#magical correspondences
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
astra-ravana · 3 months ago
Text
Planetary Days And Hours
Magick is at its best when performed during certain days and hours of the day. These time periods are associated with the seven celestial bodies in our solar system that we can observe with the naked eye. The associations are as follows:
Tumblr media
A magical day is measured starting at sunrise and ending at sunset. Each sunrise and sunset period is divided into twelve equal parts, resulting in a (roughly) 24-hour day. Depending on your location relative to the equator, the planetary hours you calculate in your area may be longer or shorter than conventional hours.
The first hour of the day is always that of the planet the day represents. The hours then repeat infinitely in the following order: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon.
Tumblr media Tumblr media
* Power hours; ** Witching hours
The first, eighth, fifteen and twenty second hours are called power hours. These are the hours in which the seven-planet cycle repeats. Notice that the cycle resets after the twenty fourth hour with the power hour of the subsequent day.
The two hours after the final power hour and the twenty third and twenty fourth hours are called the witching hours. (Conventional hours place the witching hours between midnight and 3am, or 3am to 6am) These hours are favored by black magicians for casting baneful magick.
Use these tables to reference ideal days and hours when scheduling your spells. The finer you tune the time of the ritual, the more potent your magick will be.
Tumblr media
313 notes · View notes
creature-wizard · 3 months ago
Text
Magical Correspondences 101
So I figured I should put all of my stuff on correspondences in one place for convenience's sake, since having them spread in a bunch of short posts isn't really helpful if I need to link them. Anyway, for those of you getting into magical correspondences, here's what I've got!
So, what are correspondences?
A lot of modern witchcraft operates on the belief that things like stones, plants, colors, and so on have certain metaphysical properties. Why do they have these properties? There are multiple explanations. Sometimes the properties are supposed to be innate. Sometimes they supposedly exist because the object in question is a symbol for something else. You'll find that many spells combine these two ideas, such as using an herb because of its inherent properties it's believed to have, then also using a flower because it's a symbol of a deity.
(Will it hurt anything to mix these concepts? Personally, I don't think so. Spiritual beliefs and metaphysical models are often messy, and occasionally contradict each other. I've never really seen it hurt anything.)
If you search around, you can easily find charts that describe various properties associated with various things. People sometimes assume that these properties were handed down to us from authorities who were so in tune with magic or the divine that they were basically infallible, and newbie witches just have no hope of figuring things out for themselves.
Fortunately, that's not really true!
Some correspondences are informed by nature. Others are social constructs.
You might see correspondence lists say that gold is associated with wealth, that apples are associated with love, and pink is associated with femininity. These are all social constructs that have nothing to do with the natural qualities of these things.
Other correspondences are informed by nature, however. Green is associated with life because healthy leaves are typically green. Hot peppers are associated with pain and torment because capsaicin produces a burning sensation.
(This isn't to say that social construct correspondences are all inherently bad, or even lesser. But it's good to be mindful of the differences, because it makes it easier to figure out what you can change and mess around with, and how!)
Even when correspondences are informed by nature, they can still be subjective.
The world is full of vastly different ecosystems, climates, and geological structures. Different regions have their own plants and animals. And even within your own region, you'll find that nature lends to many different correspondences for the same thing. Hot peppers might be orange or red, but so are many sweet fruits. Water can nurture life, or it can drown it.
Some people who acknowledge this will say that it's all about intent, but I personally believe it's a bit more about context. Just look at at the infamous children's hospital with the red path on the floor, and how the it creates an unnerving atmosphere despite whatever "positive connotations" red can have. I think if you're trying to figure out what to put in your spell, thinking contextually can help you make appropriate decisions.
In any case, I do think it's important to lean toward correspondences that have meaning to you. What some ancient guy who lived and died on the other side of the planet thought doesn't override your lived reality and your cultural experiences.
If you want to really learn correspondences, observe the world around you!
Correspondence lists can be good references, but they don't really help you develop a proper understanding. To do this, pay attention to plants, stones, colors, shapes, etc. and ask yourself:
Where do they turn up naturally?
How do they behave? What do they do?
Where and how do people use them, and what are they associated with in these contexts?
Where are things often grouped with other things? What is the significance of these groupings?
(If you keep a Book of Shadows or other magical journal, I recommend writing down your findings!)
So yeah, that's the basics on magical correspondences. They can look a little intimidating at first, but they're actually a lot more simple and straightforward than you might realize.
Happy witchin'!
84 notes · View notes
amortaldivinity · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
⋆。 ゚☁︎。 ⋆。 ゚☾ ゚。 ⋆ A few of my PERSONAL correspondences when doing magic and weekly tasks according to the planetary associations with the days of the week ⋆。 ゚☁︎。 ⋆。 ゚☾ ゚。 ⋆
32 notes · View notes
crimsonsongbird · 5 months ago
Text
HALSIN SILVERBOUGH
Tumblr media
Correspondences: Respect, Nature, Nurture, Healing, Awareness, Awakening, Transformation, Honesty, Acceptance, Passion, Love, Longing, Hope, Bears, Home, Knowledge, Travel, Growth, Understanding, Empathy, Resilience, Admiration, Durability, Movement, Motivation, Leadership, Compassion, Honor, Protection, Confidence, Druidry, Determination, Fertility, & Resistance 
Herbs/Plants: Tobacco, Peppermint, Cardamom, Ginseng, Valerian, & Amaranth
Crystals: Emerald, Black Tourmaline, Amazonite, Clear Quartz, Tiger's Eye, & Amethyst
Elements: Earth & Air
Celestial Body/Planet: Earth
Numbers: 2, 3, & 8
Scents: Musk, Dirt, & Wood
Candles: Green, Brown, & Orange
Magic Types: Earth/Nature, Healing, Protection, Knowledge, Leadership, Hex Breaking, Curse Lifting, Self-love, Druidry, Hope, Fighting, Overcoming, Transformation, Growth, Determination, Shielding, Nurturing, Energy, Acceptance, Awakening, Movement, Motivation, Abundance, Attraction, Fertility, & Resilience
Tumblr media
42 notes · View notes
caribwitch · 5 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
36 notes · View notes
criticalthinkingwitches · 17 days ago
Text
Tumblr media
It's that time again!! Time for the next CTWC Witches' Brew! Come join us for this FREE VIRTUAL event!
Saturday, January 11th 10 AM PST/ 1 PM EST/ 6 PM GMT/ 5 AM AEST (1/12)
Lee Ignire hosts with special guests Bree NicGarran @breelandwalker , Kath Wallace, and Lozzie Stardust @lozziestardust to discuss Herbal Correspondence! Register for free on our website Critwitch.com or click the link in our bio!
Register here:
[Image ID: Maroon background with a curve of pink flowers in the top right and bottom left corners with a white frame of the CTWC logo: a question mark with a cauldron, featuring a sprig of rosemary under it in the top left and bottom right corner. Text is white and reads: "It’s time for a Witches' BREW! Saturday Jan 11th 6 PM GMT/ 1 PM EST /10 AM PST Featuring: Kath Wallace, Bree NicGarran, Lee Ignire, Lozzie Stardust! Register on our website!" Stamp on the bottom in white reads: Critical Thinking Witch Collective. Conjuring community since 2021. www.Critwitches.com]
14 notes · View notes
booksandwitchery · 1 year ago
Text
Personal Correspondences
Tumblr media
After studying witchcraft for about 18 months now, I am finally getting around to recording my list of personal correspondences. If you ever feel like you're getting witch imposter syndrome, remember that witchcraft, paganism, and occultism in general are so multifaceted and multidisciplinary. You can be heavily immersed in your path for a long time and still not have the basics down. I'm not necessarily saying that personal correspondences are basic, but I sure feel silly that I am just now taking time to establish these for myself.
I've always had a hard time with Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences and similar literature because of the pure subjectivity of everything in life. For example, I am not partial to the color purple because of bad memories from my childhood. Many other people will feel that the color purple is calming, welcoming, or friendly. If humans are all so unique and diverse (and we are), I can't agree that any list of magical correspondences is universal or should be trusted at the sacrifice of personal experience and/or intuition. I must say that this of course excludes medical or evidence-based properties of plants, herbs, chemicals, and so on.
This is just the unfinished flower section, but I've covered a lot of ground (crystals, herbs and spices, plants, trees, metals, scents, animals, etc.) and I'm excited to keep chiseling away at this master list.
I'm interested to know if any of you have made a list of personal correspondences, or if you're cool with the books just spelling them out for you. Let me know!
77 notes · View notes
elminx · 2 years ago
Text
Somebody just shared a post of mine with the tag "personal correspondences are always valid"...
and just...
it's more complicated than that.
You generally need to know what you are doing to make a personal correspondence for magical purposes. And you need to test it magically, too.
You can't just say "Lavender makes people angry" and then put it in a spell and it will make somebody else angry.
Most good correspondences have a REASON that they bring that type of energy to the spell. That reason may not work for you for whatever reason, and then, you wouldn't want to use it in magic for that purpose. And that's cool but that's different than just willy-nilly making up your own correspondences for like funs.
Let's get a bit nuanced here and use the very debated one: caffeine.
Some people have weird nervous systems where caffeine doesn't wake them up, so using caffeine for its intended purpose wouldn't be the best for them. Cool. But to then go "Caffeine makes me sleepy so I'll use it for a sleep spell on somebody else..."
Do you see the problem there? If caffeine makes you sleepy, you might be able to use it in a sleep spell for yourself (I'm still skeptical there but if you've done this successfully, please lmk - I'm legit interested) but that doesn't give caffeine the correspondence of "sleep" in a generalized sense. To further complicate things, not all correspondences are created equal. Like, change any color correspondences you want - in my opinion. The Eurocentric view of color does not equal what color means to everybody. But that's different than a plant that has certain inherent properties which will carry through into the magic. (And we could get very technical about the inherent properties of color - like black absorbing light and white reflecting light, but I digress) To summarize, correspondence charts are shit and I encourage you to seek out and learn to understand how things work for you in magic. But that's also sort of advanced practice and it takes a long time or trial and error to get right. If you're just deciding something without that, you are probably playing make-believe.
170 notes · View notes
faerytalemagick · 11 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
Happy Freyja day 🕯️🌕🍀
Friday Magical Correspondences
Planet: Venus
Deities: Venus goddesses like Aphrodite and Freyja.
Colors: Pink and green.
Magical Intentions: Love, romance, beauty, sensuality, and artistic pursuits.
37 notes · View notes
citrinemystic · 2 months ago
Text
Want to level up your Kitchen Witchery? Figure out/decide what common sauce ingredients correspond to in your practice. You'll be able to incorporate intention into almost every meal you eat.
Ingredients to think about - tomato, (used in sooo many sauces, including ketchup and BBQ sauce) vinegar, lemon, onion, garlic, eggs, milk, and oils.
8 notes · View notes
delightingintragedy · 11 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
Sun Correspondences
From Christian Astrology by William Lilly
(It is mostly word for word. I tried to format it to fit into a nice correspondence list, but the information itself is untouched.)
Zodiac: Rules Leo. Detriment in Aquarius, Exalted in Aries, Fall in Libra.
Nature: Naturally Hot, Dry, but more temperate than Mars, is a Masculine, Diurnal Planet, Equivalent, if well dignified to a Fortune.
Profession: Kings, Princes, Emperors, & Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Barons, Lieutenants, Deputy-Lieutenants of Counties, Magistrates, Gentlemen in general, Courtiers, desirers of Honour and preferment, Justices of Peace, Majors, High-Sheriffs, High-Constables, great Huntsmen, Stewards of Noblemen's houses, the principal Magistrate of any City, Town, Castle or Country Village; yea, thought a petty Constable, where no better, or greater Officer is; Goldsmiths, Braziers, Pewterers, Coppersmiths, Minters of Money.
Sicknesses: Pimple in the Face, Palpitation or Trembling, or any Diseases of the Brain or Heart, Tympanies, Infirmities of the Eyes, Cramps, sudden swoonings, Diseases of the Mouth, and stinking Breaths, Catarrhs, rotten Fevers; principally in man he governs the Heart, the Brain and right Eye, and vital Spirit, in Women the left Eye.
Colours: Yellow, the colour of Gold, the Scarlet or clear Red, some say Purple.
Savours: A mixture of Sour and Sweet together, or the Aromatical flavour, being a little Bitter and Stiptical, but withal Confortative and a little sharp.
Herbs: Those Plants which are subject to the Sun do smell pleasantly, are of good savour, their Flowers are yellow or reddish, are in growth of Majestic form, they love open and Sunshine places, their principal Virtue is to strengthen the Heart, and comfort the Vitals, to clear the Eyesight, resist Poison, or to dissolve any Witchery, or Malignant Planetary Influences; and they are Saffron, the Laurel, the Pomecitron, the Vine, Enula Campana, Saint John's Wort, Amber, Musk, Ginger, Herbgrace, Balm, Marigold, Rosemary, Rosa solis, Cinnamon, Celandine, Eyebright, Peony, Barley, Cinquefoil, Spikenard, Lignum Aloes, Arsenic.
Trees: Ash tree, Palm, Laurel tree, the Myrrh tree, Frankincense, the Cane tree or plant, the Cedar, Heletrepion, the Orange and Lemon tree.
Beasts: The Lion, the Horse, the Ram, the Crocodile, the Bull, Goat, Nightworms or Glowworms.
Fishes: The Sea Calf or Sea Fox, the Crabfish, the Starfish.
Birds: The Eagle, the Cock, the Phoenix, Nightingale, Peacock, the Swan, the Buzzard, the fly Cantharis, the Goshawk.
Places: Houses, Courts of Princes, Palaces, Theatres, all magnificent Structures being clear and decent, Halls, Dining Rooms.
Minerals: Gold
Stones: The Hyacinth, Chrysolite, Adamant, Carbuncle, the Etites stone found in Eagle's nests, the Pantaure, if such a stone be the Ruby.
Weather: He produces weather according to the season; in the Spring gentle moistening Showers; in the Summer heat in extremity if with Mars; in Autumn mists; in Winter small Rain.
Winds: Eastern Winds
Element: Fire
Angel: Michael
Planetary Alliances: His Friends are all of the Planets except Saturn, who is his Enemy.
Week Day: Sunday
Tumblr media
Correspondence posts for the other planets: [Moon] [Mercury] [Venus] [Mars] [Jupiter] [Saturn]
Tumblr media
25 notes · View notes
astra-ravana · 3 months ago
Text
Getting Dirty
According to stone tape theory the soil, stone, and wood around us preserve an imprint of our history, a record of sorts. Soil is important, it holds the residual energy of a place and preserves it forever. Practitioners can tap into the qualities of various types of dirt to integrate those energies into their work. The different types of magickal soil are as follows:
Crossroads Dirt: Decision making, road opening, luck, success, opportunity, opens doors to other realms, offering to Hekate and other crossroads deities
Highway/Railroad Dirt: Movement, relocation, travel, speeds up any working
Cemetery/Graveyard Dirt: Healing, protection, prosperity,luck, love, baneful workings, assistance from the dead, offering to death deities
Backyard Dirt: Purification, protection, peace, workings with/for the home/family, traditionally collected from the four corners of the yard
Enemies House Dirt: Hatred, animosity, revenge, conflict, used in baneful casting
Bank Dirt: Drawing money, prosperity, good fortune, good luck, security, used in mojo bags
Hospital Dirt: Healing, health, and  recovery as well as sickness, injury, and illness. Intent is everything.
Casino Dirt: Good luck, chance, change in circumstances, chaos, loss, ruin, intent matters
Bar/Pub Dirt: Confusion, delirium, accidents, distraction, fun, chaos, seduction, short term
Schoolyard/Playground Dirt: New beginnings, joy, optimism, playfulness, protection of children
University Campus Dirt: Knowledge, memory, intellect, intelligence, wisdom, higher consciousness
Market Dirt: Business, income, networking, wealth, community, communication, commerce
Banquet Hall Dirt: Celebration, love, communication, togetherness
Forest Dirt: Nature, balance, abundance, peace, serenity, the element of Earth, offering to nature deities like Cernunnos or Pan
Courthouse Dirt: Justice, legal issues, cases resolve in your favor, binding, banishing, punishment
Prison/Jail Dirt: Imprisonment, entrapment, restraint, binding, banishing, punishment
Murder Scene Dirt: Death, destruction, devastation, used in the most potent and wicked curses and baneful workings
Tumblr media
311 notes · View notes
wickedherbgrimoire · 3 months ago
Text
✨ CHAMOMILE ✨
Chamomile has been used for sleep and nerves for centurties, but it also has the powerful ability to break curses and hexes.
Element: Water Deities: Hecate Zodiacs: Cancer Planet: Moon Crystals: Amethyst, Rose Quartz, Moon Stone Good For: Sleep, depression, healing & more! Protects Against: Anxiety
For more tips, tricks, tonics, and tintures check out the Wicked Witch's Web! 🌛🖤🌜
Source: The Wicked Witch of the Web
7 notes · View notes
amythystraine · 19 days ago
Text
A Little Kitchen Wytchery, aka the magical mickie
In this section, we’re going to dive into the quaint and delightful world of the Kitchen Witch. Her world is filled with aromatic and delicious dishes whipped up with secret ingredients, a wide variety of intentions, copious amounts of natural witchery, and perhaps a cackle or two.
3 notes · View notes
crimsonsongbird · 5 months ago
Text
ASTARION ANCUNIN
Tumblr media
Correspondences: Manipulation, Lust, Blood, Dexterity, Finesse, Loneliness, Longing, Night, Darkness, Vampires, Death, Passion, Selfishness, Desire, Confidence, Stealth, Betrayal, Fangs, Bite, Travel, Aesthetic, Fashion, Immortality, Pain, Suffering, Overcoming, Transformation, Servitude, Attraction, Dreams, Arrogance, & Ascension 
Herbs/Plants: Almond, Violet, Calendula, Apple, Hibiscus, & Bloodroot
Crystals: Bloodstone, Carnelian, Labradorite, Blue Apatite, Howlite, & Rose Quartz 
Elements: Air & Spirit
Celestial Body/Planet: Venus
Numbers: 2, 3, & 7
Scents: Brandy, Bergamot, & Metallic
Candles: Silver, Red, & Black
Magic Types: Cursing, Hexing, Cord Cutting, Return to Sender, Dexterity, Confidence, Stealth, Travel, Glamour, Overcoming, Transformation, Freedom, Death / Spirit Work, Precision, Goals, Dreams, Attraction, & Blood
Tumblr media
17 notes · View notes
cimarutamystics · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
Blessed full moon 🌝
4 notes · View notes