Air

Types of magick -Recovering lost or stolen items, the four winds, visualization, concentration, education, travel, investigations, beginnings, feather magick

Tarot Minor Arcana suit - swords

Rules - mind, essential qualities, knowledge, abstract learning, theories, illumination, perception, analytic thought, communication, memory.

Virtues - gregarious, diligent, optimistic, dexterity, persuasive, friendly, healthy, knowledgeable, communicative, intelligent

Vices - frivolity, absent mindedness, rootless, easily distracted, tends to intellectualize emotions (rather than experience them), gossipy, boastful, untruthful, selfish, fickle

Shortage - mind blank, shortness of breath, non-comprehension of known data, muddy thinking; one who has difficulty transmitting thoughts and ideas

Excess - chatterbox, one who tends to intellectualize too much
Stage in the cycle of creation - the conception or perception of a new idea, the seed of knowledge, and the freedom to choose which direction to move.

Emotions – daydreaming, intense concentration on a difficult problem, an abstract appreciation of mathematical elegance, artistic skill, or superior craftsmanship; a sense of distance and detachment.

Zodiac: Libra - Cardinal - Fire of Air - Wind - swift onset (note idea of balance as in trade winds).
Aquarius - Fixed - Air of Air - Clouds - steady conveyors of water.
Gemini - Mutable - Water of Air - Vibrations - bulk unmoved, spiritualized to reflect mind.

The Cardinal sign represents the Birth of the Element, the Fixed sign its Life, and the Mutable sign its passing over towards the ideal form proper to it, i.e. to Spirit.

Air is one of the four classical elements of nature that form the basis for all life. Along with fire, it is considered to be a male element. In antiquity air was thought to be the essence of the soul. Ghosts were felt to be of the same substance as air. Thus they were invisible, but their presence could be felt like the wind. It is also believed that in death the soul departed the living body with the body’s last breath and entered the surrounding air.

    Some items associated with air are the cardinal direction east, intellect, energy, endeavor, sociability, squandering, frivolity, the color yellow, the metal silver, the wand (the witches tool) and the wand that represents one of the Tarot card suits. Air is a property which liberates and stimulates
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