Element Magick

This magickal application uses the five elements, as working Witches understand them: Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Spirit. The elements are represented by the pentacle, which some Witches employ to command the four elements of earth. One never commands Spirit or deity. The magick of the mind, body, and spirit tie to the pentacle and to the elements. All must be pure and working in unison for the magickal operation to succeed.

Witches work a great deal with the elements. We have representations of them on out altars, our shrines, and in our sacred space. We call them energies of the elements in ritual.

Element magick can manifest as physical or mental. For example, in Pow-Wow (which is a German system of folk magick- not Indian stuff) the element of Fire takes the shape of a healing, or Divinity, stone that you find for yourself. The stone should not be a gem, but a plain, ordinary stone that has a smooth surface and fits neatly in the palm of your hand. Once cleansed, consecrated, and empowered, the Witch instills the candle flame and the energies of the flame into the stone. No actual fire need be available when you work with the Divinity stone once you have empowered it. Witches use the Divinity stone (or lightning stone) for banishing pain, closing wounds, and other healing applications. Once charged, the stone becomes the divine representation of the element of fire in that element's healing form.

Each pool, stream, mountain, lake, rock, comet, well, star, tree, flower, weed, et cetera, has its own energy vibration, just as animals and people do. Like vibrations meld together to create a collective unconscious. In the element world, these collective energies are know as sylphs, gnomes, salamanders, and undines.