Correspondances are like the Magickal Ingredients that we use for calling forth energy and affecting the desired change or outcome. Below here you'll find lots of tables of Correspondances, listing the various concepts / needs that you may have, and the Oils, Herbs, Timings, Minerals, Stones, Woods, etc that have been found (through lots of trial and error over many years by many people) to work well. This is by no means a full list, nor is it meant to be, but does give you a starting place to begin from in your own search for what works for yourself!
Where did they come from in the first place?
As with anything in life, from past learning's. Some of them come from Medicinal herbal uses, if a certain plant is known to have healing properties when used in a certain way, then it is also possible that the same plant may well be able to lend positive energy to Magickal workings designed to help heal in that area. Imagine you are in your kitchen cooking a casserole. You will first of all have a think about what you want to go into it, and in deciding this, you will think about what will taste good together. You’re not likely to mix potatoes and biscuits. You’ll choose flavourings that will complement the whole dish. Of course, we don’t have to do things in a certain way, but thousands of years of trial and error have produced extensive knowledge of things that go well together, and those that don’t.
The same is true of rituals and magick. We know which things complement each other, and which we should not really work with. Your spells and magickal workings may well work if you don’t correspond things together, but they’ll work a whole lot quicker and more smoothly if you do. Correspondences can be anything: colours, numbers, planets, days of the week, oils, herbs, deities, stones, etc. Whatever it is doesn't really matter all that much, as long as it works for you!
In another of my Books it has different things listed for some of the Oils and Herbs that you have used, why?
That's fine! Things mean different things to people! What colour, scent or herb that I may associate with one concept may have very different meaning to another person! As with everything in the Craft, it's your own Path, you have to decide what works for you, what means what to yourself, and go with that! There are no right or wrong answers, just many different paths that all lead to the same place.
How do I find my own personal Correspondance lists?
Make a list of things you may feel you may need spells for in the future. They could be any concept that you feel may improve your life now, or possibly be needed in the future. Examples may include love, passion, money, career, health. Think about these concepts that you are going to need, and what things stick out in your own mind when you think of them, for instance, you may associate the smell of Pine with childhood memories of Yule, and remember being happy over the holiday. This could then form the basis of a personal correspondance for happiness, the scent of Pines! Using the charts in your books, and on our website, list three correspondences (3 is a Magickal number, and it is rare to need more than three correspondances for any spell!) for each of the concepts that you have listed. (If you can’t see something you have listed, look for the nearest thing. For example, if you have put down “promotion�?and can’t see it, use the correspondences for “career�?or
“ambition�?.
You can also perform the same process to find your own personal correspondances for the 8 Sabbats of the Year, taking the associations you have of each of the seasons and using them. One way to do this is to make a pie chart, divided into 8. Assign each segment to one of the Sabbats, and using your own associations, find out the correspondences to each - colours, stones, herbs, seasonal offerings, meanings, incenses, oils. Make it as presentable as possible so that you can keep it and add to it as you perform each Sabbat ritual. Finally, do the same for the four points - North, South, East and West. Copy these charts into your personal Book Of Shadows, and you have the basis of your own personal Correspondances.
Doing the above exercise will make the Correspondances much more alive and personal to you, and not just some long list of abstract concepts from a dusty boring book that you only use when you absolutely have to. |
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