However, it is most primal and for this reason is much used. This is the realm of sexuality and passion. It is at once the most physical and spiritual of the Elements. A ritual of Fire usually involves the fuming, burning or smouldering of an image, herb, or other flammable object, or the use of candles or small blazes. Its magick is usually practiced near the hearth, or beside fires lit in wilderness clearings, or beside the flame of a single candle.
Fire is masculine.
It rules the South, the place of greatest heat, the colour red, and the season of summer. All candle magick comes under Fire's powers. Just as Water is fluid, constantly changing, flowing from one level to another, so too are our emotions in a constant state of flux. Water is the Element of absorption and germination. The subconscious is symbolized by this Element because it is rolling, always moving, like the sea which rests neither night or day.