I am working on getting the notes ready for the elemental energy assessments (divinations) that I wish to make available through my Ko-Fi shop.
These are based on the assessments I used for PWRs. The initial notes (for the simplest option) are copied in below. I am working at doing some trial assessments using those notes, and will launch it when I am satisfied (if I get permission, I will provide a few example readings).
Current draft version of elemental energy assessment notes:
Description
This is a form of divination, much as Tarot, the Yi Jing, and palmistry are forms of divination.
This form of divination is aimed at determining details of the nonphysical energies [i] in and/or around a particular person/situation/question.
The purpose of this is NOT to advise or predict what will happen, but to provide some additional information to prompt deeper, more informed, more reflective thinking about the topic of the divination.
I use pendulum dowsing for the actual divination, and determine two values (between 1 and 10, each indicating the strength of a particular energy/influence) for each of five elements.
The five elements I use are those commonly used in Western esotericism / witchcraft / Wicca / Paganism: Æther, Fire, Earth, Water, and Air.
I’ve written a little on the derivation of the latter four elements in this appendix, but the key point is that I arrange them as shown below:
A brief description of the nature of each the five elements as I use them is:
- Æther:
- Often described as “spirituality”, but that can be affected by personal associations, so I’ll describe this as broader, deeper, & longer term perspectives, understanding, and inclusiveness
- Fire:
- Passion, transformation
- Water:
- Feeling and slower but forceful changes
- Air:
- Thinking, quick but possibly fleeting changes
The two values are for what are often simplified and misdescribed as “good” and “bad”: I am actually looking at balance, and the two values are for:
- balanced and/or balancing energy (or influences), which I term balanced positive, spiritually mature (abbreviated to BPM [ii] ),
and
- unbalanced and/or unbalancing energy (or influences), which I term balanced positive, spiritually mature (abbreviated to nonBPM).
Examples of BPM and nonBPM energies for each element would be:
- Æther (broader, deeper, & longer term perspectives, understanding, and inclusiveness):
- BPM: compassion
- nonBPM: dogmatic ideology
- Fire (passion, transformation):
- BPM: drive to change self or the world to something better
- nonBPM: anger (misunderstood/reactionary/poorly directed emotion)
- Earth (strength, stability, and integration):
- BPM: confidence, patience
- nonBPM: stubbornness
- Water (feeling and slower but forceful changes):
- BPM: love
- nonBPM: jealousy
- Air(thinking, quick but possibly fleeting changes):
- BPM: inspiration
- nonBPM: distraction
The values (strengths) of the energies/influences are then assessed as follows:
- The first assessment is to see which energies
will control others, using the sequence Æther controls
Earth, Fire
controls Water, Earth
controls Air, Water controls Æther,
Air controls Fire.
For example, 32 units of BPM Æther energy will help to prevent 28 units of nonBPM Earth energy being problematic. On the other hand, 18 units of nonBPM Fire energy will inhibit the beneficial influences of 16 units of BPM Water energy. Based on the divined strengths, I will determine which BPM elements need to be strengthened, and which nonBPM elements need to be weakened.
For example, if BPM Water on the astral needs to be strengthened, it may necessary to generate and send [iii] compassion – which could also be used to weaken nonBPM Æther. - I then consider the relative strengths of each
element. If an element needs (BPM) strengthening, that can be done either by
trying to strengthen that element directly, or if it is being blocked by a
nonBPM stronger element, the energy can be sent to the element “upstream” (using
the sequence Æther, Fire,
Earth, Water,
Air) of that
element, which may be easier and thus more effective.
As an example, consider the case of 18 units of nonBPM Fire energy inhibiting 16 units of BPM Water energy. Water is generated by Earth; if Earth has more than 18 units of BPM energy, it will increase BPM Water energy.
Having assessed these, can provide some commentary, including on energies to meditate on or generate to exert a balancing (“beneficial”) effect on the person/situation/question.
However, note that these situations are dynamic, and you may subsequently determine something else would be better.
Chart
Commentary
Appendices
Elements
The concept of the latter four elements probably dates back to ancient Greek philosophers (or further), and came to us via Hermeticism (there is some good information on this in Brendan Myers’ book “The Earth, The Gods and the Souls”).
Often these are associated with a physical direction, which I hadn’t come across until I did my Wiccan Priestess training, but there are debates about which direction “should” be associated with what element (often based on local conditions – such as those on the western side of a large body of water putting water in the east, rather than the more common west), but, as one of my teachers pointed out: does it matter where you put a radio (using a radio tuned to particular station as an analogy for tuning in to/calling one particular element)?
Those associations are irrelevant to this form of divination, but the representation of elements around a circle is.
Agrippa’s 1559 “Philosophy of Natural Magic: Complete Work on Natural Magic, White & Black Magic” includes a statement that each element has two properties, which are various combinations of heat-cold and dry-moist. One property is referred to as “proper”, and the other as “mean”, the “mean” property of one becomes the “proper” property of the next, as shown in the table below (I wonder if that classification could be representative of an octave shift?).
The order that he has the elements listed in is the order I use, if I travel around the outside of the pentagram in a clockwise direction.
However, it should also be noted that this idea can be traced back further in history, through Empedocles and the Ancient Greek concept of humours(which may be based on less developed concepts in Ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia, and has parallels with concepts in Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese philosophy, and the First Peoples of Australia).
My derivation of the four elements is shown below:
[i] I
have written about nonphysical energy on a couple of blogs I have: see http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/post-no-690-more-on-magickal-elements.html and https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2014/06/post-no-562-rethinking-of-laws-of-magick.html.
[ii] I
have also written more about this on one of my blogs. See https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2014/04/balanced-positive.html,
https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2014/10/maturity-non-physical.html,
and https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2015/12/bpm.html.
[iii]
I have written about this on my blog also. For more, see https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2015/05/post-no-708-how-do-i-clear-or-channel.html
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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