ab:earth.txt                                                    16jan90


                        Earth


Crone                           
Astrological Rulers: Venus, Saturn

Keys:   Law Principle, Solidity
        Auriel ("Lord of Awe")
Rules:  birth & death, body, growth, nature, stones & metals, material things, 
        caves, chasms, silence, graves, fields
        Sanguine; Sensation; calm, imperturbable
Virtues: strength, endurance, commitment, responsibility, thoroughness, 
        practicality, wisdom, patience, sense of timing
Vices:  dullness, lack of conscience, melancholy, boredom, inertia, stagnation, 
        hoarding of resources (including information)

Yule & midnight
North, Boreas
Colour: green

Symbols: oak, rock crystal, salt, bull or cow, stag, grains, comfrey, ivy
Tools:  pentacle, altar stone (body of Anima Mundi)
Spirits: gnomes under Gob (friendly & easy to reach, teach access to own depths 
        & caverns & how to mine & work the vein of gold therein)

Shortage: spaciness, hyper-activity, instability
Excess: body heaviness, general lack of energy, inertia, etc.

Here follows the earth symbol, drawn (badly) in ascii---


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-various sources including June Johns' "King of the Witches" (appendix),
 Starhawk's "Spiral Dance", Ellen Cannon Reed's "Witches Qabala" and a
 lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by Church of the Seven Arrows.
-putting elemental notes into the BOS (instead of in a Grimoire or in a set 
 of teaching notes) also appears to be Khaled's idea

