Note: This is not a guide or anything like that. You're free to come up with symbolism and your own interpretations of what's below and I've probably gone against it a few times myself. This is just how I interpret mechanics n' shit about abstractions.Elemental Abstractions:
In general: Connection to the world, creativity, focus on the outside, being outrospective, desire to build/shape, change.
Fire: Passion, rage, raw and destructive emotion.
Water: Calmness/Peace, easily influenced, having multiple states.
Ice: Sadness, death, fridigity.
Earth/Metal/Crystals: Confidence, pride, inner-strength, leader.
Sand: Time, patience, abrasiveness, flexibility.
Air: Mobility/Flexibility, spirituality, logic, destructiveness.
Soil/Dirt/Dust: Progress/productivity, old patterns, misery.
Lightning/Electricity/Storm: Fear/worries, energetic, wild.
Flowers/Plants: Love/intimacy, patience, compassion, new beginnings, desire to see things grow.
Ash: Loss, death, penance.
Glass: Fragility, sight.
Darkness: Being an edgelord, nothing/empitness, loss.
Light: Happiness, hope, desiring notice/sharing information.
Paper: Worthlessness, having something that needs to be done,
Ink/Paint: Creativity, intellect.
Wood: Wisdom, having built up something.
Ocean: Chaos, unchanging, calmness/peace.
Sound: Creativity, happiness/love, connection, desired to be understood/listened to.
Stars/Cosmic: Dreams, change, ambition.
Plastic: Moldable, fakeness, insincerity.
Fabric/Clothes: Individuality, value, taking opinions in high regard.
Transmutation: Desire to change things, dissatisfaction with how things about.
Mental Abstractions
In General: Introspectiveness, knowledge/desire to understand/learn, open-mindedness, awareness.
Telekinesis: Control, intelligence, outwardness, mastering self.
Telepathy: Invasiveness/lack of boundaries, desire to communicate, wanting information/secrets.
Inventor/Gadgeteer Desire to find a solution to a problem, having a singular goal that cannot be solved with the present tools.
Intelligence/Minds: Lack of knowledge, perceived worthlessness, presented with problems that cannot be physical solve.
Dreams: Imaginative, wishes, interpretiveness.
Memory: Stress/past grievances, desire to forget/inform, desire to change things, looking to the past, external struggle.
Emotion Compassion, understanding people (or lack thereof), closer connection to people, internal struggle.
Mind Control: Desire to control, feeling out of control, social isolation/exile.
Illusions: Deception (on both sides), belief/thought being proven wrong, desire for something that cannot be gained.
Other Abstractions
Animal: Noticeable lack of connection to people, outcast, connection to nature/love of nature. (This was going to be its own section but I was like nope fuck that lol)
Summoning/Minion Creation: Desire for companionship, social isolation/exile.
Transformation/Shape-Shifting: Issues involving identity, self-hatred/wanting to be different.
Teleportation: Feeling trap/stuck, desire to escape, needing something.
Speed: Impatience, desire to get to goal instantly, has problem approaching, a problem that can be ran from, down to earth.
Flight: Needing to reach goals/expectations, freedom, idealism.
Strength: Being faced with situations that can't be mentally solved, violence/rage, perceived lack of strength/desire to grow stronger, authority.
Healing/Repairing: Desire to help people, compassion/kindness, other people's mental scars/past trauma, seeing beauty in something, restoring something else.
Regeneration: Desire to fix self, fixing own mental/physical wounds, a goal that they need to see through, self-restoration.
Time: Past/Future mistakes, pressure of time, having limited time, lack of management
Shields: Protection/desire to protect, danger/damage, caring, imminent threat to self.
Creation/Building: The need for something, wanting to build up something new, creativity/self-expression, having problems.
Close-Range: Immediate up in your face issue/question, close and personal problems/struggles, problems/solutions being in reach, single or few problems/threats.
Long-Range: Looming/upcoming problems, threats approaching/attacking from a distance, multiple threats/problems, things being out of reach.
Enchanting/Imbuing: Inadquency, current tools not being sufficient.
Beam: Focusing on one thing/task.
Enhanced Senses: Desiring awareness or understanding of environmental/task.
Stealth: Hiding, secretiveness, unwanted attention, isolation.
Death/Necromancery: Loss of family/friend, mourning, going to dark corners, also being an edgelord.
Extra-Normal Related: Knowledge of the supernatural, problem/goal/question related to the extra-normal, desire to interact with the extra-normal.