Ironwing Tarot: Four Element Reading

FIRE: Inspiration, creativity, intuition, timing.
XI - Strength: The shaman's ribs become burning bone flutes that a tutelary spirit replaces with iron horns. Hair grows hooks that capture soul fragments that are restored as quartz crystals. A helping spirit in the form of a tiger bellows blows new breath and life into her heart. She reunites spirit and body as both are transformed and healed.

WATER: Feelings, emotions, attachments, subconscious.
XX - The Furnace (Judgement): Bright as molten iron, she emerges from the spiral smelter, the alchemist's athanor and crucible of change, the place of testing and refining, where all that is unnecessary is burned away and only pure new metal remains. The snake-haired White Goddess, renewing herself as she sheds outgrown skins, oversees the transformation.

AIR: Thought, intellect, conflict, communication.
Apprentice of Blades: Earth of Air. She holds a winter orchid (Aplectrum hyemale) and an ancient Greenland eskimo knife, cold-hammered from a flake of meteorite iron. Orchid flowers decorate her hair, and seeds blow when she plays the xun, a Chinese ocarina. Seeking intellectual challenge, she studies form and pattern in nature and applies it to practical design.

EARTH: Material world, physical body, work, skill or craft.
Eight of Bells: Traditional West African dance bells on an ankle bracelet forged with podlike rattles. The bells are no use alone, and each is made with the consistent skill of long-term study and repetition.