Finding Your Elemental Directions

Tonight I was watching the wonderful Charming Pixie Flora on youtube and she had a video about finding your elemetal directions. This video was very interesting to me because I too feel that the elements can be located differently to everyone. You pick up a basic pagan reading book and most of them say: Earth is North, Air is East, Fire is South, and Water is West. Not until I watched her video did I know you could change it up. Since the beginning of my research I thought differently for elemental directions. Let me explain it to you, the way I look at it. Lets look at Air. I lived in South Dakota for 4 years while my husband served in the military. Almost everyday the wind would blow through the plains. Tornado warnings would go off during spring and summer. Big thunderstorms would roll in with huge gusting wall clouds. Sometimes the wind gust would be over 100 mph. Blowing snow storms during winter and covering the houses for sometimes days. To me when I think of the Element Air I think North. Now growing up on the Central Coast of California you would think I would say water but nope I dont even think water when I say west coast. First I remember the eucalyptus and oak tress. I remember riding my horses in those little forests of trees. I remember the rolling hills of grapevines, the fields and fields of fruit trees and traveling up highway 101 and 1 to Oregon and Washington. Ahhh I remember the first time driving through there with my windows down and the smell of pine trees. It smelt like Christmas. Its just so green, its earth to me. Have you ever realized when you are travel to the south it gets warmer? Every time this is the case. Hot weather like in Arizona, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico that's fire to me. Fire is warming those places up. Water now would be east coast for me. I traveled there one year with my husband to visit family. We stayed in a beach house and the first time I touched the water it was amazing. It was so warm and clear. Its what a beach should feel like to me. Not only was the water warm but the humidity out there is insane!!! There is water every where! So my elemental directions would be: Air is North, Earth is West, Fire is South, and Water is east.

What is everyone's thoughts on this topic? Do you believe by recognizing your elemental directions it would help your spell casting? And if you have different elemental directions already what are they and why?