Water

 

Direction: west

Time: dusk

Season: autumn

Colours: blue, from dark, inky or grey blue to brilliant Mediterranean turquoise;  silver

Qualities: intuition, empathy, sympathy, healing powers, inner harmony, peacemaking, unconscious  wisdom, divinatory powers especially connected with water scrying, ability to merge and interconnect with nature, the cycles of the seasons and life  cycle.

Rules over: love, relationships, friendships, dreams, the cycle of birth, death and rebirth,  purification rites, alternative healing, using the powers of nature, especially crystals and sacred water, all water and sea magick, moon magick, travel by  sea.     Animals: albatross, dolphin, frog, heron, seagull, seal, shark, toad, whale, all fish, especially salmon, fish of the summer on the native North American  Medicine Wheel and of wisdom in the Celtic tradition.

Archangel: Gabriel, archangel of the moon, who represents the fruits of the harvest, the rewards of  our successes and the need to let go of our failures and regrets.

Gabriel protects fish stocks, those who travel across water and against inclement weather. He  cleanses polluted seas, lakes and rivers.

Visualize him in robes of silver and midnight blue with stars interwoven on the crescent moon in his  halo.

Crystals: aquamarine, blue and pink chalcedony calcite, coral, fluorite, jade, moonstone, ocean or  orbicular jasper, opal, pearl, tourmaline

Elemental creatures: naiads

Goddesses: all moon and water deities

Coventina, indigenous British water goddess of sacred springs; also revered at sacred wells in Spain  and Gaul.

Ganga, the Hindu healing water goddess who is manifest as the sacred river Ganges and was daughter  of the Himalayas

Heket or Heqet, the frog-headed Ancient Egyptian goddess who breathed life into the clay figures  that her husband Knum the potter god made; a goddess of fertility and creativity.

Mama Cocha or Mother Sea, the Peruvian whale goddess.

Ran, the Norse sea goddess who loves gold more than anything else; a goddess of  protection.

Sedna the ancient sea mother of the Inuit people who releases the seals and shoals of fish for  hunting.

Stella Maria, patroness of sailors, fishermen and travelers by sea, once identified with Isis and  now associated with the Virgin Mary who is depicted in this role with a crown of stars.

Gods: Hapy or Hapi, the god of the Nile flood, who wears flowing papyrus and lotus flowers on his  head, carrying a loaded offering dish with wine, food and lotus blossoms, as a symbol of his fecundity.

Mannanan or Manannan macLir, Lord of the Otherworld Isles of the Blest which include the Isle of Man  and Arran; he casts magical mists around them to keep away danger.

Poseidon, Greek god of the sea, who carried a trident, became Neptune in the Roman tradition and was  said to have drowned Atlantis (or some blame Zeus) because of the corruption of this Golden Race.

Tlaloc, the Aztec god of rain, whose eyes and nose were formed of intertwined serpents and who was  entreated in annual ceremonies to bring rain to fertile the crops.

Herbs and incenses: apple blossom, apricot, Balm of Gilead, camellia, catnip, coconut, coltsfoot,  cowslip, cyclamen, eucalyptus, feverfew, hyacinth, iris, jasmine, lemon, lemon balm, lilac, lily, lotus, lucky hand, myrrh, orchid, passionflower, peach,  sandalwood (sometimes under air), strawberry, sweet pea, tansy, thyme, valerian, vanilla, violet, yarrow.

Places: flooded land, flood plains, fountains, lakes, marshland, the ocean, ponds, pools, rainy day,  rivers, sacred wells and streams, water features.

Sacred substance: water

Zodiacal signs: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces