Aether

Post date: Aug 13, 2013 7:11:52 PM

1. Sky, upper air - yet still beneath the realm of Ouranos, the iron sky...

2. Bright, purified air

3. The fifth element (the first four being earth, water, air and fire)

4. Equivalent to Metal in the Chinese elemental system; the Greeks viewed the upper heavens (the realm of Ouranos; see #1) as composed of metal

5. The divine or immortal portion of the Soul, represented in the Flight of the Chariot as the Charioteer(s); represented in astrology as the horoskopos or Ascending Degree