Element Magick
This magick used the five elements, as working Witches understand them :
Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit. The pentacle is used here
as the sacred symbol of commanding the elements and should appear prominently,
either in your mind or on your altar when working with any of the elements.
The magick of body, mind, and spirit are tied to both the pentacle and the
energies it commands. All must be pure and working in unison for the
operation to succeed. Element magick can be physical or mental.
For example, in POW Wow, the element of fire is represented by
a healing stone one would acquire for one self. Once cleansed, consecrated,
and empowered, the candle flame and the energies it represents are instilled
into the stone. No actual fire need be available when you are working
with the Divinity stone. It is now the Divine representation of the element
of Fire in its healing form. Some working witches argue that the pentacle
is ceremonial in nature, and is not needed in the art of the Craft. The use
of the star, however, dates back beyond Christianity, to the time of the stellar
cults. Stars were also prominent in Egyptian magick. Stars symbolize
sacred or celestial Fire, and can be associated with the Craft need fires and
balefires (the representation of stars on earth therefore melding the energies
of earth and heaven together: heaven being the fire, earth being the wood used
to feed the fire and sacred breath, oxygen, to grant continuance to both).
If you are Uncomfortable with the star, it is okay. Try the trickle instead,
which has a compendium of meanings, including the three faces of the mother.
The three faces of the father or the three stars that collided to create our
Universe. There are many more associations. If you do some research
and discover them for yourself. You will not be Disappointed.
Some information in this text is used from Silver RavenWolf's "To Stir a Magick Cauldron"
and Some of the rest is words of my own.
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