Element in Focus – Earth

Fall Equinox – Winter Solstice

September 21st – December 21st

Earth Basics

Earth represents the tangible part of life and the physical body. This element defines our relationship to structure, security and sensory experiences.

Balanced Earth

Reliable, grounded, cautious, practical, enduring, solid, dutiful, consistent, fertility and growth

Earth in the Body

All structural components such as bones, joints, skin, and the digestive process. Extra focus on the throat, knees, and digestive system.

Excessive Earth

Use food as comfort

Resistance to change

Miserly or hoarding behaviors

Excessive stubbornness

Lack of whimsy

Hyperfocus on materiality

Slow to take action

Stuck in routines

Scarcity mindset

Deficient Earth

Patterns of instability

Unable to maintain projects

Struggle to manifest goals

Lacking material security

Reputation for being unreliable

Impatient and impulsive

Difficulty with routines

No concern for tradition

Diminished peace and comfort

Earth Details

Gender: Yin

Opposing Element: Air

Qualities: Cold and Dry

Temperament: Melancholic

Humor: Black Bile

Season: Autumn

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Alchemical Facial

Earth Properties

Fixed = Taurus: The Garden

Mutable = Virgo: The Apothecary

Cardinal = Capricorn: The Builder

Smudge

Cedar -Brings resilience and invites a spirit of calm endurance to help with change and transitions

Crystals

Moss Agate: Considered “the stone of mother nature”. Instills peace, calm and tranquility while promoting prosperity and growth.

Petrified Wood: A combination of fossil and crystal that promotes stability, endurance, security and safety.

Moon in Taurus -The Moon universally represents our physical body and the desire for safety and security. Due to the changing nature of her waxing and waning phases, these concepts are often the most difficult to stabilize.

When the moon moves through the earthy sign of Taurus, she is able to find her most concrete forms of expression and is most capable of physically manifesting her ideas, plans and dreams.

Venus in Libra – Venus is the universal symbol of the 5 senses and the concept of peace, harmony and comfort. She is the planetary ruler of Taurus and Libra and has extra strength while in these signs.

As she moves through Libra she is strengthened which in turn infuses the Moon in Taurus with additional mojo and emphasize her desire to generate more Venusian influences in our lives.

This pairing promotes embodied experiences, more peace and relaxation and enjoyment of the comforts and pleasures in life.

Steep – Motherwort, oat straw, heal all, plantain, raspberry leaf, blessed thistle, chamomile, lady’s mantle, hops, eleuthero root, milk thistle seed, white chrysanthemum, mugwort, blue poppy seed, fenugreek, watercress, catnip, and orris root.

Oil – Organic and wildcrafted Luna in Taurus blend of beautifying herbs in a luxurious blend of rose hip c02, olive-derived squalane, and jojoba oils. Infused with remedial-grade pearl and 1% hyaluronic acid.

Supportive Earth energy from the Moon in Taurus, conjunct Jupiter in Taurus at the midheaven degree in Taurus. Expertly crafted by Sphere and Sundry.

Mist – Water harvested from Mt. Shasta, distilled via copper alembic with consecrated exalted Luna herbs, white lotus, white gold, and remedial-grade pearl.

Supportive Earth energy from the Moon in Taurus, conjunct Jupiter in Taurus at the midheaven degree in Taurus. Expertly crafted by Sphere and Sundry.

Tonic – Witch’s grass, skullcap, woodruff, burdock root, elderberry, devil’s claw, Solomon’s seal, stone root, nettle root and leaf, maca, horny goat weed, goldenseal, clove, red root, and foti.

Supportive Earth energy with Capricorn rising and Mercury, Venus, and Mars in Capricorn, Jupiter in Taurus, and Moon in Virgo. Expertly crafted by Sphere and Sundry.

Candle – Virgin soy poured over consecrated, powdered Luna in Taurus herbs, crowned with white gold and moonstone.

Tincture – Tincture of motherwort, oat straw, heal all, plantain, raspberry leaf, blessed thistle, chamomile, lady’s mantle, hops, eleuthero root, milk thistle seed, white chrysanthemum, mugwort, blue poppy seed, fenugreek, watercress, catnip, and orris root. White lotus, and Jyotish remedial-grade pearl.

Supportive Earth energy from the Moon in Taurus, conjunct Jupiter in Taurus at the midheaven degree in Taurus. Expertly crafted by Sphere and Sundry.

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Dyad + Elements

Dyad is scientifically and philosophically connected to the traditional Western elements of air, fire, earth and water.

These four elements exist in everyone, giving us unique qualities, harmonies, and imbalances that can influence our physical and emotional well-being.

Understanding the symbolic and practical nature of each element can help us better understand ourselves and others.

The Alchemical Facial is connected to the annual journey of the Sun as its movements guide us through the different elements, cycles and seasons.

The major turning points are defined by solstices and equinoxes. Similarly, the focus of the Alchemical Facial changes on these dates in order to maintain alignment with the Aristotelian qualities of the current moment in time.

We hope the information provided can serve to increase awareness of how these forces are at work in your life, and help you feel more connected to the rhythms of the world around you.

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