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--- * * * * * * * ********* * * * * *************** ---------- -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