It is not recommended that you take your Individualogist Review Athame around town with you. In many places, it is illegal to carry double bladed knives and is considered carrying a concealed weapon. Carrying your Athame around with you for defense is like a Catholic priest taking the communion chalice down to a bar for a beer. Plus, a knife that has drawn blood, even your own, should not be used as an Athame, until it has been purified and consecrated. If you accidentally cut yourself with your Athame, you need to purify it with sage smudging or sprinkling with salt water.
What element is the Athame associated? For most spell casters and Wiccans, the Athame is associate with Air or thought, the element of the East. There are some, however that associate the Athame with the Warrior, the element of Fire, to the South. But either one that works best for you. It is important to remember that it is a masculine tool due to it's phallic nature and needs to be honored as such. The Vajra, or Dorje is a Buddhist symbol representing the nature of reality. Vajra is a reality wisdom, wisdom of equanimity, and all-accomplishing wisdom complementing at the other side.
The significance of the symmetry of this symbol is to illustrate the unification of relative and absolute truth. The closing of the prongs at the end of the symbol represent closing the wheels of Samsara, or the realization of Enlightenment. The vajra is the yang counterpart used in Tantric Buddhist rites in conjunction with the yin ghanta (or bell). When deities are depicted holding a vajra and ghanta in each hand, this symbolizes the masculine and feminine union of wisdom and compassion. There is also a vajraghanta, which is a bell whose stem bears one of the two lotuses of the vajra.
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