Spirit is hard to define, since it is intangible and subject to personal experience and cosmological views. My animistic perspective leads me to define the element of Spirit as the intangible spark which is each individual soul or consciousness, found in everything and everywhere. It both is divinity, and connects everything to divinity.
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In my experience, the elements are worlds away from the isolated energetic bastions of oppositional power which they are often portrayed as. On the contrary, I have found that each element, no matter how “pure” the conjuring or elemental, contains a seed of every other element. Rather than being isolated and oppositional, the elements are interdependent and interconnected in a balanced matrix, incapable of existing without each other.
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It is easiest to make moon water by bathing it in moonlight at night, but that’s not always possible. The energies of the moon are pervasive, if more subtle in the shadows. Moon shadow energy reminds us that even when we can’t see the light, can’t see a way forward, such things still exist and affect us.
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There are a lot of symbolic associations in pagan and magical practice which are often taken for granted. One such correspondence is directions and elements. Another is gender and elements. I mention these two in particular because they don’t make sense to a lot of modern practitioners, myself included.
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This is a set of elemental candle holders that I made for use in public ritual, provided here as an example of how you can make your own candle holders easily and inexpensively. Each candle holder cost a total of about $6 in materials. The same basic process can be used to make a shielded
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Originally posted July 26, 2010. Colored pencil on black paper, 9″x12″ ~5 hours of work Reference: https://eli-stock.deviantart.com/art/Me-Red-Skirt-12-61929614 by ~eli-stock Entry for the elemental fairie contest being held by the All-Things-Pagan DeviantART group. My inspiration for this piece comes more from fantasy than pagan beliefs, as I view faeries as a people who are not inherently
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This is a back-dated post for my archive project, where I am copying over every piece of art I have ever submitted to DeviantArt, with the original submission date or watermarked year stamp, so a complete archive of my work can be found on this website. ~20 hours of work Reference: https://www.deviantart.com/taicho/art/Kimono-19053048 by ~Taicho I sketched this out
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