ab:air.txt                                                      16jan90


                        Air


Maiden                          
Astrological Rulers: Jupiter, Mercury

Keys:   Life Principle, Intellect
        Raphael (instructor, traveller, healer)
Rules:  mind, essential qualities, spiritual plane, knowledge,
        abstract learning, theories, windy or high places, breath, speech
        Plegmatic; Thinking; weak inhibitory
Virtues: gregarious, diligent, optimistic, dexterity, joie-de-vivre, 
        persuasive, friendly, healthy, knowledgeable
Vices:  frivolity, boasting, absent mindedness, rootless, easily distracted, 
        loquacious, tends to intellectualize emotions (rather than experience 
        them)

Spring & sunrise
East, Eurus
Colour: yellow

Symbols: topaz, galbanum, aspen, frankincense, vervain, birds, eagle & hawk
Tools:  wand, censer (arrow stabs air & conveys message Outer to Inner)
Spirits: sylphs under Paralda (very hard to see & know, teach mind control 
        and how to level out your thinking processes)

Shortage: mind blank, shortness of breath, non-comprehension of known data
Excess: "gas bloat", inability to focus attention, "spacey" thoughts

Here follows the air 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 appear's to be Khaled's idea

