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