Air

The element of air is associated with mental processes and the mind. It is creative and is that which causes magickal intentions to become manifest. I is also associated with higher conciousness and wisdom, divination, and purification.

 

Direction: East

Astrological Signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

Rules: Mind, mental and psychic work, intuition, knowledge, abstract thought, wind, breath, clouds, inspiration, hearing, herbal knowledge, plant growth, purification, freedom, revealing truth, finding lost things, instruction, telepathy, memory, learning the secrets of the dead, zen meditation, new beginnings, illuminations.

Types of magick: Divination, concentration, prophecy, visualization, wind magick

Colours: White, yellow, light blue, lavender, grey

Season: Spring

Magickal Tools: Athame, sword, censer, incense

Time: Dawn

Energy: Projective

Gemstones: Aventurine, topaz, mica, flourite, crystals, amethyst, yellow or blue stones

Metals: Tin, copper

Plants: Acacia, anemone(wind flower), anise, aspen, benzoin, bodh tree, clover, dill, frankencense, lavender, lemongrass, myrrh, pansey, poplar, pine, primrose, vervain, violet, wall fern(polypody), yarrow

Animals: Birds, insects, spiders, Spinx

Symbol: Insence, feathers, balloons, bubbles, kites, windmills, sails, fans.

Invocations: faeries, the lilitu-wind spirits, sylphs, sprites, undines, wind god/desses

Goddesses: Aditi-the Unfettered, Aerope, Aphrodite, Aradia, Arianrhod, Cardea-Queen of Winds, Cybele, Hathor, Hera, Iris, Lilith, Maman Brigette, mary, Nut, Oya, Semiramis, Urana-Queen of Winds

Gods: Aether, Anu, Ariel, Baal-Rider of the Clouds, Boreas, Enlil, Lord Wind Favonius, Gabriel, Haddad, Horus, Hurakan, Indra, jupiter, Khepera, Marduk, Mercury, Micheal, Mithras, Njord-Lord of the Winds(fair winds), Orion, Quetzalcoatl, Thoth, Typhon(destructive winds), Uranus, Yao, Zephyrus, Zeus

"To raise a wind, whistle three times in honor of the White Goddess. White clay whistles were used to summon winds in Majorca, Spain."(Eileen Holland-The Wiccan Handbook)

 

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