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--- *************** * * * * ********* * * * * * * * ---------- -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