Are You an Earth Witch?

Continuing along the pattern of writing about elemental witches, we now come to the Earth Witch. Remember that we all have all of the elements running through us and can access any and all of them when we put the work into that. However, some are just born much stronger in the element of Earth than are others.

When an Earth Witch is out of balance and needs to get back into harmony within the self, they will experience the following:

1. Stubbornness beyond all logic or reason.
2. Needing at least 5 weeks notice of any changes coming up, including things like promotions, change in career, relationship changes, and even life and death circumstances. Earth Witches, when out of balance will struggle with these changes. The slightest change can feel like it is coming out of the blue entirely, when in reality there were many signs along the way.
3. Holding onto what always was instead of embracing the new. Sentiment and nostalgia will be running continual programs for an Earth Witch when out of balance. That sentiment and nostalgia keeps the Earth Witch trapped in what always was or in what always shoulda/woulda/coulda been. This prevents them from accessing their authentic selves.
4. In extreme cases there can be a physical aggression expressed without the Earth Witch even consciously recognizing it as aggression. Examples of this will be standing too close to someone when having a debate, making fists unconsciously, pounding a fist on a table or into a wall.

So, what are the signs that you may be an Earth Witch?

1. You might enjoy physical exercise, body building, running, hot yoga, and eating very well. Physicality is something that an Earth Witch will thrive on. Many, when confined to a desk job or some such circumstance, will feel like they could just crawl right out of their skin because of the lack of kinesthetic stimulation. Earth Witches will also, when shopping, find that they have to pick something up, hold it, feel it, smell it, taste it etc before they will be comfortable with purchasing it. Earth Witches can be extremely frugal, so that certainty is important for the feeling of good decision making when shopping for anything.
2. You might have a strong connection to working with plants, indoors or out in the garden. Many Earth Witches will go into careers that involve these things, be it opening a greenhouse, farming, herbology, soil sampling, lapidary work, opening a crystal shop, athletics,  etc. All of these things appeal to the Earth Witch and the earth element that courses through their veins.
3. You might feel a strong connection to trees. Many an Earth Witch has found themselves working as an arborist, or planting trees or working in forestry.
4. You might feel deeply connected to rocks, crystals, crystal energies, and the great outdoors in general. Earth Witches often, as they hold a crystal, can “hear” the consciousness of that crystal. They will be able to know which of the multitude of crystals will assist in bringing balance into a particular situation or which will enhance healing for whatever illness. Many end up going into medical practice and find themselves to be quite gifted in diagnostics as well as anything from general medicine to surgery. In a complementary way, they may also be drawn more towards massage and reflexology, kinesiology, Naturopathy and sports massage.
5. You might enjoy working with your hands. There are many Earth Witches I know who have gone into careers such as mechanics, carpentry, weldning, sewing, tailoring, upholstery and textiles.
6. Ritually speaking, and Earth Witch will resonate better with a ritual involving “giving it to the earth” as a release than they will a ritual involving fire, water or air. However, they will often be drawn to the sound of a drum in ritual because the sound of a drum resonates extremely closely to the vibrations of the Earth, herself.
7. Earth Witches will also often be drawn to slow cooked meals as opposed to fast foods. They know the difference in dietary nutrition on a deep instinctual level, but the process of cooking things from scratch will feel more like a meditation to them than a chore. They will be intuitively gifted when it comes to making soups and stews in particular.
8. Earth Witches will be drawn more to expressing their spirituality in Nature than they will in any church or temple.
9. Earth Witches will often be described by their friends as “the salt of the earth” because they tend to be quite grounded and practical, and they do so while they are also giving. When I think of a tarot card with a woman holding a cornocopia, the image immediately brings to mind the Earth Witch who provides from the abundance of the Earth.
10. Earth Witches are excellent growers and foragers. They will have an instinct to learn the many edible plants in Nature and they will enjoy growing vegetables, herbs and crops.
11. A subcategory of the Earth Witch is the Kitchen Witch, who has an entire apocethary of herbs, roots, spices etc in their kitchen for making brews, teas, soups and so on. One of my grandmothers was a mix of an Air Witch and a Kitchen Witch. She would often take me out foraging for herbs and mushrooms. Her thing was to see the herb, touch it, smell it, taste it, ask it if it will be willing to be utilized, and then picking it respectfully. I learned so much from her, and I am sure I knew things back then that I have since forgotten. The good thing about that, though, is that when a circumstance pops up that requires the long lost memory I will instantly feel it bubble up from the cobwebs of my mind, giving me the instight and wisdom to know what to use and how to use it.

So, how do Earth Witches tend to successfully get back into balance if they are not already there? You can try a number of things:

1. Sit on the ground under a tree and rest your back against the tree. The energy of the Earth flows through the tree and it can help to balance and ground your energy system.
2. Walk barefoot on the ground (in the spring-fall). If it is winter then it is helpful to have potting soil in a large mixing bowl and sink your hands into it. Feel the moisture and the feeling of the soil between your fingers. Take a scoop of the soil and bring it up to your nose to take in the scent. This is why gardening works so well. Hands in the soil and the scent of the earth brings you back into your body.
3. Hold a grounding crystal in your hands.
4. Use a grounding mat at the foot of your bed.
5. Get some #2 pencils or some sticks or inexpensive chopsticks, focus your frustration into them and, once it feels like the negative and disruptive energy is in the wood, snap it in half and then burn it or burry it.
6. Have your energy balanced by an energy worker (preferably one who uses crystals and drumming).
7. Sit on a chair and lift one foot up, then bring it down hard on the floor. Repeat this with the other foot. This helps to stimulate the chakras in the soles of the feet and activates the absorption of Earth energy into your energy system.
8. Wrap yourself in a weighted blanket.
9. Go for a walk in a park or out in Nature.
10. Hold a piece of iron. Iron is extremely gounding and does not absorb negative energies. It will instead drop those energies into the Earth where they will easily be recycled into positive energy.
11. Massage Therapy can be beneficial to an Earth Witch as it helps to keep the person in their body while also releasing tension, stress and blockages.

No matter which type of element you are born into or strongest in, there are varieties of ways to use that element to bring balance and harmony into your life.