Elemental Correspondences - Air

 

For: Psychic Work

PLANET: Mercury, Jupiter

TIME: dawn

SEASON: Spring

QUALITY: contemplative, sanguine, masculine

DIRECTION: East

JEWEL: topaz

TOOL: athame, sword, censer

ZODIAC: Gemini (Mutable Air), Libra (Cardinal Air), Aquarius (Fixed Air)

COLOR: pastels, white, clear, pale blue, bright yellow

INCENSE: frankincense, fumitory, galibanum, myrrh

SYMBOL: incense, feathers, balloons, bubbles, kites, windmills, sails, fans

PLANT: anemone (windflower), aspen, bodh tree, epiphytic plants (such as bird's nest fern), plants and trees that provide incense, pansy, poplar, primrose, vervain, violet, wall fern (poly- pody), yarrow

ANIMAL: bird, insect, eagle, hawk, sphinx

RULES: thoughts, ideas, flight, knowledge, wind, intellect, breath, learning, intuition, towers, aeries, high and windy places, the mind, the abstract, the mental plane, the sense of smell

INVOCATIONS: fairies, the lilitu (wind spirits), sylphs, sprites, undines, wind god/desses

 

Goddesses:

Aditi (the Unfettered), Aerope, Aphrodite, Aradia, Arianrhod, Cardea (Queen of Winds), Cybele, Hathor, Hera, Iris, Lilith, Maman Brigette, Mary, Nut, Oya, Semiramis, Urania (Queen of Winds)

 

Gods:

Aether, Anu, Ariel, Baal (Rider of the Clouds), Boreas, Enlil (Lord Wind), Favonius, Gabriel, Haddad, Horus, Hurakan, Indra, Jupiter, Khepera-Marduk, Mercury, Michael, Mithras, Njoerd (Lord of Fair Winds), Orion, Quetzalcoatl, Thoth, Typhon (Lord of Destructive Winds), Uranus, Yahweh, Zephyrus, Zeus

 

WIND SPELLS: Important in the ancient world, when ships depended on their sails for power. To raise a wind, people whistled three times in honor of the White Goddess. White clay whistles were used to summon winds in Majorca, Spain.