Fire

Fire is the most transforming of elements. Zoroastrian tradition keeps fire as the central sacred symbol — pure, consuming, attentive. Hindu Agni is the fire god who carries offerings from humans to gods. Jungian analysis reads fire-dreams with care: fire destroys, but it also purifies; it warms, but it can consume. A controlled fire (hearth, candle) often marks vitality in right relation; a wildfire, passion that has exceeded its container. Notice what the fire burns, and what survives.