Earth, Air, Fire & Water Quotes

“Earth is our mother. It’s as fertile and nurturing as farmland; as moist as soil and as dry as sand. In its physical manifestations (such as stones), earth represents the densest of the elements.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“Red: Maintaining health, bodily strength, physical energy, sex, passion, courage, protection, and defensive magic. This is the color of the element of fire. Throughout the world, red is associated with life and death, for this is the color of blood spilled in both childbirth and injury. Pink: Love, friendship, compassion, relaxation. Pink candles can be burned during rituals designed to improve self-love. They’re ideal for weddings and for all forms of emotional union. Orange: Attraction, energy. Burn to attract specific influences or objects. Yellow: Intellect, confidence, divination, communication, eloquence, travel, movement. Yellow is the color of the element of air. Burn yellow candles during rituals designed to heighten your visualization abilities. Before studying for any purpose, program a yellow candle to stimulate your conscious mind. Light the candle and let it burn while you study. Green: Money, prosperity, employment, fertility, healing, growth. Green is the color of the element of earth. It’s also the color of the fertility of the earth, for it echoes the tint of chlorophyll. Burn when looking for a job or seeking a needed raise. Blue: Healing, peace, psychism, patience, happiness. Blue is the color of the element of water. This is also the realm of the ocean and of all water, of sleep, and of twilight. If you have trouble sleeping, charge a small blue candle with a visualization of yourself sleeping through the night. Burn for a few moments before you get into bed, then extinguish its flame. Blue candles can also be charged and burned to awaken the psychic mind. Purple: Power, healing severe diseases, spirituality, meditation, religion. Purple candles can be burned to enhance all spiritual activities, to increase your magical power, and as a part of intense healing rituals in combination with blue candles. White: Protection, purification, all purposes. White contains all colors. It’s linked with the moon. White candles are specifically burned during purification and protection rituals. If you’re to keep but one candle on hand for magical purposes, choose a white one. Before use, charge it with personal power and it’ll work for all positive purposes. Black: Banishing negativity, absorbing negativity. Black is the absence of color. In magic, it’s also representative of outer space. Despite what you may have heard, black candles are burned for positive purposes, such as casting out baneful energies or to absorb illnesses and nasty habits. Brown: Burned for spells involving animals, usually in combination with other colors. A brown candle and a red candle for animal protection, brown and blue for healing, and so on.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“Personal power is raised (through tightening the muscles), focused with a goal (through visualization), and released to bring that goal into manifestation.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“to be happy This requires a round mirror and a photograph of yourself taken in happier times. The photograph should include no one but yourself. Prop the mirror so that it stands straight on its edge. Next, place the picture on a nearby table, the wall, a chair, or on some other object. The picture should be reflected within the mirror. Allow the mirror to reflect the photograph for at least three minutes. During this time, recall those happier days. Immerse yourself in them. Don’t allow your concentration to waver and melt into a sea of tears concerning your current state; keep your mind firmly fixed on those happier days. Now, sit within the mirror’s reflection, i.e., between the mirror and the picture. Stay there until your sadness truly blossoms into happiness. Repeat as needed.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“Preparing a Mirror for Magic It’s best to perform some type of short ritual before using any mirror for magical purposes. Since mirrors are ruled by the element of water, we’ll use water to purify them. The process is simple. Do this ritual at night. You’ll need a vessel of some kind that’s larger than the mirror (a bucket, a large bowl, a bathtub, even a pond, river, or the ocean). Dip the mirror into the water. As you do this, say: What was here . . . Lift the mirror from the water. Say: I wash away. Do this thirteen times, each time completely submersing the mirror, then completely removing it from the water. If the moon is visible in the sky, hold the mirror up to receive its rays for a few moments. Dry the mirror. Holding it in your hands, say these or similar words: You are now a tool of magic. Assist me in my rites! Next, wrap the mirror in blue or white cloth and store in some special place until you have need of it.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“If we look closely, we’ll discover that magic is living, and that living is a magical process. Nothing separates them; they are one.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“As long as you follow the nine guidelines listed in this chapter, your spells will be as effective as any that have ever been written and performed….1. Determine the spell’s goal. 2. Determine the element involved. 3. Determine the materials to be used. 4. Determine the best time (if any) to perform the spell. 5. Compose the rhyme or words of power. 6. Draft the spell in writing. 7. Finalize the spell. 8. Gather the tools. 9. Perform the spell.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“Beauty isn’t in the eye of the beholder, it’s a reflection of our feelings about ourselves. When we dwell on our “defects” (no human body is perfect), we lessen our inward and outward beauty.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“By hill and wind,
by flame and brook,
by shining moon and sea,
I place a bind
upon this book
that it return to me.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“The elements emerge from akasha, the immutable, changeless source of all energy. This is the realm of potentiality—of promise, of paths not yet taken, of unformed galaxies, of outer space.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“A magical life isn’t one spent solely on spellcasting, herb collection, and chanting. It’s one in which the subtle but real energies of the earth are sensed with wonder; in which we feel the cycles of nature transforming us; in which we, as human beings, respect the unknowable forces that shape our world and give us life.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“Natural magic (the practice of using the forces of nature coupled with the powers of our minds and bodies) has always been a part of the human experience.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

“Folk magic is just that—the magic of the people. It’s never been too complex, if only because these people didn’t have time for fancy magic. Their rituals reflected their simple, subsistence farming lives.”
― Scott Cunningham, Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic