Elemental pairings
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Let’s look at how elements interact with each other
Friends
Air and Fire are both active elements, moving fast and breaking things, favouring change and action. They feed each other and support each other.
Water and Earth are both passive elements, slow and steady, favouring stillness and inaction. They support each other, augmenting each other’s characteristics. Earth turns Water to mud, Water sharing its speed while Earth shares its stability.
Air and Water are friendly and neutral to each other, one active and another passive. They don’t fight each other, there’s no antagonism, but their support is not as strong as between active/active and passive/passive elements. Unstable, lacking structure. It can be rain, or fog, ideas fighting through emotions, emotions trying to win over ideas.
Fire and Earth are also friendly and neutral to each other. Fire will heat up the earth, slowly and steadily, but with no movement - an hearth slowly radiating heat.
Enemies
Air and Earth are incompatible with each other, therefore whenever they’re together in a reading, they’re going to be at odds, weakening each others influence. Earth will trap Air, not letting it go anywhere; Air will blow inefectually at Earth, unable to move it.
Fire and Water are incompatible with each other, therefore whenever they’re together in a reading, they’re going to be at odds, weakening each others influence. Water douses Fire, turning it into steam.