The Action and Will of Manifestation
Fire is the action-oriented part of the creation sequence that is also associated with will, personal power and creativity. Once you’ve developed the idea of what you want to create (and done the planning part) in the Air element, it’s time to move into Fire, where you take action and endeavor to bring your creation into being.
Fire is associated with the direction South, which is also the direction in which we perform all major spellwork and creation. Fire elementals are called salamanders and reside in campfires, woodstoves or anywhere there is a fire.
Specifically, Fire corresponds to:
energy, power, will, desire, anger, pain, motivation, radiance, passion, initiative, aggression, limitation, endeavor, activity, creative, willingness, urge, inspired, excitable, courage, bravado, compulsion, fanaticism, frustration, resentment, rage, freedom..
If you want to affect any of these areas in your life, then you need to work with Fire. Unlike Air, which has only three colors, Fire has six major colors:
Sun Yellow – Spirit fire, creativity, radiance
Yellow-Orange – Motivation, excitability, activity
Red-Orange – Anger, pain, fever, aggression, drive
Bright-Red – Courage, bravado, will, endeavor
Deep Red – Passion, flow
Electric-Blue – All bands, initiating force on galactic or universal levels
As with the element Air, you can use the element Fire to adjust various aspects of your life. For instance, if you consistently wake up with the “Monday morning blues,” try adding Sun Yellow to your environment. For instance, you could start dressing in Sun Yellow, burn a Sun Yellow candle or put a Sun Yellow spread on your bed.
All of these sources of Sun Yellow will nourish and feed your spirit, increasing your Spirit vitality and chasing away feelings of gloom and doom. Sun Yellow also feed any “hole in the soul” feelings you might have (and which you might otherwise try to fill with food, sleep or other numbing pleasures.) Sun Yellow is literally a spiritual “jump start”. Give it a try!
More About Salamanders
Harry Potter played with salamanders in his movie, and so can you! Salamanders occur around fires, such as wood burning stoves or campfires. They are ball-shaped, pick up the energy of the fire, and become visible. You will see a ball shaped dome in certain parts of the fire, and ashes will fall around them, not on them.
They are useful to have around as they increase the level of heat, making the fire hotter with less wood. If you leave an inch of ash at the bottom of the campfire, it will encourage the salamanders to stay in the campfire, which makes it easier to restart when you return. To keep salamanders around, bed down your coals with layer of eart>h, it provides an air insulator that they can burrow into. You can dig them out later, and easily restart your fire. A candle flame will spit out little sparks called sprites, which are actually baby salamanders. You can catch them in baby food jars and they will stay glowing in there for 30 or 45 seconds. If you open the jar during that time, they will jump back into in the candle flame. Have fun!
More Ways to Play with Fire
If you want to get “hands on” with the element Fire, try our Fire Home Study Short Course. Get the details HERE.
To find out more about the Athame, the Magical Fire Tool, click HERE
Learn More About Other Magical Elements:
Magical Element Air
Magical Element Water
Magical Element Earth
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