'Symbolism' Articles
Children are drawn at first to the most primal elements. All energy is elemental, inside us or around us, and each element is a spiritual, as well as material fact. We can reconnect as simply as children first connected. Life itself resists stasis. If it’s not growing, it’s falling apart. The inner fire that lets us know we are alive.
“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.” Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist)
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach” Henry Beston
“The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.” Stewart L. Udall
Elemental Nature
Having an elemental nature is just being alive. All people have an elemental nature, in that they break down into elements and merge uniquely. Life is a dance and everything dynamic. One may be an oceanic soul, another more earthy. Earth is very staid in your ways, resist pressure, firm in opinions. They like structure and being focused on topic. What’s the bad thing about earthy? Doesn’t hold up well under change, paranoid, prone to destructive shifts, and quakes under the right circumstances. I’m fire Water is receptive, fire is expressive. Both are fluid, changeable. I’m impassioned, flare my temper and… Seek More
Connection with Elemental Symbolism
Elementals is probably the most primal system of symbols we have. Even sciences four states of matter seem to parallel it. When we reduce events in our lives, and in nature, they can often be expressed in an elemental metaphor; fiery temper, airy thought, down to earth. Even the glyphic and numerological systems have their root in elemental symbolism. The elemental symbols are perhaps the most readily available framework we have for any of life experience. As my little boy said a couple of days ago when he saw a grill fire at Dairy queen, ‘fire ouch‘. Children are drawn at… Seek More
Access the Elements
We are nothing more than the minds reach away from the elements. The minds reach away from our own bodies and our minds obey us. But we forget we aren’t what we think we are, we just are. Thinking serves a purpose, but our purpose isn’t defined by thought. Myself, I am rather “fiery” and regrettably a lot of ideas get linked to fire. It is warmth and comfort. It’s intense and can stimulate visions as the pattern of light makes your visual center relax into cascading signals. It can also render barren or overgrown land more fertile and healthy.… Seek More
Cycle of Creation
The fires shifted, as energy is inclined to. Matter or earth was born of fire, as valid as fire, and it was the necessary factor for the process of condensation. Water. Mother earth gave us the waters, and from the waters arose the firmament, the air. And air and water gave us the chance for life. So in a sense fire “threatens” life, but it was also the origin though not gentle. Even the huge fire at the heart of our galaxy is still needed for our life. So fire is the most primal, but not necessarily is it “best”… Seek More
