Re: Soul Mirrors and the Elements - FIRE

[Amberlyn <amberlyn@...>]

Hi Rawn,

Thank you for clarifying!

> The relationship between your character traits and the Elements cannot
> be perceived with the rational intellect alone. This is why Bardon
> suggests that the student meditate deeply upon each of the Elements and
> upon the character traits. Meditation taps into *more than* just the
> rational intellect and reveals an understanding of the Elements
> unattainable by just thinking.

YES! I will be posting about Water soon, and I touch on this very aspect. 
Water reaches into our subconscious minds and fishes out hidden knowledge. 
This is the realm of intuition and psychic awareness.

> I suggest that you apply the Step One
> mental techniques of one-pointedness and emptiness of mind meditation to
> delve deeper into the Elements instead of focusing just upon lists of
> character trait and Element associations.

Agreed. Such lists are like books on dream interpretations. Curious, but 
personally rather useless. I sometimes find archetypical examples that make 
sense to me, and sometimes elemental attributes also make sense to me. In 
these cases, I might form a spider-web frame for my own understanding, but 
then I depend on my inner Voice to say what's true for me. Sometimes the 
web holds, and sometimes it gets dashed apart <g>.

> >> That said, I *think* the strong emotions full of energy belong to
> Fire because of the projective or electrical energy they contain. <snip>
> Feelings like shyness are felt inwardly - drawn
> there magnetically IMO, and so belong to Water and emotions. <<
>
> In general, you've got the right idea. The problem though, is that the
> items you've listed are the *results of* character traits. Anger, for
> example, is a Fiery *symptom* or *effect*, it is not a *root trait*.
> With the Soul Mirror work, you must find the root itself. The root of
> anger *might* be Fiery in nature but it can also be Airy or Watery or
> Earthy. This is why I say that these broad terms *must* be broken down
> situationally and examined until you've recognized their root cause.

Thank you Rawn. You've opened another memory <smile>... Long years ago when 
I was working intensely with Elements, et al, I was taught to break these 
down even further, such as Fire of Fire, Fire of Air, Fire of Water and 
Fire of Earth. This process *might* help some of us when we are on the line 
between two Elements. Also, breaking traits down help determine whether 
they are positive or negative. Anger can fall just about anywhere.

> The Elemental attribution of your own character traits is a VERY
> personal matter, so lists of correspondences only serve a limited
> usefulness in this regard. What exists as a Fiery trait for one person
> may well be Watery for you, so even if you do find your trait in a list,
> you must still examine it and decide *for yourself* which Element it
> truly belongs to for *you*.

I agree. The attributes I gave were meant only as examples, nothing more. 
In spite of what I know about the elements, I use mostly intuition for 
assigning my own Soul Mirror elemental attributes, and then, after 
meditating, often go back and change some. This Mirror is magical - it 
seems to waver and shift constantly <smile>.

Amberlyn