#correspondencies

Except now I have to work out the magical properties of onion granules.

Apple - can mean love, knowledge, wisdom, joy, death, and/or luxury

Anchor – hope, steadfastness, salvation, stability, and/or tranquility

Arrow - a highly phallic image, evoking notions of piercing, penetrating masculinity, becoming the predominant symbol of the holy Father and of fathers in general

Bell - joy and freedom

Bones - the indestructible life, yet also may represent mortality and the transitory

Bridge – communication and union

Book – knowledge and wisdom

Candle - light in the darkness of life especially individual life, illumination; it is the symbol of holy illumination of the spirit of truth

Castle - enclosure, of the walled and defended city; often, the castle holds “some treasure

Circle - represents the notions of totality, wholeness, original perfection, the Self, the infinite, eternity, timelessness, all cyclic movement

Door – transition and metamorphosis

Earth - commonly seen as feminine, the great mother; nourishment, fertility, infinite creativity, and/or longevity

Egg – new life, life-energy

Eyes - clairvoyance, omniscience, and/or a gateway into the soul

Feather - absolute lightness, flight, the element of wind and air

Fire - consumes, warms, and illuminates, but can also bring pain and death

Flower - universal symbols of young life, beauty, lust and the realm of the erotic

Garden – an earthly paradise, soul, innocence and happiness

Gate - entryway into an unknown place, or a place of great significance; it is a threshold, and may connect the living and the dead

Halo - emphasizes wisdom and life force emanating from the head, and it usually tied with the notion of the supernatural

Hand - in general it is strength, power and protection. However, it can just as easily mean generosity, hospitality and stability

Heart - the locus of physical and spiritual being, compassion and understanding, life-giving and complex, love

House - a sacred place and it is an image of the universe. It parallels the sheltering aspect of the Great Mother, and it is the center of civilization

Ivy - eternity and life, immortality

Key - powers of opening and closing, and denotes liberation, knowledge, mystery, and initiation

Ladder (Stairs) – the connection between heaven and earth

Lightning - traditional symbol of sudden illumination and the destruction of ignorance

Mask - hiding emotion and personality

Mirror - reflection of the soul; it does not lie, it is absolute truth

Moon – the rhythm of time, the cycles of the moon symbolize immortality and eternity

Mountain - divine inspiration and it is the focus of pilgrimages of transcendence and spiritual elevation

Necklace - dignity and office, but is also a binding symbol; it is the threading together, or connection

Night - ignorance, the unconscious, and latent potential, sleep, dreams, sexual pleasure, and death

Ocean - the beginning of life on Earth, and symbolizes formlessness, the unfathomable, and chaos, it can also be seen as a symbol of stability

Pearl - perfection and incorruptibility; it is a symbol of long life and fertility

Pillar - the bridge between heaven and earth, the vertical axis which both unites and divides these two realms, it also represents stability, and a broken pillar represents death and mortality

Queen - the great feminine principle

Rain - may either serve as life-giving or life-destroying, it is revitalizing, fertilizing, and heavenly, and often marks acts of purification

Rainbow - heavenly glory, of celestial wonder, the rainbow often symbolizes transfiguration, and behaves as a bridge between earth and Paradise

River - life itself, a rite of passage that has just been completed

Rock - the ultimate embodiment of permanence, stability, and reliability

Star – the presence of divinity

Sun – the absolute cosmic power, the universal father

Thorn - sin, sorrow and hardship

Train - social life, destiny

Tree - the feminine, nourishing, sheltering image of the Great Mother, evocative of eternity

Umbrella - the canopy of the heavens, shelter, and protection

Unicorn – healing powers, purity and strength

Valley - fertility and life

Veil - the pre-enlightened state, hidden knowledge, secrecy, illusion, and ignorance

Water – life, birth, fertility and refreshment

Web – an intricate network of space and time, the great cosmic plan

Wheel – similar to the wheel with the added element of movement

Whirlpool (Spiral) – the source of life

YingYang – universal complimentary opposites, dualities

Zero - the absence of all, without quantity or quality, the perfect form. The zero is the ultimate mystery