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



Ty Holder
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