element

Iron

Elements · Colors & materials

A common metal that rusts. Weapons, blood, and later planetary correspondences have used it; those uses are not one doctrine.

  • Iron is associated with Death.

    Iron takes an edge. Weapons are one job of that fact; they are not Saturn’s lead and not a luck-charm.

    associated with · interpretive · culturally specific

  • Iron is associated with Blood.

    Blood tastes of iron because bodies use the metal. Later correspondences that join Mars, iron, and blood are a craft overlay on a material fact.

    associated with · interpretive · culturally specific

  • Gold is opposed to Iron.

    Gold does not rust; iron does. Later metal-lore made that contrast a moral; the chemistry is older than the sermon.

    opposed to · interpretive · culturally specific