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



Arlan,
telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
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