for the element that is lacking in your life. If you lack energy and are timid and unconfident, make a Fire altar. Use a red altar cloth, red flowers, a red-leafed potted plant, berries, red candles. To represent earth, find a piece of red sandstone or other red rock.. Use a bowl of red glass for your water. For Air burn an incense that seems hot and fiery. Place some tarot cards from the suite of wands on the altar if you have them. 3 : Having set up your altar, light the candles and incense.. Sit in front of the altar and meditate on how and where you can bring the Fire into your life. Ask the powers of Fire to help you use them wisely and well in their appropriate place, but not in excess. Spend some time every day for a week meditating upon Fire. 4: In the second week, take the fire energy into your everyday life. Put something from your altar in your work place such as the red rock or your pot plant. Wear something red when you need to display your fire energy, get used to using a read pen (I always use a red pen in mathematics). All theses are simple things but they are working on the age-old magical principle of sympathetic magic. 5: Similarly, if you need to display more love and sympathy, make a Water altar. If you need to sharpen your thinking use Air. To bring stability, inner strength and peace into your life, work with the element of Earth. For a Water altar, you could find a piece of cloth which seemed in color and texture to be watery. You could add bowls of water in glass of watery shades and you could float a candle in one, a flower on another. You could add shells. For Air you could use light colors of the sky, and feathers. For Earth, you need the colors of the Earth and of green and growing things. |