u/Twostagdance

Hello folks, I have a questions I have been struggling with for a while. In both Wicca, witch craft, and lodge decedent druidry the elements usually have these corresponding colors: Air = Yellow, Fire = Red, Water = Blue, Earth = Green. Does anybody have a origin for this particular arrangement? I thought it might be the humors or golden dawn but neither of those match up exactly. I am really interested in the history, given the time period it has to have boiled out of when the original Golden Dawn blew up and their books published leading to other groups including Wicca and Druidry boiling up from the ashes.

So I have been doing some Druid practices for a while now and been working with classic elements . I can find or logic out most of the associations but… the directions: east - air, fire - south, west - water, and earth - north, I just can’t find a reference for before it shows up in the golden dawn stuff? Does anyone know where this comes from? Also I thought maybe the colors comes from the humors but it doesn’t match well, Fire and Water are duh, and earth as green is okay (honestly orange for brown is more intuitive), but why is air yellow instead of like, purple? Who decided all this? Is there a classic reference I just seem to be missing?

Any help is appreciated because I am stumped?