sentences:  Fire and water are also the elements most associated with Sun and Moon, and thus the Horned God and the Goddess within Wicca.For this reason, covens that associate the athame with air (and the wand with fire) may decide to use the wand to bless the wine chalice, instead of using the athame.A union of air and water does not carry the same symbolic significance of the "conjunctio oppositorum" (union of opposites) that the union of fire and water does.