[Opinion] Personal correspondances

[OberonFromTheHills]

I have been practicing magick for some years now and my opinion about correspondances have changed....

I used to look for lists to compose my magick work but i found it very counterproductive.

Right now, i work with just one question in mind : "which elements reminds me of the goal?"

Let's take an example : i want to protect my home. Instead of going to Sandra Kynes's book, i will close my eyes and think "what does a secured home feel like TO ME?"

I have a scent of marsmallow, fireplace, berenstein bears, being relaxed, wood, red curtains, yellow flowers....

I may choose to place a bowl with a red knot, some ashes from my fireplace. I may take a visual from a real bear (or a Berenstein Bear one, it's similar in my head, but the Berenstein ones are more humanized) i will place the yellow flowers around the candle. I will place lavender oil on my candle cause it relax me. While performing the ritual, i may eat marsmallow.

Then i will create an energy ball, placing all the feelings invoked in my head, thinking of satefy etc.

Once the ritual is over. I might place everything in a jar...

So what do all those elements are good for? Well just helping me getting in the safe home zone.

If i felt a direct threat, maybe i will have envision my home around thorns. I would smell cayenne pepper, see swords, dragons.... So i would have choose to place all those elements in my magick.

Would i throw out my correspondance book? Well not really, in those situation....

1) i try to connect to a specific spirit. The correspondances would help me to vibe with it.

2) i want to perform magick that is linked to a specific group (the Golden Dawn) or a tradition. In that case, using correspondances that belongs to a group are needy.

What do you think?

 

[Anziel_Merkaba]

Sounds like you're tapping into your intuition to do things based on your personal path instead of just following what someone else wrote in a book. Going by the book isn't always best, and in many cases is rigid and ultimately harmful to your path, but keeping the book for inspiration and reference isn't a bad thing either.

 

[OberonFromTheHills]

Sounds like you're tapping into your intuition to do things based on your personal path instead of just following what someone else wrote in a book. Going by the book isn't always best, and in many cases is rigid and ultimately harmful to your path, but keeping the book for inspiration and reference isn't a bad thing either.

I think most of magick books teach you a system but most of them fail to explain what happens behind the curtain.

I don't believe you tap into an egregore when you want to use one pink/green candle cause millions of other people do the same to represent Venus.

If you need a venusian work but yellow feels the best color for that (cause it triggers in you the happiness of love) how can a damn green candle be more powerful if it just vibe with nature for you?