When it comes to witchcraft and paganism one of the cyclical conversations that I tend to run into are ones regarding correspondences. This extends from UPG of different animals, colors, songs, plants, etc. that one may associate with a deity or spirit that they work with. The other is things that correspond to specific ritual items, tools or times. The main example that I will give is colors.
When it comes to color correspondences, it will get accepted that green is associated or corresponds with Wealth, pink corresponds with love, etc. Now on the whole; different people may have different experiences with working with color magic, but on a very basic structure, each color will have a general correspondence. And these correspondences have been pretty common over a long period of time.
Now, today, I have seen a lot more people discuss coming up with your own correspondences. Which led me to decide to write this post. Honestly, I am so excited about this as a conversation because as an example, I have never associated the color green with wealth. Not to say that I don’t think it works, just that in my own personal practice it has never clicked as something that makes sense with wealth.
In my own practice, gold makes a lot more sense as a wealth color, not yellow, gold. this is both attributed to the fact that gold is a material that has high value, but beyond that when you look further back in history, things that were considered a sign of wealth could’ve been fertile crops. A very common crop would’ve been grains and grains stocks, often appear gold at maturity.
The point I’m trying to reach is that I would love to see more personalized correspondence lists.
What does that color mean to you, that may not be shared with others? What animals do you associate with a spirit or God that may not make sense historically or folkloric-ly.