The Air Element in Green Witchcraft: Meaning, Correspondences, Rituals, and Wind Magic

The easiest way to notice Air is to watch what it touches.

Lavender bends. A spiderweb trembles between two stems. Maple seeds turn slow circles toward the ground. Rosemary reaches you by scent before you reach it by hand. Somewhere overhead, a hawk holds itself almost motionless on a current you cannot see.

Air is invisible, but it leaves evidence everywhere.

That makes the Air Element especially fascinating in Green Witchcraft. Air is traditionally associated with breath, thought, communication, inspiration, movement, sound, scent, intuition, and the unseen. At the same time, it is not merely an idea on a correspondence chart. Wind is moving through the garden right now, carrying pollen, drying wet leaves, scattering seeds, shifting clouds, stirring fragrance, and giving wings something to ride.

Some Green Witches experience Air as an elemental presence with its own spiritual intelligence. Others work with Air through symbolism, ritual, observation, or the qualities it represents. Many practices comfortably hold both. The wind can be weather and messenger, physical atmosphere and spiritual mystery.

Working with Air can be as simple as opening a window before journaling or as ceremonial as calling the element into a ritual circle. What matters most is learning to notice it, both in your spiritual life and in the living landscape around you.

What Does the Air Element Mean in Green Witchcraft?

Air is often described as the element of the mind, but that is only the beginning.

Air is the breath that gives a thought enough shape to become a word. It belongs to questions, conversation, storytelling, learning, birdsong, music, scent, weather, imagination, and the unexpected idea that arrives while you are watering tomatoes and were thinking about something else entirely.

Within Green Witch and Wiccan practice, Air may be associated with:

• Breath and awareness
• Thought and mental clarity
• Communication and truth
• Writing, language, and spoken spells
• Learning and curiosity
• Ideas and creative inspiration
• Wind, weather, and clouds
• Birdsong, bells, music, and sound
• Scent, smoke, and fragrance
• Movement and change
• Divination and intuitive perception
• Messages, spirits, and the unseen

Air contains an interesting contradiction. We associate it with clarity, yet wind itself can be wonderfully unruly. A breeze can cool a gardener in June, spread milkweed seed across a field, carry the smell of approaching rain, or knock over the empty pot you meant to put away three days ago.

Air is not only serenity. It is motion.

What in your life needs room to move, room to speak, or simply room to breathe?

Traditional Air Element Correspondences

The elemental correspondences familiar to many witches developed through several layers of Western philosophy, alchemy, ceremonial magic, occult practice, Wicca, and modern Paganism.

Because those traditions developed differently, there has never been one correspondence chart followed by everyone. East is a very common direction for Air, for example, but not every magical tradition places it there. Colors, tools, plants, and seasonal associations also vary.

That variation is not a problem. It is part of the history.

If you are curious about the crossed triangle and other visual correspondences, the elemental symbols are explored more fully in the guide to Green Witch symbols and their meanings.

For a Green Witch, traditional correspondences become especially interesting when they meet the place where you actually live.

A book may tell you that Air belongs to spring. Your garden may tell you that October is when the wind truly becomes impossible to ignore.

Both can belong in your practice.

The Air Element Is Already Alive in the Garden

Air is one of the easiest elements to romanticize because we cannot see it.

The garden keeps it honest.

Leaves exchange gases with the atmosphere through tiny openings called stomata. Wind influences evaporation and how quickly plants and soil lose moisture. It carries pollen, distributes seed, shifts temperatures, dries leaves after rain, moves fragrance, and alters the small climate around a plant.

Some plants make their relationship with Air particularly visible.

Dandelion seeds lift on tiny parachutes. Milkweed sends silky seeds traveling beyond the parent plant. Maple samaras spiral downward like small wooden propellers. Cottonwood fluff drifts through late spring air. Grasses release pollen directly into moving currents.

Aromatic plants reveal Air another way.

Brush against mint and the scent immediately leaves the leaf. Rosemary warms in the sun and suddenly the whole corner of the garden smells different. Lavender in bloom can announce itself on the breeze before the purple flowers come into view.

Then there are the inhabitants of Air: bees, butterflies, moths, dragonflies, birds, bats, and countless insects moving through the space above our gardens.

Air is not empty.

It is habitat.

If you are building an outdoor practice around the living landscape, you can weave Air naturally into a Green Witch garden designed around plants, wildlife, and elemental awareness.

Try This: Make a Five-Minute Wind Map

How to Connect With the Air Element in Everyday Life

You do not need a shelf of magical supplies to begin working with Air.

You already have the essential tool.

You are breathing.

Air practice can begin through ordinary attention:

• Open a window and notice how the room changes.
• Step outside at dawn and listen before looking at your phone.
• Speak an intention aloud instead of leaving it only in your thoughts.
• Write something you have struggled to put into words.
• Sit beside aromatic herbs and wait for the breeze to carry their fragrance.
• Learn one local bird call.
• Watch clouds change shape and direction.
• Listen to grasses, leaves, rain, or chimes moving in the wind.
• Take a walk and notice where the air feels different around buildings, trees, water, and open ground.

Air may be the least complicated element to invite into daily Green Witchcraft because it asks for very little beyond attention.

Breath as Air Magic

Your breath is where the outer atmosphere becomes personal.

Air moves into the body and back into the world throughout the day without ceremony. Giving that exchange a few moments of attention can turn something automatic into something sacred.

Some Green Witches use breath to begin spellwork, center before divination, accompany prayer, prepare for meditation, or carry an intention into spoken words.

Try this simple three-breath practice:

1. First breath: Notice the physical sensation of breathing.
2. Second breath: Listen to the sounds around you.
3. Third breath: Choose one word to carry into the next part of your day.

Your word might be listen, clarity, courage, truth, curiosity, or begin.

Then continue breathing normally.

There is no need for dramatic breath holding or rapid breathing. If deliberate breathing makes you uncomfortable or dizzy, simply return to your natural rhythm. Air magic does not require you to force the body.

Herbs, Crystals, and Tools for Air Magic

Correspondence lists are useful, but Green Witchcraft becomes richer when we occasionally ask why a particular plant or object feels connected with an element.

With Air plants, look for fragrance, delicate movement, airborne seed, associations with communication or clarity, and relationships with winged creatures.

Plants and Herbs Associated With Air

Lavender is frequently connected with Air through fragrance, clarity, peace, dreams, and the way its scent moves through a garden or room. If lavender is central to your practice, its folklore and correspondences are explored more deeply in lavender's spiritual meaning and magical uses.

Mint has a bright, unmistakable fragrance that seems to leap from the leaves when they are touched. It can be used symbolically for alertness, communication, refreshment, and movement. In the actual garden, mint also possesses a rather impressive understanding of expansion, which is why containers are often your friend.

Rosemary works beautifully with Air through scent and memory. A warm rosemary plant can perfume the space around it without ever being harvested. For written intentions or study work, simply sitting beside the living plant can be enough.

Lemongrass brings tall moving leaves and a bright citrus fragrance. Modern magical practice often associates it with cleansing, refreshing a space, and clearing mental stagnation.

Then there are plants whose relationship with Air is not merely symbolic.

Dandelions, milkweed, thistles, cottonwoods, maples, and many grasses use moving air to carry seeds or pollen away from the parent plant.

A milkweed seed drifting across an autumn garden needs very little embellishment to become Air magic.

Crystals Commonly Associated With Air

Crystal correspondences vary considerably, so use them as a flexible symbolic system rather than a requirement.

• Fluorite: often associated with organization, study, concentration, and mental clarity
• Blue lace agate: commonly connected with thoughtful communication and gentle expression
• Citrine: often used for confidence, creativity, expression, and bright mental energy
• Clear quartz: a flexible choice for focus, intention, and clarity

If none of those stones feels meaningful to you, skip them.

Wind does not check the altar inventory before arriving.

Air Altar Tools and Symbols

An Air altar can be wonderfully light and uncluttered.

You might include:

• A bell or wind chime
• A handwritten poem, prayer, spell, or intention
• Lavender, rosemary, mint, or another aromatic plant
• A yellow, white, or pale blue candle
• A small fan
• A photograph or drawing of a bird
• An ethically and legally obtained feather
• A personally meaningful Air crystal
• The Air elemental symbol
• An empty bowl representing openness and space

An open window can also be the entire altar.

For a broader setup using all five elements, see how to build a Green Witch altar with natural elemental symbols.

Air Magic for Clarity, Creativity, and Communication

Air magic often works best with verbs.

Ask. Listen. Learn. Name. Write. Speak. Question. Change.

When thoughts feel tangled, Air practice can help create enough space to discover which thought actually deserves attention. When creativity feels stale, it can move perspective. When words have been sitting unspoken for too long, it can help prepare the voice.

A Simple Practice for Mental Clutter

Take one sheet of paper and write down everything currently competing for your attention.

Do not organize it.

When the page is full, read it once and circle the one thing that genuinely needs your attention next.

Take the paper outside or sit beside an open window for a few minutes.

Feel the moving air while you look only at the circled item.

The ritual is not asking you to solve everything. It is giving one thought enough room to become visible.

Air Practice for Creative Inspiration

Take your journal outside and write ten ordinary observations.

The leaf has a torn edge.

The clouds are moving west.

A bee keeps returning to the same flower.

The rosemary smells stronger where the sun hits it.

The gate needs oil.

Nothing has to mean anything yet.

After ten observations, keep writing.

This is a lovely Green Witch way to approach inspiration because intuition begins in relationship with the actual world instead of floating entirely inside the imagination.

A Morning Air Ritual for Clarity

Morning fits naturally with Air in traditions that associate the element with the East, dawn, beginnings, and a waking mind.

You will need only a small piece of paper and somewhere you can feel moving air. A porch, garden, balcony, doorstep, or open window will work.

1. Meet the morning first. Notice the quality of the air. Is it cool, damp, still, gusty, warm, scented with rain, carrying birdsong, or moving leaves?
2. Choose one word. Write something you want to embody today: listen, truth, patience, clarity, courage, or a word of your own.
3. Hold the paper loosely. Feel the air against your hands and take three comfortable breaths.
4. Speak:
   

   Air around me, move through what is tangled.
   Carry what is true.
   Help me listen with care,
   speak with clarity,
   and recognize the way forward.

5. Keep your word. Place the paper in a pocket, journal, or somewhere you will see it again.

Return to the word that evening.

Did you practice it?

That small act of returning turns an intention into a relationship rather than a wish made once and forgotten.

A Green Witch Air Spell for Honest Communication

Air is traditionally connected with speech, language, listening, and truth, making it a natural element to call upon before an important conversation.

This spell focuses on speaking your part clearly while leaving another person's will and response entirely their own.

You Will Need

• A piece of paper
• A pen
• A bell, wind chime, or open window
• Optional lavender, mint, or rosemary

The Spell

1. Write the most important thing you need to communicate in one sentence.
2. Underneath it, write one thing you need to remember to listen for.
3. Place your herb beside the page if you are using one.
4. Ring the bell once, touch the wind chime, or simply listen to the moving air around you.
5. Say:
   

   By breath and wind, let truth move clear.
   Give me courage to speak and patience to hear.
   Let my words carry neither force nor disguise.
   May honesty travel where understanding lies.

6. Fold the paper and keep it until the conversation has taken place.

Afterward, read your sentence again.

Sometimes Air magic changes the conversation. Sometimes it changes the way we enter it.

Wind Divination, Signs, and the Invisible Side of Air

Air has always seemed suited to divination because so much of it arrives without being visible.

You feel a gust before you understand where it came from. A bird call reaches you from somewhere beyond the hedge. Clouds change while your attention is elsewhere. A sudden scent crosses a path and is gone again.

For Green Witches who work with signs or spirit communication, these moments can carry meaning.

A sudden wind during prayer may feel like an answer. A repeated bird encounter may become part of a personal symbolic language. The direction of the wind, an unusual cloud formation, or the sound of chimes at a particular moment may be incorporated into divination.

You do not have to prove the experience before allowing it to matter.

It can also help to know the ordinary life of the place around you. Learning local weather, migration, nesting behavior, and seasonal patterns does not drain enchantment from signs. It gives them context.

A robin can be a robin and still arrive at a moment that feels meaningful.

The two ideas do not have to fight.

Wind Divination and Personal Air Symbolism

Divination involving atmospheric conditions is sometimes called aeromancy, while cloud divination may be called nephelomancy. Historical methods and modern magical interpretations vary, and there is no single universal dictionary for what every gust or cloud must mean.

One of the most useful approaches is to develop a wind journal.

Record:

• Date and season
• Weather and temperature
• Wind direction, if you know it
• Cloud conditions
• Birds, insects, or plants you noticed
• Your question or ritual
• What stood out to you
• Your first interpretation
• Anything you understood differently later

After a season or two, you may discover patterns that belong specifically to your practice and your place.

Perhaps a certain wind almost always precedes rain. Perhaps your best writing happens when cold fronts arrive. Perhaps the silver undersides of leaves become one of your personal signs that weather is turning.

This kind of observation also pairs beautifully with plant-centered spirit communication and intuitive divination.

Air Spirits and Sylphs

In Western occult and magical traditions, elemental spirits associated with Air are often called sylphs.

Some practitioners understand sylphs as literal elemental beings or spiritual intelligences. Others encounter them through meditation, imagery, ritual, or archetypal symbolism. Green Witchcraft is broad enough to contain different understandings.

If you choose to work with Air spirits, begin as you might begin any relationship with the living or unseen world: with attention.

Listen before asking.

Learn the place.

Offer gratitude in a way that leaves no harmful materials behind.

Allow silence to have a place in the conversation too.

Named wind deities from particular religions and cultures deserve more care than simply adding them to an elemental correspondence list. If a particular deity calls to your practice, learn the mythology, culture, and devotional traditions surrounding that being on their own terms.

Air Magic Through the Seasons

Spring is traditionally associated with Air in many modern Wiccan systems, but Air does not disappear when spring ends.

Its character changes.

Spring: Air Wakes the Garden

Spring makes the connection easy to feel.

Birdsong multiplies before many gardens are fully green. Migratory birds return. Pollen begins moving. Tender new leaves respond to the smallest breeze, and weather can change personality several times before lunch.

Spring Air practices might include:

• Opening windows and refreshing ritual spaces
• Beginning a new journal
• Learning local bird calls
• Watching changing clouds
• Writing intentions
• Beginning a wind or weather journal
• Noticing which plants rely upon wind for pollination

If you enjoy combining elemental work with lunar beginnings, a full practice using all five elements belongs naturally in the Five Elements new moon ritual guide.

Summer: Fragrance, Wings, and Storm Air

Summer Air can feel almost crowded with life.

Lavender releases fragrance in the heat. Bees travel between flowers. Dragonflies patrol the garden. Moths emerge after sunset. Thunderheads build high enough to turn an ordinary afternoon sky theatrical.

Try sitting outside after the heat begins to break and noticing how many different forms of movement occur above the soil.

A summer Air ritual may be nothing more than twilight, a fragrant herb nearby, and the first breeze of the evening.

Autumn: Seeds Ride the Wind

Autumn reveals Air through departure.

Milkweed pods open. Leaves loosen. Migrating birds cross overhead. Dry grasses become louder. Weather fronts arrive carrying a different temperature from the day before.

This naturally lends itself to release work, but look closely at the physical process before reaching for the metaphor.

The plant does not always scatter seed because something has gone wrong.

Sometimes dispersal is how life continues.

Winter: Hearing Air Differently

Winter changes the sound of wind.

Without summer foliage, air moves through branches differently. Dry stems scrape together. Snow can soften a landscape until a gust becomes suddenly noticeable. Cold air finds every forgotten gap around a door.

Winter Air works beautifully with journaling, reading, prayer, quiet divination, planning the coming garden, or simply listening to the weather from somewhere warm.

The garden may look still.

The atmosphere rarely is.

Let Your Own Climate Change the Correspondences

Traditional systems frequently connect Air with spring, but your strongest experience of the element may arrive in another season.

Perhaps you live where autumn fronts dominate. Perhaps summer monsoons define your relationship with wind and sky. Perhaps you know coastal breezes, mountain winds, prairie gusts, desert dust, or long humid stretches when the air barely seems to move.

A correspondence inherited from tradition can sit comfortably beside one learned from your own landscape.

The chart gives you vocabulary.

The land gives it an accent.

When Air Needs the Other Elements

Elemental balance can become a surprisingly practical way to examine everyday life.

Too much symbolic Air may feel like endless thought with nowhere to land.

Ideas multiply. Plans become more plans. Tabs reproduce mysteriously across the browser. Three notebooks are involved. Nothing has actually been planted.

That is when another element can change the conversation.

• Air and Earth: Air imagines; Earth gives the idea roots. If you have been planning without acting, the grounding qualities of the Earth Element can bring thought back into body, soil, and practical action.
• Air and Water: Air names what Water feels. This pairing can be useful when emotion exists before language. Explore the intuitive and emotional qualities of the Water Element when feelings need room beside analysis.
• Air and Fire: Air feeds inspiration; Fire acts upon it. Ideas become much more interesting once courage enters the room. The Fire Element explores action and transformation more deeply.
• Air and Spirit: Air is often associated with thought, communication, breath, and perception, while Spirit reaches toward mystery, sacred presence, deity, ancestors, consciousness, or the thread connecting the elements. You can explore that distinction through the fifth element of Spirit.

The Five Elements are far more interesting as relationships than as five separate lists.

Air, Breath, and Wind in Other Spiritual Traditions

Green Witches are certainly not the only people who have noticed that breath and wind make powerful spiritual images.

Across different religions and contemplative traditions, breath, voice, wind, and the unseen have become ways of thinking about spirit, prayer, awareness, revelation, and presence. The traditions themselves are very different, but the recurring imagery is fascinating.

Christianity: Breath, Wind, and Spirit

Christian scripture contains connections among wind, breath, and Spirit, including the Greek word pneuma, which can carry meanings related to breath, wind, and spirit depending on context.

For Christians exploring nature-centered practice, those images can offer a meaningful bridge without suggesting that Christianity and Wicca share the same elemental system.

If that intersection is part of your path, it is explored much more carefully in the discussion of Christianity and Green Witchcraft.

Islam: Wind, Revelation, and Signs in Nature

Wind also carries spiritual significance in Islam, although Islam does not teach the Pagan Air Element or an elemental system like the one used in modern witchcraft.

The Qur'an repeatedly points toward winds as part of the natural world through which divine signs may be recognized. In Qur'an 30:46, the winds are described as bringing good news of rain, carrying mercy, and helping ships move across the water.

Voice and sacred language are important as well. The Qur'an is recited aloud, dhikr centers on remembrance of God through words and phrases, and Islamic tradition identifies the angel Jibril, or Gabriel, with the transmission of revelation to Muhammad.

For a Green Witch reading across traditions, the meaningful comparison is not to turn Islamic teachings into another version of the Air Element. It is to notice how wind, spoken words, revelation, and the unseen can all become part of the human language for encountering what lies beyond ordinary sight.

Buddhism: Breath and Awareness

Breath awareness also holds an important place in several Buddhist contemplative traditions. Practices such as mindfulness of breathing bring attention to something wonderfully ordinary: air entering the body, air leaving it, and awareness returning again and again to the present moment.

This is not the same practice as working magically with the Air Element, yet there is an interesting point of resonance. Both can begin by noticing something invisible that is already happening.

These similarities do not make the traditions interchangeable. They reveal something simpler and perhaps more interesting: people across cultures have repeatedly looked toward breath, voice, wind, and the invisible atmosphere when trying to understand life, consciousness, prayer, spirit, and presence.

Ethical and Safe Ways to Work With Air

Air may be invisible, but our practices around it still have consequences.

A Green Witch relationship with Air should leave the living landscape at least as well as we found it.

Feathers and Bird Remains

Feathers are beautiful Air symbols, but finding one does not automatically mean it is legal to keep.

In the United States, many native migratory birds and their feathers, parts, nests, and remains are protected under federal law. Regulations have specific exceptions and authorizations, and state rules may add further restrictions.

If you find a wild feather and cannot confidently identify its legal status, photograph it and leave it where it is. The current U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service migratory bird guidance is a better authority than an old witchcraft correspondence list.

A carved wooden feather, drawing, photograph, fallen leaf, bell, or empty bowl can represent Air just as beautifully.

Smoke Is Optional

Incense has a long relationship with ritual and makes Air visible for a few moments as smoke twists upward.

Still, it is only one way to work with the element.

If smoke bothers you, affects someone in your household, or is inappropriate around pets or during poor outdoor conditions, try:

• A bell
• A wind chime
• Living aromatic herbs
• A spoken prayer
• Singing or humming
• A hand fan
• An open window when outdoor air quality is good
• Written words
• Natural wind

There is no spiritual penalty for choosing clean air over smoke.

Respect Real Weather

Air also carries wildfire smoke, dust, allergens, chemical drift, dangerous heat, and severe weather.

If the air outside is unhealthy, work indoors. If branches are falling, admire Air through the window. If lightning is nearby, the spirits will understand why you have chosen the kitchen table instead of the tallest tree in the yard.

Respect for an element includes respect for what it can physically do.

Do Not Send Ritual Litter Into the Wind

Avoid releasing paper, glitter, ribbon, herbs, fabric, candle remains, or other ritual materials into the breeze.

The idea of “letting the wind carry it away” sounds romantic until somebody finds your biodegradable-looking offering tangled around a shrub six weeks later.

Speak the words instead.

Let the wind carry the part that weighs nothing.

This kind of restraint is an important part of a more sustainable Green Witch practice.

Air Element Journaling Prompts

Writing belongs naturally to Air because it gives visible shape to something that began as thought.

Choose one question rather than rushing through the whole list.

1. What idea keeps returning because I have not given it enough attention?
2. What am I rehearsing silently instead of saying aloud?
3. Where would listening help me more than explaining?
4. Which thought needs Earth beneath it before it can become real?
5. What did the wind physically change around me today?
6. Which sounds make me feel most present in the place where I live?
7. What experience have I understood as a sign, and why did it feel meaningful?
8. Where am I searching for certainty when curiosity might teach me more?
9. What word would I like to practice this week?
10. What in my life needs more room to breathe?

Frequently Asked Questions About the Air Element in Green Witchcraft

What does the Air Element represent in Green Witchcraft?

Air commonly represents breath, thought, communication, learning, curiosity, movement, inspiration, sound, scent, clarity, and the unseen. Some Green Witches also associate Air with divination, spirit communication, intuition, messages, and creative inspiration.

What direction is associated with Air?

East is the most common Air direction in many modern Wiccan and Western magical traditions. It is often connected with sunrise, morning, beginnings, and awakening. Other traditions may use different elemental directions.

What color and symbol represent Air?

Yellow is one of the most common colors used for Air, with white and pale blue also appearing in modern practice. The classical elemental symbol widely used for Air is an upward-pointing triangle crossed by a horizontal line.

What season is associated with Air?

Spring is traditionally associated with Air in many modern Wiccan systems because of new growth, changing weather, birdsong, movement, and beginnings. A place-based Green Witch may also develop strong Air associations with another season based on local climate and weather.

What herbs are associated with the Air Element?

Lavender, mint, rosemary, and lemongrass are commonly used in modern Air practice. Wind-dispersed plants such as dandelions, milkweed, grasses, and maples can also offer meaningful Air symbolism because moving air is part of their actual reproductive life.

Do I need incense to work with Air?

No. Breath, wind, bells, spoken words, music, writing, aromatic living plants, bird song, clouds, wind chimes, and an open window can all become part of Air practice. Incense is one option rather than a requirement.

Can wind be used for divination?

Yes. Some practitioners interpret wind direction, changes in breeze, clouds, sounds, birds, or other atmospheric patterns through divination. You can follow a traditional method, develop personal correspondences through a wind journal, or combine both approaches.

Is Air the same as Spirit?

Usually not within a five-element Green Witch or Wiccan framework. Air is commonly associated with breath, communication, thought, movement, and perception. Spirit generally represents sacred connection, mystery, consciousness, deity, ancestors, soul, or the unifying presence among the other elements.

Can I practice Air magic if I am not Wiccan?

Yes. Not every Green Witch is Wiccan, and elemental practice appears in many forms of contemporary witchcraft and nature spirituality. You may approach Air through magical belief, ritual, symbolism, meditation, nature observation, or a combination that fits your own path.

Let Air Be More Than a Correspondence

The next time the wind rises, give it a few minutes before reaching for the correspondence chart.

Watch what happens.

See which leaves turn their pale undersides toward the sky. Notice whether the rosemary sends fragrance across the path. Listen for the branch that begins to creak, the chime answering from the porch, the sudden quiet before rain, or the wings passing overhead.

Then bring your spiritual practice into the moment.

Ask the question.

Speak the spell.

Offer the prayer.

Listen for whatever you understand as an answer.

Air does not have to choose between the physical and the magical. It can carry pollen and prayer, birdsong and divination, weather and wonder.

That is part of its beauty.

You cannot hold the wind in your hand.

But you can watch the whole garden move when it passes through.