Floating Associations With The Elements

It is easy to find out information about what element corresponds with your zodiac sign. But is it also the most reliable way to find your true connection to an particular element? A personal connection may not reflect that of which the zodiac assigned to you, and that personal connection is far more important in your practice then the assigned one.

But how do you find out which element you are drawn to? And can it be a floating one, not one but an association depending on the stage of your life, your current practice or situation, or a particular guide you need at the moment?

This connection is similar to the connection to a particular Matron or Patron Deity. While some forge a long term, or even life time connection to a particular deity expression of the Universe, others have connections that differ in particular life stages.

Whatever expressions we need to learn, we need to give the same openness to our elemental association, as we give to our deity association. Each time in our life requires particular guidance, and if we learn our lessons, different guidance from time to time, sometimes even more then one.

I will use myself as an example.

I am according to my birth-sign a Water element. Not only that I am in Chinese mythology a Water-dragon. Scorpio is a water sign. But both as a Scorpio and as a Water-dragon, I am more so personally drawn to the element of Fire. While my associations with the mythical creature - Dragon  -  is strong, I could never picture it as a creature of Water. To me, I represent, it represents Fire, in all of its associations. I have the same tendency when I focus upon an Scorpio, the classical astrological association of mine. To me it is a creature of heat, a creature I consider to be living either in the damp heat of a tropical climate or the hot fierceness of the desert. Again I do not see the classical association with Water. In my view, I am a creature of Fire. I have never been drawn to water in any way, and my preferred method of magick tends to be that energy as well.

So I am challenging you to look outside of the classical associations and feel your connection to the Elements in a more personal way. While I am planning on exploring the lessons of that Water entails within it, I am, and always have consider myself a creature of fire.

Goddess Blessings!