Earth, Water, Air & Fire

I thought I had better explain more about the so called elements, Earth, Water, Air & Fire in magickal practice and in energy work in general as it can be quite misleading. I already tried to make it quite clear that developing chakras and working with chakra energies is what is needed and what is natural and that it is even better to work with portal energies which integrate and enhance all chakra energies.

Earth, Water, Air & Fire are not types of energies, but the way any energy can manifest. Portal energy can manifest as Earth, Water, Air or Fire energy and so can the energy of any individual chakra. Perhaps it might be better to think of these elements in a different way. Earth as a solid, Water as a liquid, Air as a gas, and Fire as a plasma.

If you want to create a magickal barrier or protection you might want to work with the energy to create something solid, something that will block unwanted energies. This would be using the energy as an earth energy.

If you want to heal an illness or dissolve and mix or blend or even cleanse you might work with energy as a liquid that flows and envelops. This would be using the energy as water.

If you want to attract or repel something that requires the magickal cone of power you would be using the energy as Air with its rotating vortex and magnetic powers to attract and repel. North magnetic repels and South magnetic attracts.

If you want something to grow, or to illuminate or to pierce you would use the energy as Fire which penetrates, consumes and purifies. You can think of Fire as life bringing as the sunlight in spring or you can think of it as destructive like the lightning bolt of unleashed fury.

While these designations are appropriate, actual energy work tends to require a much more fluid approach. For example, in doing energy work as a healing you might first try to probe the illness which is using the energy as Fire; then you might try to banish the negative energy or absorb the energy into yourself as many shaman do and that is using the energy as Air; or you may try to heal the wound which would be using the energy as water. Again if you attempted to totally destroy the illness you would be using the energy as Fire once more.

In this example I’ve tried to show that quite often you may have to shift the way you are working with the energy many times within the magickal operation itself. You may find yourself using the energy one way and then if it doesn’t work or you need to move to another stage, you may need to use the energy in another way. So the designations of Earth, Water, Air & Fire are appropriate as to how the energies may manifest or how they may be used, but in no way indicate what kind of energy it is. It doesn’t indicate if it is Etheric, Physical, Lower Emotional, Upper Emotional, Concrete Mental, Abstract Mental, Concrete Spiritual, or Unity energy or even if it is full spectrum Portal energy.

The so called magickal weapons: the pantacle, cup, sword/dagger, and wand are merely used as focuses to assist the energy to take a particular form. But as mentioned this creates problems when you need to shift the energy to a different form during the same magickal operation.

Again, the best solution is to work with full spectrum Portal energy and have all the chakras fully integrated and working as one single energy which will obey the direction of personal will which includes the ability for it to change form easily and instantly to whatever form is needed. The Portal meditations encourage this and you can easily create your own portal meditation or working.

Magickal rituals involving the magickal weapons are carry overs from the times when other chakra energies were dominant and created or attempted to create shortcuts. In this new age the etheric energies of the root chakra are dominant and there are no shortcuts. The body itself is what is magickal. That means all magickal bodies need to be integrated into one singular and magickal soul.