WATER ELEMENT

ELEMENT OF WATER

Element of absorption & germination.

Brings love, contentment, spirituality, psychism, & a sense of family unity to the home.

Purification, subconcious mind, love & emotions.

Magick involves pleasure, friendship, marriage, fertility, happiness, healing, sleeping, dreaming, psychic acts, & beauty

Feminine

Color is blue of the deep water

Rules the west

Autumn is the season when rain showers wash the earth

West wind

Governs sea, ice, rain, snow, fog, mirror & magnet magick.

Basic nature - flowing, purifying, healing, soothing & loving

Energy is receptive

Places - lakes, springs, streams, rivers, beaches, oceans, wells, swimming pools, bathtubs, showers, bedrooms (for sleep), health spas, steam rooms, fountains

Stones - transparent or translucent, amethyst & aquamarine, blue as in blue tourmaline.

Herbs - aqautic such as water lillies & sea weed, fleshy as in succulents, & lettuce; loving as in rose & gardenia; generally flowers

Metals - mercury (quicksilver) silver & copper

Musical Instruments - cymbals, bells all resonant metals.

Creatures - cat, frog, turtle, dolphin, whale, otter, seal, most fish & shellfish

Time - Dusk

Magicakl tools - cup & the cauldron

Point in Life - maturity

Astrological signs - cancer, scorpio, pisces

Sense - taste

Natural symbols - shells, a cup of water, quartz crystal

Rituals - purification, love, psychic awareness, dreams, sleep, peace, marriage, friendship

Ritual Forms - dilution, placing into water, washing away, bathing

WATER

Color:  Blue

Season:  Autumn

Element:  Feminine

Direction:  West