Water Element

Water rules emotions, dreams, compassion, love, sadness, psychicism, healing, rest, cleansing, dissolution, astral travel, death, rebirth, soothing, flowing, and changing.

• Direction: West
• Gender: Feminine, receptive 
• Virtue: To dare 
• Pentagram: Upper right
• Color: Blues, silvers, purple
• Archangel: Gabriel 
• Kerub: Eagle 
• Tarot: Cups, Moon, Death, Lovers
• Hour: Dusk
• Days: Mondays, Friday
• Beings: Undines
• King: Nixsa 
• Totem: Bear
• Animals: Fish, dolphins, sea animals, crocodile, cat, frog, turtle, dolphin, whale, otter, seal
• Mythological Beings: Merpeople, sea monsters,
• Herbs: Alder, Hazel, Willow, Fern, Aloe, Lemon, Yarrow, American Elm, Myrtle, Bier, Violet, Aquatic plants, lotus, moss, reeds, rushes, sea-weed, watercress, water lilly, willow, roses, succulents, lettuce, gardenia, flowers in general 
• Stones: Aquamarine, Lapis, limestone, moonstone, pearl, rose quartz, sodalite, Crystal, coral, sea salt, jade, Mother-of-Pearl, pearl, amethyst, aquamarine, blue tourmaline
• Planet: Moon, Venus ,Neptune, Saturn,
• Zodiac: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces 
• Season: Autumn
• Moon Phase: Full 
• Age: Adult
• Magick: Love, purification, peace, healing, psychic workings, fertility, emotional
• Positive Characteristics: compassion, loving, forgiving, sensitive, easy-going, modest
• Negative characteristics: overly sensitive, weepy, dependent, indifferent, lazy, insecure, frigid. 
• Tools: Goblet, chalice, bowl, cauldron, ring, sickle 
• Chakra: Navel (heart) 
• Symbols: downward triangle, circle with line horizontally through the middle, half moon facing upward, waves, water, water vessel, pitcher, snowflake, raindrop, shells,
• Quality: Cleansing, healing, emotional, empathic
• Magic: Healing, love, purification, psychic work, weather magic, fertility
• Other: Nurture, emotions, the subconscious, the Otherworld, transformation, mystery, compassion, secrets, fertility
• Incense: Lotus, myrrh, aromatic rush roots
• Rituals: purification, love, psychic awareness, dreams, sleep, peace, marriage, friendship
• Ritual forms: dilution,washing away, bathing
• Metals: mercury, silver, copper
• Musical instruments: cymbal, bell
• Sense: taste

Invocations of Water

• Water! Power of the West, I summon you! I ask you to guard my circle and witness my rites. Hail and Welcome.
• I call upon the element of Water. Powers of the West, bring your emotion to me! Undines, I summon you to guard the Circle! Hail and welcome.
• Water! [Word association]. Hail and welcome to the Circle.
• Ye Lords of the Watchtowers of the West, the element of Water. By seas, rivers, streams and rain, I summon thee to guard my Circle and witness my Rites. Hail and welcome.