EARTH ELEMENT

ELEMENT OF EARTH

Foundation of the elements, realm of abundance, prosperity, & wealth.

Business, money, employment, prosperity in all forms, stability, fertility, & grounding.

Feminine - nurturing, moist, & fruitful

Rules the North because of great darkness

Green Color of fields & plants

Winter is the season

Governs stone, image, tree & knot magick

North Wind - (to release) jealousy

Basic Nature - fertile, moist, nurturing, stabilizing, grounding, & gravity too

Energy - receptive

Stones - heavy or opaque, as in coal, green as in emerald & peridot

Metals - iron & lead

Musical Instruments - drum, all percussion instruments

Creatures - dog, horse, earthworms, gopher, ant, cow, burrowing animals

Time - Dawn

Magickal Tool - Pentacle

Point in Life - Advanced Age

Herbs - earth smelling plants, such as patchouly & vertivert, mosses & lichens, nuts, dry & stiff plants, generally roots.

Astrological Signs - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Sense - Touch

Natural Symbols - salt, clay dish of soil, rocks, sheaves of wheat, acorns

Ritual Forms - burying, planting, making images in soil or sand.

EARTH

Color: Green

Season: Winter

Element:  Feminine

Direction:  North