Water Water was one of many archai proposed by the Pre-socratics, most of whom tried to reduce all things to a single substance. However, Empedocles of Acragas (c. 495-c. 435 BC) selected four archai for his four roots: air, fire, water and earth. Empedocles roots became the four classical elements of Greek philosophy. Plato (427-347 BC) took over the four elements of Empedocles. In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with water is the icosahedron which is formed from twenty equilateral triangles. This makes water the element with the greatest number of sides, which Plato regarded as appropriate because water flows out of one's hand when picked up, as if it is made of tiny little balls.
• Cardinal direction: West • Season: Autumn • Time of life: Maturity • Time of day: Twilight • Regent Planet: Neptune • Colors: Ocean blue, sea green, dusky violet, gray and black • Feminine energy • Other: emotion, compassion, divination, intuition, healing, dreams, imagination, psychical abilities
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
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