Your elemental balance from the sky at your birth and a short questionnaire on the four temperaments — taken one statement at a time, with the keys 1 to 4 if you like — poured as you answer into four glass vessels of flame, water, air and earth, and drawn on a four-axis chart and inside Aristotle's square of the qualities. Save a reading to compare over the seasons, work with one element for a week with a thing to do each day, write your soul mirror of virtues and faults after Franz Bardon, and see the element of the hour and the season on a dial. The four elements in full: qualities, humours, quarters, tools, elementals, archangels and Tattvas. A tab sets the four elements beside the Hindu five, the Chinese five phases and the Buddhist four, with an interactive wheel of the phases. Plato's five solids from the Timaeus turn in the light and can be dragged round, with his arithmetic of triangles: one water breaks into one fire and two airs, while earth only ever becomes earth. Drag a point through Galen's square of the qualities to pass through his nine temperaments — the well-tempered mean, the four where one quality rules, and the four that took the humours' names — and turn the day's dial by its hand. The tattva tides as the Golden Dawn taught them, on a dial of the two-hour round from sunrise where you are — Akasha first, each for twenty-four minutes with the five again within it — stepped tide by tide, with the tattva meditation a tap away; and the correspondences as a quiz asked both ways, the tool, the quarter, the archangel, the humour and the rest, until each is known.
mixer10 lessons explain the ideas behind this tool.
The old physicians read a person through the four humours, each tied to an element. Answer honestly: how you usually are, not how you would like to be. Your answers stay in this browser, and the vessels fill as you go.
1 OF 12
I act first and think later.
0 of 12 answered.
THE BALANCE OF THE ELEMENTS
Answer a few statements and your balance appears here. Add your birth date in your settings to add the sky at your birth.
The square of the qualities, hot above and cold below, dry to the left and wet to the right. Drag the point and see which temperament it falls in, and how much of each element is in the mix there.
ONE OF GALEN'S NINE
The well-temperedεὔκρατος
Hot and cold, wet and dry in balance: Galen's ideal, the measure the other eight are departures from.
In De temperamentis Galen counted nine mixtures: one in balance, four in which a single quality is over the rest, and four in which a pair is — the four that later took the names of the humours. Drag across the thirds of the square to pass through them.
Add your birth date (and time and place, for your rising sign) to see the elements of the sky you were born under.
Answer all twelve statements to see your temperament.
A traditional model, not a psychological test: use it as a mirror.
A few things to do with this tool, from a first try to a habit. Each one you tick counts as practice for the day, towards your streak and milestones.
Kept in this browser. Notes you send to the journal are kept there as well.