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Air

Dictionary; 1. a colorless, odorless, tasteless gaseous mixture mainly nitrogen (aprox. 78 per cent) and oxygen (aprox. 21 p.c.) with lesser amounts of aroon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, and other gases. b. this mixture with varying amounts of moisture, low altitude pollutants, and particular matter, enveloping the earth; the atmosphere c. the air or atmospheric movement; breeze; wind in the air 1. Abroad; prevalent. 2. uncertain; not settled; being thought out or formulated.

Air, connected with "life" and "soul" in mythology mysticism and magic, because living creatures cannot survive without it. Connected with maat the egiptian goddess of truth and with the card "the fool" in the tarot pack, is the god Zeus for the Greeks and in western astrology is the archetypes, Gemini, Aquarious and Libra.

Learning to control breathing is the basis of many eastern paths to spiritual enlightenment. God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. This connection between breath and the source of life is found in many religions and myths. Since air was life, man and animals cannot live without it anymore than without blood. It was possible that a woman might be impregnated by it. In egipt the withure maat was supposed to reproduce her species with the intervention of the wind. The Virgin Mary was also said to have been conceived at the impulse of a breath. Air was not only the substance of the divine spirit, but also the home of the spirits in plural. Angels, demons, ghosts and the fairies called sylphs inhabited the air.

This conception grew out of the earliest embodiments of storm, hurricane, wind, rain, night and day, which man earliest reasoning likened to the various animals that surrounded him, and which he thought of in animal form.

The fool is the first of the cards, the origins which all others proceed, it stands for the nothing in before anything existed, which contained in itself, the potential of existence of everything, the ultimate truth (the goddess maat) behind all the surface phenomena of the universe, it is associated with the element of air in the sense of a vaccum, an emptiness, and is identified with God as pure nothingness having no identifiable characteristics but containing all things.