The element for MELPOMENE (The AUSTERA, The TRAGEDY) is the FIRE. Reacting quickly to the stimulus of life, triggers a process of renewal in all of us. It symbolizes the detachment of the umbilical cord from our Mother: the Earth. Melpomene is also a Menade, in her Memory she has the emotion of beginning the life of Man. It is the tremor that causes a great emotion, but at the same time she has such an Energy that establishes the possibility of a future rebirth. Melpomene carries the beginning of Knowledge, a sense of generative and destructive power blows together, like the rising of the Sun announced by Aurora. It must be loved and listened with feeling, she feel the need of each of us as we are of her.