ab:water.txt                                                    16jan90


                       Water


Mother
Astrological Rulers: Venus, Moon

Keys:   Love Principle, Fertility
       Gabriel (turns force into form)
Rules:  emotions, love, sorrow, courage, astral planes, clairvoyance, tides,
       oceans, pools, streams, wells, womb
       Melancholic; Feeling; strong, excitatory
Virtues: compassion, tranquility, tenderness, forgiveness, modesty,
       fluidity in creativity, receptivity, influence
Vices:  self-indulgence, negligence, cowardice, indifference, instability,
       moodiness, infatuation, easily put upon, delusions

Autumn & sunset
West, Zephyrus
Colour: blue

Symbols: willlow, dolphin, fish, water snakes, sea birds, myrrh, ferns, rushes
Tool:   cup
Spirits: undines under Neksa (elusive at first, flowing & difficult to
       understand, watch politely and learn)

Shortage: deep body dryness, hotness, mind & body feel seperated, no empathy
Excess: body puffiness, sinus (etc.) flows, mood swings, "touchiness", apathy

Here follows the water 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 (instead of in a Grimoire or in a set
of training notes) also appears to be Khaled's idea