#learn about the elements | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

andrea-cliffe · 2 years

Text

Elements in Witchcraft

There are four concrete elements in modern witchcraft. Earth, air, fire, and water. It is heavily debated if there is a fifth element, spirit. Because of this, I will not include spirit. In this post, I will talk about each element’s correspondences, tools, virtues, astrological signs, and much more.

Earth

Earth is the first element I will write about. This element keeps you grounded and energized. In order to connect with Earth, it is advised to spend more time in nature, garden, keep plants in your home, and practice grounding and meditation.

Direction: North

Time: Midnight

Season: Winter

Colors: Greens, Browns, and Other Earthy Tones

Tools: The Pentacle, Salt, Dirt, Wood, Plants, and Flowers

Crystals/Minerals: Emerald, Tourmaline, Granite, Bedrock, Jasper, Peridot, Amethyst, Iron, and Lead

Herbs/Plants: Cedar, Cypress, Magnolia, Primrose, Sage, Oak, and Ivy

Astrological Signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Virtues: Staying Grounded, Patience, Truth, and Reliability

Air

Air will be the second element I talk about. This element helps you to keep a clear mind and find inner wisdom. In order to connect with Air, it is advised you feel the breeze, hang wind chimes, start a creative project, and journal.

Direction: East

Time: Dawn

Season: Spring

Colors: Yellow, Gold, Pink, and Pastels

Tools: Feathers, Wands, Incense, Brooms, and Bells

Crystals/Minerals: Topaz, Amber, Citrine, Agate, Tin, and Copper

Herbs/Plants: Acacia, Anise, Aspen, Clover, Frankincense, Lavender, Lemongrass, Myrrh, and Pine

Astrological Signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

Virtues: Intelligence, Practicality, Curiosity, and Creativity

Fire

Fire is the third element I will talk about. This element helps with courage and strength as well as passionate affairs. In order to connect with Fire, it is advised you light candles, exercise, go on adventures, and do things you are scared of or passionate about.

Direction: South

Time: Noon

Season: Summer

Colors: Red, Orange, White, Violet, and Black

Tools: Candles, Athames, Swords, Daggers and Light

Crystals/Minerals: Fire Opal, Ruby, Garnet, Red Jasper, Bloodstone, Tiger’s Eye, and Brass

Herbs/Plants: Allspice, Basil, Cinnamon, Juniper, Cardamom, Onion, Peppers, Thistle, and Poppies

Astrological Signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Virtues: Courage, Enthusiasm, Willpower, Action, and Strength

Water

Water is the last element I will write about. This element keeps your intuition sharp and aids in emotional health. In order to connect with Water, it is advised that you take baths, drink teas, visit a large body of water, watch the rain, or go swimming.

Direction: West

Time: Dusk

Season: Fall

Colors: Blue, Silver, Turquoise, Navy, and White

Tools: Shells, Different Types of Water, Seaweed, Hag Stones, Chalices, Cups, and Cauldrons

Crystals/Minerals: Aquamarine, Blue Fluorite, Topaz, Tourmaline, Lapis Lazuli, Pearl, Mercury, Silver, and Sodalite

Herbs/Plants: Aloe, Apple, Chamomile, Gardenia, Jasmine, Lemon, Lily, Lotus, Moss, and Rose

Astrological Signs: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

Virtues: Compassion, Love, Flexibility, Forgiveness, and Understanding

#witch #witchcraft #witchblr #witches #grimoire #book of shadows #baby witch #beginner witch #information #element #elements #correspondences #elements as a witch #learn about the elements #elements are important guys #elements :)

167 notes · View notes

ithinkdogshouldvote · 1 month

Text

Terry I love you. You are so weird. WHY do you have a sword????

#vampire sword that literally sucks the elements from elemental attacks. giving terry the cool fucking dnd sword he deserves #btw the scar on his eyebrow is where the bullet came out. the hair there Isn’t gone but its gray forever #it’ll blend in with the rest of his hair thats already going SUUUper gray. god save this man get him antidepressants #changed his design after some feedback. this is the one ill be using from now on #I’m sorry for any discomfort i might have caused with my past design.#terry jr stampler #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndads s2 #digital art #digital drawing #my artwork #fanart #dungeons & daddies #dndaddies #btw if its not clear. the elemental versions of the swords in order are fire lighting cold thunder and acid #lark oak #sparrow oak #scary marlowe #dont go and Learn more about bullying at your local library its a trap #terry jr #terry junior

461 notes · View notes

violent138 · 30 days

Text

Slightly enamoured by the idea that Bruce leaves Clark secret, romantic messages microscopically encoded in the punctuation of reports he gives him, under the pretense of Clark checking them over.

#I can not at the moment tell you what comic this was. Or even if this is something that I maybe hallucinated (lol tragic)#But. Superman once read microdots that looked like punctuation but contained other text #If I ever find what that was about so will you but until then #I thought this was just as cute as learning Kryptonian/another element of their ways of knowing each other #made myself gag a little at that (warning: immature)#shrugs #batman #superman #superbat #bruce wayne #clark kent #superman comics #superbat headcanons #my headcanons

267 notes · View notes

ryllen · 6 months

Text

#mtas #my time at sandrock #mtas wei #mtas builder #fanart #i found my true love target ; v ;#the smiling type is the ones that truly snatch my heart #they bring me the utmost joy #as much ironic it is unsuur makes me unsure of the rest of the stage after confession #i just thought i marry him in case the builder parents come and there would be some kind of scene over it like in portia #till the very last minute my heart was somehow still half in about it #tho in the game unsuur is read very close as 'unsure' i actually pronounce it differently bcs it's close to something in my language #unsur : means element; i thought that's nice bcs it feels closely to rock related thing #https://translate.google.com/?sl=id&tl=en&text=unsur&op=translate #if anyone even interest the slightest on how it sounds when pronounced by me here's the google translate link #but yea i'm dying that it is literally being pronounced 'unsure'#pls help him he just needs to be given a chance to command so he can learn to do independent thinking from experience #like yeah probably there would be lots of mistake at first #but u're like a mom justice who decides everything for the child so when u ask the child they just be like don't know ask mom fshdshd #he needs to be put out there #or had that been done justice if so i am sorry ; v ;#but seriously i'm dying when i kept adventuring with justice and logan and unsuur was just told to wait like a puppy fhsdh #he needs to be taught how to decide things by himself seriously #it's honestly hard to write unsuur's character #like no matter how u tried somehow it doesn't feel as close as funny or as serious deadpan like the original #wei here is like a piece of white paper i can scribble whatever i want #it's unexpected #but i ended up liking wei

295 notes · View notes

uncanny-tranny · 4 months

Text

"haha, are you an art gay, a science gay, or a math gay"

Actually, I find the division between art, science, and math to be a very nebulous idea and useless when you actually interact with the universe. The more you learn about the world, the more you surround yourself with art and science and math, and you'll never be able to see it any other way and it will be beautiful. When I take your hand, it won't be the science of our atoms closing the distance between us that we will experience, but the math of our fingers interlocking and the art of our bodies that we will experience. You are math and you are science and you are art, and nothing will make you any lesser💛

#positivity #the planets are singing right now. are you listening?#if you can't experience the art of science and the science of art then i think you're missing out #the more i intentionally try to learn the more i love art and sfience and the world 💛#i was always more of a humanities person but i've grown restless and taking up science??????? holy shit??????#i was in class the other day and a very simple concept finally clicked in a fundamental way and i think that's why i'm alive actually #i think i know how michaelangelo felt when he painted the creation of adam #this is why i really encourage y'all to look up on youtube some free lectures because some of them are so amazing #like i watched a lecture about elements and it's still fucking me up when i think about it #this is also why i despise the whole 'modern art isn't really art; it takes no skill 😡' thing people like to do #please sit down and paint one of the installments of Who's Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue #i've learned to appreciate that installment and art series as of late and i think it's nice art #i love this stupid fucking world 👾

207 notes · View notes

themoonking · 5 months

Text

the book trend that needs to be left in the dust for the new year is greek mythology retellings. i am so sick and tired of "retellings" of greek (or roman, but mainly greek) mythology from authors that clearly have a very surface level pop cultural understanding of the myth(s) they're adapting and the culture(s) they're depicting. especially the many that market themselves as "feminist retellings" where the "feminism" is basically just "men bad sometimes", and especially when they're "feminist retellings" that take some of the few mythological women who get happy endings and take it away from them for the sake of saying "men bad sometimes". it's all so shallow and they exploded this year and i'm sick of it.

#i wish so fucking much to read one (1) singular actually good feminist retelling of greek mythology #but they're always so shallow both in their messaging and their understanding of ancient greek culture and religion #i speak #anti booktok #sort of anyway?#greek mythology #bc i can't make a single post tangentially about myth without bitching about medusa:#so many people in publishing clearly got everything they learned about medusa from popular online depictions #and especially the books that are specifically about medusa blending greek and roman mythology despite them having very distinct elements

149 notes · View notes

multifandom-nerds-blog · 2 months

Text

More thoughts on Kai stuck in the never space : (possible AU)

I'm no definitely stuck on the idea that time passes differently there. Ergo, he's been there for a few years, at minimum a decade when finally does get out again at some point

There isn't really lots of common food there (The banished five don't need food to survive in my opinion) so he got used to eating anything eadible. So moss, insects, whatever he can find really

Bonzle is also sharing some of her magical energy with him, so it's easier for him to survive without much food or water. You can imagine it as Kai carrying one of her eyes on a necklace like a blue orb.

Since Bonzle also doesn't have a need for sleep like Kai does, she usually covers guard duty. Without her Kai would probably barely sleep at all (he already does)

At one point Kai ends up picking up magic. Though I'm not sure how exactly yet, he probably goes by gut feeling and a combination of things that Bonzle knows and his experiences with magic users.

Inside the neverspace, there are some other creatures as well. Mostly of magical/mystical nature. Now or then Kai either fights them for practicing magic, or even hunts them for food. (Safe to say, eating magical creatures has some effects on his body as well.)

He then combines his elemental fire with his magic, and through that gets a more flexible fighting style. This definitely helps as he's basically trying to hunt down the other forbidden five inside the neverspace

Bonzle obviously tries to stop him but Kai is to stubborn so she ends up following him anyways to pull him out if a situation gets to dangerous

Kai and Bonzle definitely form a sort of codependency

Bonzle at some point also told Kai about an agent walker she met right before the blood moon, and he figured out the rest

About his looks

You can imagine it, but his clothes are pretty thrown together after so many years, with scraps he can find somehow. His main red is still but barely present after time, but he ends up combining the colors of the other ninja in to remember them better. (When you use magical energy needed for your survival to dye your clothes in other colors.)

His hair grows out, and when it's open Kai pretty much looks like his mom. Most of the time however it's braided with on of Nyas hair ties he still had in his pockets. At one point he also ripped up his ninja mask for some bandaids, and is using the rest of it now as a bandana

He also gets several new scars, be it from experemening with magic, or fights with either the remaining forbidden or other creatures existing in the never space.

That's it for now. I don't wanna put to much stuff in one post, but please tell me if you want more or have ideas foe your own. I also still don't have a proper name idea for this AU/canon divergence, unless I'm somehow predicting s2 part 2 but that would be wild.

88 notes · View notes

arkiwii · 8 months

Text

Diamond shards in the chest

Plants watered by tears

#i was supposed to draw ifrit first before posting it but i got lazy #and my hand starts to hurt from drawing too much >:/#anyway. i have learned that Nori's rhine lab guys are inspired by elements #and the SYMBOLICS. i love them #a heart of stone that cant understand or accept other's feelings #beautiful plants that can be so easily destroyed if neglected #i cry everyday about them #arknights #stalkiwiart #olivia silence #saria #fanart #art

216 notes · View notes

stagefoureddiediaz · 2 months

Text

Something something about the alien hand call in 7x05 and Buck being the one being strangled.

Something something about Buck grappling with this new part of himself and coming out to people. Something something about the ‘fear’ of being judged or treated differently having him in a stranglehold because it’s still new to him and he doesn’t have it figured out himself yet.

Something something about being in 2 minds about telling people, about revealing himself - because the alien hand syndrome in this call occurs when the brains two lobes are separated - the connection severed - the brain is split in two

#I don’t know there’s just something about not having control over part of yourself or how people will react to it #something about buck being in two minds about telling people but also wanting to experience the freedom of discovering a new and big part of #who he is #there’s also something about learning a new way of existing #but theres also something about being in the grip of jealousy and not fully in control of your actions or behaviour because you don’t #understand what is going on #(we know this call got shifted from the last ep so the jealousy element is still kind of relevant and I also feel like jealousy is meant to #be a running them for this season)#911 spoilers #911 abc #bi buck #evan 'buck' buckley #evan buckley

125 notes · View notes

xxxemogrrlxxx · 9 months

Text

let this girl wear other clothes!

#myart #art #artists on tumblr #elemental #elemental 2023 #ember lumen #ive been working on this for like a couple days ive just been lazy :p #coloring the fire was very annoying icl #but i learned alot about what i should do next time instead #if these outfits r ugly umm pretend i didnt come up with them.#i probably should have shaded this but i cant work on a piece for more then a couple days because i get so bored of it #the negative effects of rushing my art as a child

243 notes · View notes

sparring-spirals · 1 year

Text

when ludinus says he saw the calamity happen to imply he was there, but he actually just saw one 30 minute youtube video about it with footage and like,, close enough! he's SO angry about it.

#critical role #cr spoilers #c3e45 #is this anything #i still need to watch the ep #ludinus da'leth #ludinus as a survivor of the calamity? Spicy. exciting. but what about: ludinus as that one guy who learned just enough information about #something to reinforce his own worldview and also be SO annoying about it #shitpost #(this is a joke)#i was going to.make a post like this about that irritating elemental they interrogated but then ludinus came along #and i cant NOT dunk on cerberus assembly members. its good for me.

442 notes · View notes

coquelicoq · 7 months

Text

what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.

#the other thing i love about it is that in a very real sense it's his actor day job that is his alter ego #being an exorcist is his normie job. he's just a famous celebrity on the side #which isn't that uncommon in secret identity setups but it's still very funny #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #natori shuuichi #natsuyuu meta #my posts #f #i think probably the actual answer is that acting was a very natural career choice because he already masks so extensively #both to hide that he can see things other people can't (and that youkai exist and that he exorcises them)#and to hide what he's really feeling so that no one can use it against him #so if it's already something he has to do & he's good at it...why not have someone tell him exactly how to do it & get paid for it?#and the other part of the answer is that most ppl don't go into acting assuming they'll get famous. the fame was a side effect #so each decision as it was being made probably made perfect sense. but put them all together #and you have this hilarious assortment of elements that seem to directly contradict each other #okay also i would be remiss if i didn't mention the other possible answer which is that the attention came first and was unavoidable #and the acting developed from the need to protect himself from the attention that he was going to be attracting no matter what he did #because he's so beautiful. and (in the exorcist world specifically) because he's the last of the natori #the more i talk about it the more i'm like no becoming a famous actor was the only path that made any sense for him lol #1) he's gonna be watched no matter what bc he's him -> gotta figure out how to hide his secrets -> learn to act as self-defense #or 2) he's got secrets -> he's gotten a lot of practice hiding them -> hey you could make a career out of this!#all roads lead to actor natori shuuichi. and since he's beautiful...all roads lead to FAMOUS actor natori shuuichi #i love it when i ramble so much in the tags that i end up contradicting my own post lol #he's neither thinking ten steps ahead nor is he irrational. he's simply making sensible individual decisions #that follow logically from what is available to him and what his priorities are

137 notes · View notes

commsroom · 8 months

Text

thinking again about how underexplored hera & minkowski are as a dynamic, considering how close their relationship is, and i think there is some synergy between minkowski's "i can't think of a decision in my life that wasn't already determined by someone else. but, even then, there was always a choice, and i always made it." and similar sentiments expressed by hera. and this exchange with eiffel in ep 48: "no. this isn't even a choice for me." / "yes, it is. it's a sucky ass choice, but it is a choice." while hera & minkowski were the two people who initially argued to stay...

it's true that all of the main wolf 359 characters have an element of regaining control / autonomy present in their arcs (lovelace's conflict with the dear listeners + choosing to be isabel lovelace, and eiffel's need to take responsibility for himself as a full person and an autonomous actor in order to move forwards), but i think there's something about how hera & minkowski share this fear of losing control. that they must perform perfectly, be better and do more than everyone around them in order to earn the same amount of respect as anyone else, without knowing why they feel so... deficient.

i think a lot of their early conflict stems from this shared insecurity clashing against opposite priorities and relationships to authority - minkowski believes that the way to prove herself as a person is to attach her worth to her job and excel at it, while hera's worth as a person has been tied to her job by external forces and she struggles to be seen as more than that. it's an important job to minkowski, and an important role, but she doesn't initially realize that she's not just arguing with hera as an unruly subordinate, but as a person for whom that is the unwilling totality of her existence. like in let's kill hilbert, where hera says "try to sound a little less patronizing" and she replies "i'm not being patronizing, i'm being critical" - i think that's the primary disconnect in their perspectives.

over time, as minkowski learns to separate herself (and her self worth) more and more from that idealized role of commander, i think those shared insecurities become a point of connection more than discordance. minkowski is sort of a defender by nature, and devoted to the people she cares about, but i think there is still a personal element in some of the ways she most ardently advocates for hera - in the way she demands hera be respected for her efforts, and, notably... minkowski has a lot of personal baggage around being made fun of for how she speaks. i think it's worth considering that in the context of lovelace mocking hera's stutter, and minkowski later turning "count to ten" back on her.

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #renee minkowski #just thinking. about some things #i should also mention that i think minkowski at the very least professionally defended hera at times eiffel did not #i.e. the opening scene of memoria #even if that's general politeness she has that eiffel. does not.#overall hera's relationship to eiffel has been closer since they share more immediate values and also just. well you know #but all three of those relationships. in different ways #i think have this element of learning to show compassion to yourself for seeing your insecurities in others.#and. i don't know. it means something to me.

98 notes · View notes

whyeverr · 7 months

Text

things I’m excited for (in no particular order):

exterior wall-mounted AC units, squat toilets, the hard plastic chair

the water heater (yes it feels like this belongs in a City Living refresh but I can’t deny my feelings for her! 🥵)

hopscotch and marbles and sky lanterns 🥹

the rice cooker and new functional tea pot and all the delicious looking new foods (all the new foods look so good lately!)

Cringe trait and the elder-specific Wise trait 🫶🏻

deco tuk tuks

the real estate sign and new communal mailboxes (with indoor and outdoor options!)

the glimmer of hope I’m keeping alive for angled gable options in build mode — am I dreaming or is the building in the bottom right (with the kind of roofline I’m talking about) not a deco building? you can see through the windows…

#this list is very build mode focused #the tenant / landlord gameplay mechanics seem fun as well #even if some of the elements feel very city living refresh 🥲#genuinely excited to explore this pack #and to learn a bunch about thai architecture from build planning and research 🥰#but also to make the landgraabs shitty landlords 😀

72 notes · View notes

faggling · 1 month

Text

ive decided im singlehandedly going to bring mr robot back from the dead because if any show deserves to have a revival in popularity it does

like.

can you fucking imagine the discourse??? the possibilities are endless

#mr. robot #mr robot #elliot alderson #darlene alderson #dissociative identity disorder #also i imagine id learn so much from other people #because like. theres a lot of moving parts and im hungry for others perspectives #i need people smarter than me to give me greater understanding #i strucktured this poorly #but im high give me a break #also getting to hear more systems talk about it would be hot #because i know its technically spoilers or whatever to talk about the dissociative identity disorder aspect but also #if you know anything about DID it becomes clear pretty fast in the narrative #also i already know most systems i see would not particularly enjoy the ending. i like it even though i do disagree with some elements of i #and found it to kinda speedrun the healing process #4.07 kinda facilitates that but honestly im p sure all that wouldve made healing take longer ya feel?

26 notes · View notes

transingthoseformers · 1 year

Text

Megatron tries to show everyone something on the internet and there's an ungodly amount of ads for trucks and car insurance.

Now, the others might be confused, but Soundwave knows. He knows how targeted advertising works and he knows Megatron's internet history and wishes he didn't.

#transformers #maccadam #suggestive #megop #implied #Soundwave #Megatron #this could apply to the tfp au #but this can also apply to literally any au containing megop elements #megatron learned quickly about r 34

272 notes · View notes