Elemental Dignities help the tarot reading modify the meaning of a card in a tarot spread. The use of Elements as a philosophy dates back to Empedocles (c. 490 BC – c. 430 BC) who was a Greek presocratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily.
He maintained that all matter is made up of four Elements (which he called roots): water, earth, air and fire. In addition to these, he postulated something called Love (philia) to explain the attraction of different forms of matter, and of something called Strife (neikos) to account for their separation.
Elemental Dignity Rules:
Water & Earth: passively friendly
Fire & Air: actively friendly
Fire & Earth: neutrally supports
Water & Air: neutrally supports
Fire & Water: unfriendly, weakens
Air & Earth: unfriendly, weakens
Posted on September 18th, 2005 by Leisa
Filed under: Events, Tarot
