• Celtic name: Airt
  • Egyptian name: Nef
  • Hebrew name: Ruach
  • Latin name: Aer
  • Greek name: Aer
  • Direction: East
  • Color: Yellow
  • Alchemical symbol: Right side up triangle with a line through the middle
  • Gender: Male
  • Energy: Projective, pro-active
  • Qualities: Hot and moist, light and active
  • Animal: Eagle, human
  • Nature: Sky, wind, clouds, flowers
  • Elemental: Sylph
  • Goddess aspect: Maiden
  • Part of the body: Chest, lungs (breath), throat (speech), the brain
  • Senses: Hear, smell
  • Season: Spring
  • Hour of day: Dawn
  • Time of life: Birth, infancy, childhood
  • Power of the Sphinx: To know
  • Magical tool: Athame, dagger, sword, incense
  • Point on the pentagram: Upper left
  • Stage in the cycle of creation: The conception or perception of a new idea, the seed of knowledge, and the freedom to choose which direction to move
  • Type of magick: Recovering lost or stolen items, the four winds, visualization, concentration, education, travel, investigations, beginnings, feather magick
  • Zodiac:
    • Libra: Fire of Air; Cardinal; Wind – Swift onset (note idea of balance as in trade winds)
    • Aquarius: Air of Air; Fixed; Clouds – Steady conveyors of water
    • Gemini: Water of Air; Mutable; Vibrations – Bulk unmoved, spiritualized to reflect mind
  • Reflection in humanity: The superconscious, knowledge, instruction, school, freedom, travel
  • Keys: Life principle, Intellect
  • Rules: Mind, essential qualities, knowledge, abstract learning, theories, illumination, perception, analytic thought, communication, memory
  • Virtues: Gregarious, diligent, optimistic, dexterity, persuasive, friendly, healthy, knowledgeable, communicative, intelligent
  • Vices: Frivolity, absent mindedness, rootless, easily distracted, intellectualize emotions (rather than experience them), gossipy, boastful, untruthful, selfish, fickle
  • Shortage: Mind blank, shortness of breath, non-comprehension of known data, muddy thinking, difficulty transmitting thoughts and ideas
  • Excess: Chatterbox, intellectualize too much
  • Emotions: Daydreaming; intense concentration on a difficult problem; an abstract appreciation of mathematical elegance, artistic skill, or superior craftsmanship; a sense of distance and detachment
  • Airy Tarot Cards: The Fool, The Magician, The Lovers, Justice, The Star, and Ace of Swords
may 20 2012 ∞
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