Your Elemental Personality

[Islamicelt]

For most of my life, I have considered myself a "Fire" personality. I would become interested in something and I would become obsessed with it, consuming it until I learned everything that I could about it. Information was like oxygen and once I felt like I learned everything there was to learn about it and the oxygen ran out, I passed on to the next topic to feed my flames. I also used to be extremely passionate about things and quick to anger. I almost sought out debates so that I could argue with people about things. Because of these traits, I considered myself full of Fire and wanted to incorporate more Water into my life to balance it out. Now, coincidentally enough, I am almost TOO much of a Water personality. Now, I stay away from debates because the heaviness in the air bothers me and doesn't excite me anymore. I still get very interested in things and want to learn everything about it, but I feel like reflecting on it and finding a way to incorporate it into the life that I already lead instead of consuming it entirely is more valuable. Sometimes I consider myself almost like a Gollom in the sense that I enjoy privacy, almost to the point of having only one or two friends, and I like to sit back and watch now instead of jumping right into the action. When action used to be where you could always find me, now it completely intimidates me and feels too intense.

Two elements that I think I lack tremendously are Earth and Air. To me, Air is very emotional and, while I am very emotional, I feel like people with too much Air seem to be ultra-sensitive and take things too personally. Because Water dominates my personality right now, and I like negativity to pretty much wash off of my shoulders immediately instead of carrying it around, I have learned to be very unemotional with things. I also lack Earth and have lacked Earth all my life. I don't think Earth and I will ever see eye-to-eye except in the sense that I am very proud and connected to my heritage. I am not remotely connected to my place-of-birth or the area in which I grew up (once I graduated from high school, I chose a college on the other side of the country from where I grew up). The funny thing is when I was a little girl, I used to watch the movie The Little Mermaid probably 3-4 times a day. I was absolutely obsessed with that movie (Fire). When I grew up, I noticed that the things that Ariel does in the movie, I pretty much copied in my own life. Ariel falls in love with a man not of her world and leaves behind her life to be with him in a life that she has always been fascinated with. This, to me, is a lack of Earth because Ariel, and also myself, are not comfortable rooting where we were raised. We want to see more. We want to leave the familiar and see the unknown around the world.

What do you guys think of yourselves? What elements do you have and what elements do you lack? Most of all, how do you define the elements? What personalities do you think THEY have?

[TreyWard]

I have always sort of felt that I am aligned with air. It is the element of the intellect, and I am always looking to read and learn as much as I can. My friends know me as the one with all the "useless information", if there truly is such a thing. Of course, air is also flighty, and I find myself very easily distracted by whatever thought crosses my mind. I am always living in my head, contemplating whatever mystery has me fascinated at the time. I feel that I lack earth and fire more than water. I have never had the "in-your-face" sort of dynamic personality that I feel fire represents, although, as it is the element of passion, I have had quite a bit to be passionate about recently, as I have learned more about my bardic path and what it means to me. Earth and I also do not see eye to eye, as you said. I am usually anything but grounded and practical, dealing with things of the mind and spirit, rather than physical things that one can see and touch. Some say that I don't live in the "here and now", but to me, what is life if it is not examined for its meaning?

I do have a very well rounded group of friends that I feel round out our elemental wheel, so to speak. My wife is very water-aligned, very caring and compassionate, even to the point of crying from the emotion that she caries. Fortunately for me, she also has enough earth within her to balance me out! My best friend and future brother-in-law (a story for another day!) is very much in line with the earth. He is the most practical person I know, thinking in terms of numbers, efficiency, and the physical world. It is even to his detriment sometimes, as he can get so wrapped up within his logical way of trying to act on something, that he never actually does anything! Finally, there is my sister-in-law, who is, to me, the epitome of fire. She is consumed with passion for music and her entire world revolves around it. Add to this her bright, energetic, and incredibly out-going personality and it seems to me a wonder sometimes that she doesn't burst into flames like the Human Torch. All in all, our group works well together.

[Sassy1979]

I am strange of sorts i tend to be to a mix of air fire and water. I am sadly lacking in the stability of earth qualities. By finishing the bardic grade i have been able to balance my quick temper with logic an air quality and the water quality of empathy, I have had problems with seasonal depression and have managed to get out more even with the bad weather i have even trained a sled dog. Losing touch with nature tends to make me out of touch with my inner self i try to get out of the city as much as a can and have brushed up on desert survival skills so i can be more comfortable in the natural surroundings vs the man made one.