I admit, I stick to the classical elements in the classical
directions:
Air – the eastern direction, mind and intellect, sylphs
Fire – the southern direction, will and strength,
salamanders
Water – the western direction, emotions, undines
Earth – the northern direction, material things and
prosperity, gnomes
I call them in a circle, beginning in the east and going
clockwise. I release them beginning in the east and going counterclockwise.
Spirit, of course, is in the middle, so I visualize this as a winding or
unwinding spiral.
I’ve built a garden in my backyard that corresponds to the
directions, with plants that correspond to each direction. There’s a flat rock
I unearthed in the middle that I use as an altar.
It throws me for a loop when I’m in ceremony with one of my
teachers who uses the correspondences in the Native American tradition. In her
tradition, there are two axes: the masculine axis, which is about air (west)
and fire (east); and the feminine axis, which is about water (south) and earth
(north).
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