Deborah Lipp has done an excellant job of providing practical and easy to follow ideas on how to restore and maintain a sense of balance including easy to understand assessments of our balance.
This book focuses on balancing the four elements-earth, air, water and fire in our homes and our daily lives. In this regard the book is very enriching offering ideas for decorating and rituals that enhance our appreciation of our lives and our world.
This book reminded of Thomas Mores books on reestablishing a sense of enchantment in our lives.
Given our modernistic focus on being productive and being acquisitive this book is a counterbalancing force to the excesses and deficiencies in our modern world which tends to impoverish and disenchant our daily experience.

This book shows you how to create balance in your life using the four elements: air, fire, water, and earth. The author shows you how to experience and "feel" each element for yourself through guided meditations and conscious ritual. Also included in the book are a variety of cutom-made quizzes and checklists to help you determine which element/s are abundant or lacking in your life. Quizzes and checklists include What I Like About Myself and The Elements In Daily Life, where the reader assesses the elements in home, clothing, art, work, and so on.

Perhaps the neatest aspect to this book is that the author has amaassed a comprehensivehas perfume/cologne database listing the primary elements for popular fragrances. (For example, Happy fron Clinique is Water, while Tommy for men is primarily Air.)

I am not a Pagan or Wiccan (I'm a "New Ager"), so the "spells", rituals, and pagantalk were lost on me. Still, even those not of the Pagan traditions will find value in consciously learning how to promote balance in life. For example, I'm primarily Airy and knew this from both my astrological chart and from intuition. My weakest element, by far, is Earth. (This "air head" needs grounding sometimes!) So I appreciated the practical help this book affords so I can consciously add elements into my life to remind me of the need for balance.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go collect some rocks...