Ghost in the Machine wrote:----
I partially answered some of these in my latest post where I quoted no one. I'll answer the rest.
Magnetism is generally ruled by the ida nadi, not by any chakras specifically. If it were to be any chakra specifically, it would be the Moon chakra or all feminine chakra. Similarly, electricity is generally ruled by the pingala nadi. If it had to be ruled by a chakra (which is not), it would be the solar plexus chakra, the Sun gate of the soul, or all masculine chakra. As I stated, Mercury is both electric and magnetic. That's why it is of aither, not air, as it was recently explained. It keeps the chakras in place with the magnetic fluid and allows circulation of energy in upward and downward motions through the electric fluid.
Like Mercury rules the internal connector, Uranus rules the external connector (the aura) which connects the soul to its surroundings. Again, this is neither just magnetic nor just electric. It is both. Magnetism is the power of contraction and attraction, and it's what enables the aura to attract things. It relies on the power of the earth element in your soul to draw material things to you and on the power of the water element in your soul to draw spiritual things to you. Electricity is the power of expansion and projection, and it's what enable your aura to energise anything/anyone in your surroundings and to project your power outwards. It relies on the power of the air and the fire elements in your soul, depending on the goal to accomplish. This is very simplicistic but it doesn't detract from being the foundation upon which we can expand into the details. Good thinking about electric blue.
The thing with the middle chakra symbol is it represents all four elements and by extension the fifth, if you look really well. Air and aither are connected in any case, even if aither is closer to fire. In Ayurveda air and aither make the Vata dosha, air as the main element and aither as the carrier element. Its refined version is prana. Being refined, it's aither only.
I don't believe for a second Uranus is an air planet. All trascendental/outer planets, being higher octaves of another planet, feel to me like more refined version of the latter. Planets are primordial archetypes of the causal realm, entirely spiritual. The four elements are of the astral realms and act as mediums for the planets to manifest in the material. What happens when a planet manifests through the filtre of an element? You get a Zodiac sign.
The five pillars of the soul are the gate of the elements in the soul, from what I can see. Fire in the southern pillar (back), air in the eastern pillar (right side of the body), water in the western pillar (left side of the body), earth in the northern pillar (front) and aither in the central pillar. Aither is always central, as can be seen. Both for the planetary gates (the chakra) and the elemental gates (the pillars). That's because it has the job of both holding the other elements together and to distribute the various parts of the soul in a central way, which are respectively magnetic and electric powers. These among other functions.
Before anyone argues that left side is water and right side is fire, let me stop you right there. We're looking at a four-arm wheel, like the wheel of the year, a svastika, a sun wheel. Not at the tao (yin/yang polarities). Let's not confuse elemental pillars with nadih.
The last thing is that gravity has nothing to do with air and it's basic knowledge that it has to do with the earth element, like you can find on ToZ. Air rules levitation and thus, also being the polar opposite of earth, rules weightlessness and absence of gravity. Gravity is what allows you to sink into the depth, air allows to soar into the skies. Air lacks depth, as highlighted in the air element page, but not only. One the flaws ruled by Gemini (Mercury + air) is superficiality, shallowness. This is lack of depth with a different name. (One very nasty flaw, among the most undesirable). Both Gemini and Mercury rule the colour yellow, which rules the same flaw and can be used to induce it in other people through "black" magick.
Breathing exercises are not about the air element. From the physical side, it's specifically the bringing in of oxygen into the lungs, which is then collected by the blood and distributed throughout the body. Oxygen is what brings the energy, blood is notoriously ruled by fire and by the Sun, and the plasma in it is ruled by water. This very simplicistically as I'm no biologist. From the spiritual side it can be prana or any other type of energy that you're consciously drawing in into your nadih.
I won't go much in the assertion that heat is related to air as we both should know that heat is a property of fire. In Ayurveda air is described as cool, light, mobile, rough and so on. Air rules kinetic energy. In other words movement. Not heat. While it may be true that heat depends on how fast the atoms move in a compound, that has little to do with the properties of air. It would be like heating ice past the the melting point turning it into water and saying that fire rules both heat and water, just because the heat generated water. More theorethically it would be like saying that cause and effect are the same thing.
My invite is to try not to generalise too much, as it leads to several inaccuracies as in this case.
To both, what I'm saying is that you're both partially right in this and there's no need for the original heated tones you had toward each other.
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Sources:
About the pillars and the elements: https://templeofzeus.org/The_Chakras.phpExternal ↗
Akasha is related to fire:
Earth and gravity: https://templeofzeus.org/Invoking_Earth.phpExternal ↗
Middle chakra and aither: https://ancient-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=23341 (and many other sermons)
Personal experience (nearly 9 years)
I have confliction with a lot of this from personal experiences and other reasons but I'm not going to say you're wrong. Sometimes it takes a bit for me to take something in... and sometimes writing and discussing it leads me to better understandings, so with that...
I don't believe your incorrect in that Earth rules gravity, it is of course very obvious, but my perception is that Air also rules gravity as like you said it is the absence of gravity or a force against it of which in a sense it's still ruling gravity, is it not? Take in a sense that Air is the lighter weightlessness of the force behind gravity and Earth is the heavier density of it. They are both opposite extremes of the central force of what gravity is which is a form of magnetism and if as you said really is true, is of Aether, so gravity is essentially of neither Earth nor Air, but the two alter the balance of the force's extremes both in lacking and in profuse.
My focus on Air being used for electrokinesis and electricity was more so on a force aspect like telekinesis. Like you said air rules kinetic energy and it is in fact physical forces upon electrons (electrons themselves could be said to be of Aether based upon your information) that creates the atomic environment that produces electricity like lightning. As far as I'm aware this is the prime means to working with electricity on the atomological level. Energy itself or the basis behind electrons of an atom could be Aether but I require further information. My assumption was air is some form of basis for energy in some way, it's production, it's circulation, etc, but I've been corrected on things before.
My reasons for claiming Uranus and Mercury as planets of the Air element is due to their rulerships. A lot of paired rulerships such as colours and elements and gems share properties of one another in that they seem to enforce each other in some way due to their similarities. My feeling was that the planets coincide with elements and colours that in some way relate to each other in properties and rulerships.
Jupiter shares properties with it's ruling colours of blue and purple for example, and most planets energies as far as I've come to tell are empowered when they are in signs of the very elements that share their rulerships and they are weakened in signs of elements they do not rule which upsets the balance of it's rulerships thus it's energies.
Uranus and Mercury share massive relations with the properties of the air element what with communications, speech, technology, etc. This isn't to say they do not rule a second or third element like some planets do like Jupiter. I feel Jupiter is of water, fire and quintessence, of which could explain why it's such a beneficial planet as that is quite a good balance to counter negative properties when it comes to elements.
So with all of this you generally see why I've come to believe what I've stated.