The Elements and Experimentation
For many witches and Wiccans, the elements and their associated directions and correspondences are integral parts of their ritual practice as well as personal transformative work. I would like to take a little time to devote to understanding the elements, how our use of and work with them should reflect what resonates deeply within us, and how to adjust our work with them accordingly. I do this with a bit of a story of my own development. My own official training in the "craft" began in the early nineties. During that era most of the publications were very basic and foundational in their teachings, the "net" or "web" was in its infancy. The information, regarding the elements, readily available to me at that time, as a practicing baby witch in North America, was what I playfully refer to as "pagan generic"; meaning that directionally; Air was associated with the East, Fire with the South, Water with the West and Earth with the No