Quarter Correspondences

Wiccans go around in Circles!

Worship and magic both are done in what are called Magical Circles. The purpose of a circle is to separate the people within it from the outside world. They are outside of time and space. Time passes differently inside a circle, and it tends to be warmer inside than outside.

Each Circle is divided into four Quarters. Each Quarter faces a direction. Each Quarter also corresponds to a time of day, a state of being, a season, etc. This is a table of those correspondences.

  Symbol

Quarter East South West   North

Keyword To Know To Will To Feel   To Be Still

Time   Dawn Noon Dusk Midnight

Season Spring Summer Autumn Winter

  Tools   Sword Wand, Censor Cup Pentacle

Drawn By Incense Fire, Incense Water Salt

Colors   Yellow, White, Blue-White, White Gold Red, Crimson, Orange, Gold   Blue, Blue-green, Grey, Indigo, Silver   Green, Brown, Black, Copper

Animals All birds and flying things, esp. eagles and Hawks Dragons, lions, running horses   Dolphins, all fish and water mammals, sea snakes, sea birds Stags, Cattle, Bison, Snakes

Plants Frankincense, myrrh, pansy, violet; Aspen Garlic, hibiscus, nettle, peppers, poppies; Almond tree in flower Ferns, lotus, mosses, rushes, seaweeds, water lilies; Willow Comfrey, Ivy, all grains and grasses; Oak

Goddesses Aradia, Arianrhod, Nuit, Cordea Brigit, Hestia, Pele, Vesta   Aphrodite, Isis, Mari Ceres, Demeter, Gaea, Persephone, Rhiannon

Gods Mercury, Thoth, Shu, Enlil, Khephera Agni, Hephaestus, Horus, Vulcan Dylan, Llyr, Manannan, Osiris, Neptune, Poseidon Adonis, Arawn, Cernunnos, Dionysus, Pan

Rules   The mind, all mental, intuitive and psychic work; all windy places; breath, smell   Energy, life, will, healing and purification; heat, flame, the Sun, volcanoes; sight Emotions, feelings, love, sorrow, the unconscious mind; all oceans, rivers, springs, tides and rain; fertility The body, growth, creativity, birth, death, silence, material gain; caves, groves, fields, standing stones; touch

Symbol
Quarter	East	South	West	North
Keyword	To Know	To Will	To Feel	To Be Still
Time	Dawn	Noon	Dusk	Midnight
Season	Spring	Summer	Autumn	Winter
Tools	Sword	Wand, Censor	Cup	Pentacle
Drawn By	Incense	Fire, Incense	Water	Salt
Colors	Yellow, White, Blue-White, White Gold	Red, Crimson, Orange, Gold	Blue, Blue-green, Grey, Indigo, Silver	Green, Brown, Black, Copper
Animals	All birds and flying things, esp. eagles and Hawks	Dragons, lions, running horses	Dolphins, all fish and water mammals, sea snakes, sea birds	Stags, Cattle, Bison, Snakes
Plants	Frankincense, myrrh, pansy, violet; Aspen	Garlic, hibiscus, nettle, peppers, poppies; Almond tree in flower	Ferns, lotus, mosses, rushes, seaweeds, water lilies; Willow	Comfrey, Ivy, all grains and grasses; Oak
Goddesses	Aradia, Arianrhod, Nuit, Cordea	Brigit, Hestia, Pele, Vesta	Aphrodite, Isis, Mari	Ceres, Demeter, Gaea, Persephone, Rhiannon
Gods	Mercury, Thoth, Shu, Enlil, Khephera	Agni, Hephaestus, Horus, Vulcan	Dylan, Llyr, Manannan, Osiris, Neptune, Poseidon	Adonis, Arawn, Cernunnos, Dionysus, Pan
Rules	The mind, all mental, intuitive and psychic work; all windy places; breath, smell	Energy, life, will, healing and purification; heat, flame, the Sun, volcanoes; sight	Emotions, feelings, love, sorrow, the unconscious mind; all oceans, rivers, springs, tides and rain; fertility	The body, growth, creativity, birth, death, silence, material gain; caves, groves, fields, standing stones; touch

We also call the Quarters Watchtowers, and the spirits of the Quarters the Guardians of the Watchtowers. We call them into every circle to help us, guard us, guide us, and protect us.