East

Core Attributes

• ✨Tarot:✨🔮Swords suit, The Fool, Ace of Swords, The Star
• ✨Element:✨🌬️ Air
• ✨Astrological:✨♊ Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
• ✨Numerology:✨1️⃣ 1
• ✨Archetype:✨🎭 The Thinker • The Visionary • The Messenger • The Seeker of Truth • The Inventor
• ✨Energy:✨⚡Clear • Quick • Expansive • Insightful • Awakening
• ✨Keywords:✨🗝
  • Upright Keywords for East:
  • Clarity
  • Awakening
  • Communication
  • Inspiration
  • Truth
  • Fresh beginnings
  • Movement
  • Ideas
  • Focus
  • Awareness
  • Reversed Keywords for East:
  • Confusion
  • Scattered thoughts
  • Miscommunication
  • Overthinking
  • Indecision
  • Mental fog
  • Restlessness
  • Lack of clarity
  • Detachment
  • Anxiety
• ✨Basic Meaning:✨📖 The Direction of East is the realm of dawn, awakening, and the breath of new beginnings. Associated with the Element of Air, East governs clarity, intellect, communication, and inspiration. It is the place where darkness lifts and vision emerges, the spark of realization before action. East teaches us to see with fresh eyes, to speak truth, and to open ourselves to possibility. In ritual, East brings cleansing winds, renewed focus, and a clear path ahead. Its energy is crisp, bright, and full of promise, the first light of a new cycle. In ritual, East brings cleansing winds, renewed focus, and clear intention – the first breath of creation and the light of awakening.

Symbols & Associations

• ✨Gemstones:✨💎 Citrine, Clear Quartz, Apophyllite, Selenite, Fluorite, Yellow Calcite
• ✨Herbs:✨🌿Lemongrass, Lavender, Mint, Sage, Bay Leaf, Eucalyptus
• ✨Runes:✨ᚠ Ansuz, Gebo, Dagaz
• ✨Tree:✨🌳 Birch, Aspen
• ✨Chakra:✨🌀 Throat Chakra, Third Eye Chakra

Cultural and Mythological Links

• ✨Deities:✨👑 Hermes, Thoth, Saraswati, Athena, Shu, Aurora
• ✨Sabbats:✨🐣 Ostara
• ✨Archangel:✨👼 Raphael
• ✨Shem Angel:✨🪽 Rehael
• ✨Native American Totem Animals:✨🦉 Eagle, Hawk, Butterfly, Hummingbird
• ✨I-Ching:✨📜 Hexagram 57 – The Gentle
• ✨Tree of Life:✨🌲 Hod – Splendor: Intellect, communication, logic, and mental brilliance

Additional Details

✨Timing (When it should come about):✨⏳ Quickly – swift clarity, sudden insight

✨Season:✨🌷 Spring

✨Month:✨📅 March – May

✨Day of the Week:✨🗓 Wednesday

✨Time of the Day:✨🌞 Dawn / Sunrise

✨Yes/No Answer:✨✅❌ Yes – if clarity and communication are applied

✨Colors:✨🎨 Yellow, White, Pale Blue, Soft Gold

✨Aura Colors:✨🌈 Light blue, Silver-white, Soft yellow

✨Moon Phase:✨🌙 Waxing Crescent

✨Weather:✨⛅ Windy, clear skies, cool morning air

✨Metal:✨⚙️ Mercury

✨Scents:✨🌸 Lemongrass, Mint, Lavender, Eucalyptus

✨Chocolate:✨🍫 White chocolate with lemon or mint

✨Candle Type:✨🕯️Chime Candles, Spiral Candles, Morning Candles

✨Common Associations:✨🔗 New beginnings • Truth • Clarity • Communication • Inspiration • Thought • Vision • Awakening

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