For those traumatized by the blazing forestland in New Jersey and California, the appeal of flames rising is probably gone.
Fire can also be a metaphor. Fire in the belly signifies ambition and the Doors sang of stoking desire.
There is passing the torch, a tradition exemplified in Paris this summer. Fire also captures the idea in getting burned [or its alter ego, not].
Fires give heat and light. The campfire is benign and contained and well-loved. Fires can rage, giving birth to an angry modality.
Our art therapy/connection group used it as a metaphor symbolic of what moves and inspires us.
Mine kind of, you know, “wrote itself.”
All The Best 