The Four Elements And Four Directions, seems a little off to me Options

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?

Thanks

The sentence about the giant stars should read:

in accordance with the placement of giant stars, but the giant stars he refers to were actually considered guardians of the seasonal quarters by the ancient Persians[u] millennia ago and the stars are not anywhere near where they were in 3000 years ago in the sky . . .

Yes. In the end, it is about being familiar with what is more or less done or is tradition in some parts (and perhaps knowing what is disinformation regarding claims about tradition.) and then adapting a ritual or system that makes personal sense to you.