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post Mar 9 2010, 12:23 PM
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I am hoping someone can shed some light on this for me.

In Wicca, they have the four elements combined with the four directions. You have North and Earth, West and Water, South and Fire, and East and Air. The four directions makes perfect sense, but the four elements doesn't.
The way it would make more sense to me is if Fire was opposite Air, and Water opposite Earth.

In our world, the fire is at the bottom and the air is on top, the water and earth are both in the middle and are opposite to each other.

Does anybody know a Wiccan tradition that had it this way?

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post Mar 9 2010, 05:16 PM
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Greetings Bym,

The reasoning for the elemental arrangement is from the earth (our planet). Not where on the Earth but the Earth itself. if you cut a cross-section through the Earth you have Fire and Air as opposites and Water and Earth as the other opposites. This way seems the correct way, more balanced.

Are there any books with information on these older Wiccan traditions?



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