Sabrina Richiedei
Fuoco
Essential divine symbol, purifying and regenerating through understanding, through light and truth. Corresponds to the south, red, heart and this last reference is constant, whether fire represents passions or represents the spirit. The natural meaning goes from wandering souls to the divine spirit. The inner fire, which is at the same time knowledge, enlightenment and destruction. As the sun with its rays, so fire with its flames is a symbol of action. But at the same time its appearance obscures, burns, devours.
Aria
Symbol of spiritualization, symbolically associated with the wind, the breath. It represents the subtle world between heaven and earth, the world of expansion filled by the breath that is necessary for the survival of beings. The breath of life or cosmic breath is a sensitive symbol of invisible life, a purifier, intermediary between fire and water, the universal soul origin of the world, of the perception of colors and forms.
Acqua
Source of life, mean of purification and center of regeneration. The water is completely free and without constraints, and is allowed to flow along the slope of the ground, corresponds to the trigram k'an which means abysmal. Water is linked to lightning and fire. It is the origin of creation, the source of all things, it manifests the transcendent, it also presents a total ambivalence and at all levels, it is source of life and source of death, creative and destructive. The water of wisdom is in the heart of the wise, he is like a well or a spring, and his words have the strength of a stream.
Terra
The earth symbolically opposes the sky as a passive principle to the active principle; darkness to light; yin to yang; density, fixation and condensation to subtle, volatile nature, to dissolution. She sustains, while heaven covers. All beings receive birth from her, for she is female and mother. Positively, its virtues are sweetness, calm firmness and durable. The earth is the universal substance, the primordial chaos, the raw material separated from the waters. Universally it is a matrix that conceives of springs, minerals, metals. It gives and takes back life, the source of being, the protector against all forms of annihilation.
