Maveriker
This deck is more about relationships between cards and elements, so I think this study group might do well to start on the basic elemental associations and then move on to the Majors and Courts, which represent combinations of elements and relate to the various combinations Minors come up in.
So up first, the Elements:
Air: Thinking. Thought processes, the mind, communication and movement. The region in the body from the throat up. Prana, and the inward reception of sensory input, which also connects to the nervous system. Air is the least restricted of the Four Elements, being able to jump quickly from one place to the next — often in seemingly random order — in the same way that the mind can jump from one thing to a completely unrelated thing and then to something else entirely. Air is freedom and freshness, and does not like to be constrained… but it has a tendency to disconnect from the more tangible elements. Soft Yang.
Fire: Doing. Action and reaction. From thinking, we move to action. The movement here is less subtle than that of air, it has force behind it. Fire is also the element of transformation; it changes gasses into liquids and solids, and changes liquids and solids back into gas. Liquids, solids, and gasses are the fuel for Fire, and change its behaviour. The movement of fire is expansive, but not as jumpy as air — it spreads only as far as it can touch, or as far as its heat can touch. Light, sight, illumination, inspiration, passion. Hard Yang.
Water: Feeling. Sensations, emotions, sexuality and sensuality. Intuition, the subconscious and the unconscious. Fluids in the body as the vehicle for nourishment and digestion. Alone, water's movement is slow, but steady. Powerful, heavy, and forceful… but often under appreciated and unacknowledged. The dissolver, the blender, the merger. Internal knowing, internal study. The bridge from the mind to the body, and from thinking to being. Soft Yin.
Earth: Being. Rest, solidity, stability. Experience and wisdom. Practicality, pragmatism, and earthly concerns of existence — the basic needs of the tangible realm. Earth is the slowest of the elements, and that lack of speed can reduce its force when acting alone. Density and clarity, organization. At its best, earth also represents crystalline structure, and the clarity of crystals is a result of that organized density. The real, the tangible, the manifest — bringing things into being. The illusion of permanence. Creation and the womb. Hard Yin.
So up first, the Elements:
Air: Thinking. Thought processes, the mind, communication and movement. The region in the body from the throat up. Prana, and the inward reception of sensory input, which also connects to the nervous system. Air is the least restricted of the Four Elements, being able to jump quickly from one place to the next — often in seemingly random order — in the same way that the mind can jump from one thing to a completely unrelated thing and then to something else entirely. Air is freedom and freshness, and does not like to be constrained… but it has a tendency to disconnect from the more tangible elements. Soft Yang.
Fire: Doing. Action and reaction. From thinking, we move to action. The movement here is less subtle than that of air, it has force behind it. Fire is also the element of transformation; it changes gasses into liquids and solids, and changes liquids and solids back into gas. Liquids, solids, and gasses are the fuel for Fire, and change its behaviour. The movement of fire is expansive, but not as jumpy as air — it spreads only as far as it can touch, or as far as its heat can touch. Light, sight, illumination, inspiration, passion. Hard Yang.
Water: Feeling. Sensations, emotions, sexuality and sensuality. Intuition, the subconscious and the unconscious. Fluids in the body as the vehicle for nourishment and digestion. Alone, water's movement is slow, but steady. Powerful, heavy, and forceful… but often under appreciated and unacknowledged. The dissolver, the blender, the merger. Internal knowing, internal study. The bridge from the mind to the body, and from thinking to being. Soft Yin.
Earth: Being. Rest, solidity, stability. Experience and wisdom. Practicality, pragmatism, and earthly concerns of existence — the basic needs of the tangible realm. Earth is the slowest of the elements, and that lack of speed can reduce its force when acting alone. Density and clarity, organization. At its best, earth also represents crystalline structure, and the clarity of crystals is a result of that organized density. The real, the tangible, the manifest — bringing things into being. The illusion of permanence. Creation and the womb. Hard Yin.