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title: Earth
summary: Exploring the Prime »Earth« in the Alchemical Materialism framework
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  alt: The Material, The Heavy, The Foundation
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publishDate: 2026-02-24T12:56:00.000Z
status: published
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parent: elements
tags:
  - Essences
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  - alchemical-materialism
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- **Alchemical Properties =>** Cold & Dry; descending, condensing, solidifying
- **Primary affinity =>** Prosperity
- **Associations**
  - Weight, density, solidity; the things that's *there*
  - The ground beneath; territory, boundary, the physical
  - Resistance to movement; inertia; mass
  - The body itself: flesh, bone, muscle
  - What can be held, measured, counted, divided
- **Material Character**
  - *Prosperity →* Extraction, agriculture, physical labour; working the land; masonry, road-building
  - *Warfare →* Heavy infantry, siege, fortification; holding ground; crushing weight
  - *Statecraft →* Territorial administration; »this is MY land«;
  - *Lore →* Practical craft, material science; knowing by doing and touching
  - *Rites →* Sacred ground, burial rites, fertility rituals; the body as sacred; chthonic power
- **Symbolic**
  - Rootedness
  - Stubbornness
  - Endurance
  - Possession
  - Gravity
  - The foundational
- **Failures**
  - Immoveable
  - Crushing
  - Suffocating
  - The weight that buries
- **Key Image:** the Mountain
