The idea of four or five basic elements is found in many different cultures and spiritual traditions. These are templates for the essences of life and existence. Air, Earth, Fire, Water are the most common and universal material elements. The fifth component is the unknown and essential element. That which gives power and spirit, consciousness and life to the material and ethereal .The element correspondences for the directional compass points of North, South, East, and West, may be different here, than you have seen elsewhere. For example Earth is in the south, and Fire is in the North, in my notes. Often practitioners change around the elements to more closely correspond to the physical of their location. (ie. on the East coast of Australia water is physically in the east, in the form of the Pacific ocean). Others think more magickally, and place the element correspondences according to the wheel itself.
In the eastern traditions of Feng Shui, the pentacle represents the elements of fire, wood, earth, metal, and water, and are either supportive or destructive in relation to each other ... read more ...
