She turns the Spindle through the night, and gathers up the black with might. She plucks a hair from 'pon her head and makes a Spindle to hold all thread. The Dame takes measure of all she spies, white thread from black soon she'll pries. It implies completeness and integration.īeen used by herbalists, images © Paul Huson Symbolic form is an image of wholeness and a point for the focus Union of the Spirit and the Soul which produces the new body ofĬaricature of one of the phases of this Lunar orb which The union with all three levels of reality, the Marriage or It often depicted as a sign for the female gender. Over the cross of elements representing spirit over matter and Thrusting, aggressive energies, this symbol has also been used The lunar crescent rising above the cross of the four elementsĪnd becoming receptive to the light of Spirit.Ī circle with a cross on top signifying matter over spirit,Įventually the small cross became an arrow representing the Line that runs through it that stands for the earthly plane of Interpreted as a sickle that points downward with a horizontal Wiccans as my own personal practice calls for a different set of These colors that I have chosen for theĮlements symbols do not follow the traditional usage of those used by To consider, I have simply used alternating bright and subtle shades to draw attention to the The colors used here are not the important element Symbols used by Alchemists for the Elements say much about theirĪrchetypal origins. The symbols and associated lore that is shared below. It is hoped that you may find some benefit from Have both magical and mundane as well as public and private uses. Symbols have ambiguous definitions and interpretations that vary fromĮra to era and culture to culture and have been used in both subtle and Modes of expression and have also been found in the areas of archeologyĪnd anthropology, heraldry, mythology and folklore. Throughout time, they have been used to depict specific cultural iconsĪnd used as metaphoric extensions of speech and writing in theĪdvertising world, political arena, as well as for religious and psychological These symbols have been used as distinct signifiers and markers Multiple items of reference into a sole figure that when viewed impartsĪ myriad of intellectual and intuitive ideas at once to the
Or a variety of entities, they have also been used to abbreviate Have been used to encode complex ideologies in a complete single entity Graphic representations in the form of signsĪnd symbols have been used since cavemen first scratched on damp andĭank cave walls millennia ago in order to express latent ideas. Neither rational nor irrational, neither real nor unreal. The symbol is neither abstract nor concrete, Intermediate realm of subtle reality which can only be adequatelyĮxpressed by the symbol. Or medium of realization is neither mind nor matter, but that
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