Water-represents our emotions and how we hold or release it, such as sorrow or grief. In tarot it can be how we handle challenges, forward movement, conflicts within ourselves or between others, as well as creativity and what we create. Fire speaks to one’s will power, inner strength, and perseverance. In tarot, air is represented by swords, the mental body, wisdom, and things that create obstacles, stress, or anxiety.įire-represents energy, it is transformative, the empowered action we take and our inner strength. Your mental thoughts also influence your action(s). In tarot, earth is represented by coins or pentacles and speaks of not only financial abundance, but other gifts, forms of abundance and blessings we receive.Īir-represents our thoughts, intellect, the setting of intentions, connection to the universal life force, and things of the ethereal or higher spiritual realms, and various types of communication or how we communicate. They are also represented in the four suits of tarot.Įarth-represents grounding, the foundation of life, substance, things that are tangible, connection to life path, family roots, primal or animal instincts, and it is associated with the root chakra (red) in the body’s energetic system.
The Elements are also sometimes referred to as ‘temperments’ and represent different strengths and weaknesses of human nature. Each caused not only different effects, but they could also change in form (example: water-liquid, air/steam, ice) of which occurred at an atomic level. In essence, they were alchemized and held together or pushed apart by the cosmic forces of polarity (attraction and repulsion). The elements are matter and therefore changeable. The early Greeks believed that these elements were unchanging in nature, and everything was created from them. They have played a role in metaphysics and the mystical since ancient times. The Four Elements are Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. For the purpose of this article, I will be addressing them individually and collectively, and how they are used in the plant medicine tradition of the Amazon and Native American culture. Depending on the culture, you will find similarities and similar symbology. The Four Elements, the Four Directions, and the Medicine Wheel are used in spirituality and in many cultures.
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