#personal correspondences

Ruling Planet: Jupiter

Due to associating Jupiter with all things finances like I do with basil.

Intent: Money, Abundance, Attraction (Job related)

Basil is a common money attracting herb used for financial abundance, job attraction, and drawing in money.

Element: Air

It’s an aromatic herb so it’s an air element.

Color: Lime

Due to the color of the leaves.

Grapefruits

Beauty and Glamours

Comforts and Luxuries

Summer

Lemons

Energy and Youthfulness

Healing, Health, and Soothing

Joy, Happiness, and Positivity

Spring and Summer

Limes

Abundance, Prosperity, and Wealth

Adventure and Exploration

Changes and New Opportunities

Health and Healing

Summer

Oranges

Abundance and Variety

Comfort, Familiarity, and Stability

Creativity and Imagination

Cinnamon

Though cinnamon is less often used for protection, I've always associated it with such.

I burn cinnamon incense and use its smoke to cleanse myself, my altar and any new tools before a working.

I will mix ground cinnamon, cemetery dirt*, and wood ash (cedar or pine if I'm sourcing it myself) and use the powder to sprinkle along the exterior perimeter of our house.

*At the time of writing this post, my direct neighbour is an 100+ year old cemetery. Even before we lived beside it, I would hike the area and spend countless hours sitting amongst the stones. I do not collect more dirt than I need and only take from the edges of the yard, not from the graves themselves.

Cedar

Cedar has long been planted along property lines to offer a form of privacy. The scent of cedar is used as a natural bug repellent, and before the time of embalming, cedar was planted in cemeteries to try to mask the smell of the dead.

Because of these aspects, I associate cedar with protection and warding.

I primarily burn it, either as dried leaves and bark in small smoked bundles, or as wood in a small portable fire when laying my annual property wards outside.

Pine

Pine is a strong tree. Enduring harsh winds, winters, and even surviving droughts. Because of this, I visualize pine as being long lasting protection.

While I will burn pine similarly to cedar, I also forge and process pine sap to create pine resin to burn at my altar.

Iron

Iron has been viewed as a protective element in spiritual workings for ages. So it's not exactly a personalized correspondence, but it's something I do utilize for its traditional use.

For example, there are four iron church nails pressed point down into the earth at the four corners of our yard. Creating the 'corner posts' for the protective 'fence' I lay down yearly.

I carry a small piece of scrap iron in my vehicle to protect against road accidents.

And I use small iron nails in spell jars/vessels to either pin energies in, or protect against energies I want kept out.

Spruce

Like pine and other evergreens, spruce is a resilient tree. Its ability to withstand harsh winters and stay green throughout all seasons makes it a symbol for endurance and life everlasting.

Along with burning its dried needles, I will also harvest and process the sap to create resin incense.

Juniper

Whether it be through its medicinal uses as an anti inflammatory and diuretic, or its spiritual uses as a smoke cleanse and physical ward, juniper has a long history associated with protection.

I often harvest bits of bark for loose incense and berries for use in spells or charms, especially those dealing with health.

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I’m kind of...not a great person to ask for a straight up list for anything. I’m the asshole who tells you how to figure stuff out yourself...sorry.

Fighting Fear to Make Your Own Magic

This is a post with a tip and example of how to determine personal correspondences. This is especially helpful for plants and herbs that are more local or unique and not obviously “witchy”. You could use this for trees or shrubs since not everyone has access or ability to grow the classic ingredients.

How to get comfortable with new herbs and spices

Just an easy way to mindfully and simply connect to edible plants and herbs by eating smelling cooking and tasting. Helpful for broom closet witches who may be relegated to only using kitchen herbs for craft related needs and not having purely craft usage ones.

Tips on how to google in a productive/helpful manner

So when I’m researching a new plant or herb, or even crystal or incense, this is usually the format I use to search. There’s also correspondences for pine and birch in this post.

So hopefully that can help you personalize your correspondences to what you use regularly and what you may be able to use that you didn’t consider before!

Last piece of advice, print or write that stuff down. Scrap book it, write it by hand, make a google doc or something so you can reference it easier and even offline. Even a quick paragraph printed out that you write a note scrawled in the margins will give you a better grasp of it and fill up your grimiore faster than you think. Filling it with stuff you researched to use means you’ll have a good reference of what you actually have access to instead of buying a book that 80% is stuff you will never even come across.

List of my personal correspondence that I’ve compiled for metals:

🔸Gold - Eye of Ra, solar, warmth, power, the skin of the gods

🔸Silver - Eye of Horus, lunar, healing, purification, wealth, wisdom

🔸Copper - beauty, joy, romance, sweetness, friendship, kindness

🔸Bronze - war, destruction, building, transformation, workmanship

🔸Iron - invention, discovery, progress, journey

🔸Lead - measurement, counting, time, trade, commerce, money

Clear/White/Gray:

Moon + Air

Meditation + Spirituality

Scrying

Balance + Grounding

Serenity 

Blue:

Jupiter + Water

Healing + Pain relief

Purification 

Soothing

Dreams + Sleep

Green:

Earth

Healing

Balance

New habits

Success + Prosperity

Honey/Yellow/Orange:

Sun + Fire

Wisdom + Memory

Intuition 

Astral work

Happy energy + Mental healing

Protection

Creativity

Energy (source)

Brown/Root Beer:

Earth

Balance

Breaks patterns + blocks

Protects from negative energy

Communication with inner self/child

Red:

Mars

Vitality

Creativity

Growth + Rebirth

Confidence

Pink:

Venus

Connection + Empath (connection)

Healing

Loving energy + Love

Peacefulness + Grounding 

Caring for your calcite:

Avoid long exposure to sun - softer stones can become weak + brittle. I like to charge mine in the sun briefly - especially honey calcite!

Avoid water - the right mix of chemicals/Ph/etc. can cause it to dissolve.

Smoke cleansing is your safest bet, or a cleansing/charging board!

Charge using the earth, moon, charging board, or other methods!