TOTM: Earth

Earth Correspondences
Taken from: http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/the_elements/earth.asp

• DIRECTION: North - the place of greatest darkness.
• TYPE OF ENERGY: Receptive.
• BASIC NATURE: Fertile, moist, nurturing, stabilizing, grounding. Gravity is a manifestation of this element.
• COLOUR: Green - from the colour of living plants
• PLACES: Caves, canyons, forests, groves, valleys, fields, farms, gardens, parks, plant nurseries, farmer's markets, kitchens, baby nurseries, basements, mines, holes.
• RITUALS: Money, prosperity, fertility, stability, grounding, employment.
• RITUAL FORMS: Burying, planting, making images in soil or sand.
• HERBS: Earth-smelling plants, such as patchouli and vetivert; mosses and lichens; nuts; dry and stiff plants; heavy, low-growing plants; generally roots.
• STONES: Heavy or opaque, as in coal; green, as in emerald and peridot.
• MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: Drum, all percussion instruments.
• CREATURES: Dogs, horse, earthworm, gopher, ant, cow, burrowing animals.
• SEASON: Winter - the time of darkness.
• TIME: Night.
• MAGICKAL TOOL: Pentacle.
• SENSE: Touch.
• NATURAL SYMBOLS: Salt, clay dish of fresh soil, rocks, sheaves of wheat, acorns.
• TYPES OF MAGICK RULES: Gardening, magnet, image, stone, tree, knot, binding.
• GODDESSES: Ceres, Demeter, Gaea, Mah, Nephthys, Persephone, Prithivi, Rhea, Rhiannon.
• GODS: Adonis, Athos, Arawn, Cernunnos, Dionysus, Marduk, Pan, Tammuz.