connection with element

Lightening travels up as an electrical charge from the ground to the sky, not down like most perceive it. So I would guess that lightening is earth and fire because once it strikes the area is burned.

Depending on what part of the world your looking at, there are different ideas of what elements correspond with what and what the elements are period.

For instance in the Chinese beliefs, there is Metal, Earth, Wood, Fire and Water.

Wood is their wind if you are wondering where wind is.

*flips through book of shadows*
Wood = Blue, Wind, Spring, East, Germination, Extension, Softness, Harmony
Flavor=sour, Sense= Eye

Fire= red, early summer, heat, growth
Favor=bitter, Sense=tongue

Earth=yellow, late summer, growing, nourishing, changing, transform
Flavor=sweet, sense=mouth

Metal= white, autumn, killing, clean up, strength, firmness, reap
Flavor=pungent/acrid, sense=nose

Water= black, winter, cold, downward flow, storage
Flavor=salty Sense=ear

Mother Son Relationship

Order
Wood generates fire, that generates earth, that generates metal, that generates water, that generates wood.

Superior/Inferior

Order
Wood subjugates earth
Metal subjugates wood
Fire subjugates metal
Water subjugates fire
Earth subjugates water

They use this in their magick and in their medicine. I have it because I enjoy learning tcm (traditional chinese medicine) and using oriental diagnosis. And you need to know this stuff to follow along. I really should memorize it one day.

Water + Earth = Mud

Haha very nice imma.

Each element is equal. There are no weak or strong elements in the circle.

They both balance eachother out, and have importance.

And as to controlling the elements, connecting with them helps first. It makes you feel more comfortable with that element, and it will probably accept you more.

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