The Elements
The four classical elements, their colors and attributions
Elemental Dignities
Using elements and card pairings as an additional layer of meaning
An overview of elemental dignities
Elemental Dignities, or ED for short is a technique that examines how to match the four classical elements - Air, Fire, Water, Earth - to each Tarot card, how these elements interact each other, the meanings we can extract from their interactions, and how this can be used to create a contextual layer of meaning to any Tarot reading.
ED is generally useful in all readings, but it comes in especially handy when using decks that don’t have a lot of imagery on them to help interpretation. Really, this whole website came about because
So that was a lot of words, let’s look at some concrete definitions and examples of how all those words actually apply: