ab:fire.txt                                                        16jan90


                        Fire 


Temptress                       
Astrological Rulers: Sun, Mars, Jupiter

Keys:   Light Principle, Action
        Michael (victor over ignorance)
Rules:  force, energy, spirit, heat, mental plane, blood, sap, life, will, 
        surgery, destruction, purification, hearth fires, volcanoes, explosions
        Choleric; Intuitive; lively
Virtues: courageous, self-assertive, chivalrous, enthusiastic, passionate,
        experienced, virile
Vices:  self-centred, ruthless, fanaticism, vindictiveness, anger, hatred 

Midsummer & noon
South, Notus
Colour: red

Symbols: fire opal, almond (in flower), garlic, hibiscus, pepper, olibanum
Tools:  scourge, sword, athame
Spirits: salamanders under Djinn (elusive & hostile, teach power over fire
        & energy)

Shortage: body heavy or chilled, thoughts drag-gy, unenthusiastic
Excess: hot, hyper, flitting thoughts, insomnia, anger, snappishness

Here follows the fire symbol, drawn (badly) in ascii---

               *
              * *
             *   *
            *     *
           *       *
          *         *
         *           *
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-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 (rather than in a Grimoire or in a 
 set of teaching notes) also appears to be Khaled's idea