in an effort to make my magical practice my own, I went back to absolute basics. Colour magic is one of the first things we usually learn as beginners to set the foundation for the rest of our practices.
But, as colour is extremely important in the symbolism of my religion, it felt weird using other peoples correspondences that have nothing to do with my spirits. I've started with the main 8 colours (next group will be PInk, Brown, Black,White). I drew two cards for nuance.
I encourage anyone who is feeling disconnected from their practice to try something like this: take a basic concept or tool and pull cards to determine what it means for you! Crystals and herbs I believe will be next.
Che- Willpower
Chekvem - Thought
Kvemkh - Self
Shad - Reality
Lugay - Purpose
Uqnum - Law
Nnum - Safety
Toh - Unity
Che/Chem
Two of Disks
Change, intentional willful transformation, eternal change, not good nor bad just different, making the best of the choices given/ being disappointed n what you changed into, feeling led astray, hasty choices
R The Fool
Bleeding fool, running out and being hurt over and over. Continue same choices despite seeing the same result, self destructive and hungry
Nuance: Red represents willpower. It is not good or bad it just does and the goal is the make the best of what happens. However, if you do not learn from your mistakes, you will be making the same mistakes and never satisfied.
Chekvem/Bal
The Hawkmoth
Preparing for next step despite uncertainty, change from uncertainty to hope for a future.destiny is where you end up not all is predetermined,
6 of Cups
Innocent joy, pure bliss and nostalgia, innocence does not equal youth or ignorance
Nuance: Orange represents thought. The ability to plan and hope for the future as well as learn from the past. Unwillingness to use your thoughts leads to ignorance.
Kvemkh/Euf
8 Pentacles
Self Care, finding ambition and nurturing it, taking care of yourself, your needs first, confidence
Devil with Snakes for Dicks
Comfort in your life, in your body, confidence that could turn to cruelty, elitism
Nuance: Yellow represents the self. In it's purest form it is self love and ambition, in it's dark form it is elitism and cruelty. You are only above others because you stomp them down.
Shad/Nis
Page of Curses(the cards from niseags deck pg194)
Looking for misery and finding it, noticing when good things come around aka gratitude, sadness giving more weight than joy
Joker
Wildcard and bridge between other cards
Nuance: Green represents reality and transitions. What you give your attention to will determine your perception. there is always a next step.
Lugay/Chel
The High Priestess p214
Learning cause and effect on a large scale, weird truths, self actualization, understanding large systems and your role in them, realizing you don’t want thing you chased all your life you want to be it/destroy it
Wound Man Reversed
Hurt without intention or purpose, sometimes life is just surviving what happens to you, pain without catharsis
Nuance: Cyan represents the thriving versus surviving. on one side you know your role in the world and or you finally get the answer you were looking for. Sometimes you chase something your whole life only to learn you hated it. It's up to us to embrace the truth or suffer when we hide from it.
Uqnum/N’go
Reverse Page of Curses (also niseag)
Ill omen, a curse because you will always be looking for a curse, lack of follow through, low ambition
Nuance: Azure is justice and all the good and bad that comes with it. The wrongdoers are punished and the righteous succeed, or so it's supposed to be. Justice does not equal fairness.
Nnum/Teo
Reverse Lightning in a Bottle
Leaving something when you outgrow it, things growing bigger than you can handle, lightning striking too close to home and leaping to safety
The High Priestess p214
Learning cause and effect on a large scale, weird truths, self actualization, understanding large systems and your role in them, realizing you don’t want thing you chased all your life you want to be it/destroy it
Nuance: Indigo is applying your higher knowledge to situations and knowing when to move on. Situations no longer serving you and leaving them behind. abandoning the sunk cost fallacy
Ih/Toh
3 of Pentacles
Working together, everyone brings something important to the table, no contribution too small
Reverse The Allbright
Absence of hope, a sign to step up and be the hope for others or yourself, for those who are faithful they are always there but if you lose faith or doubt they leave
Nuance: Violet is hope and acceptance. Recognition that no contribution is too small. being the hope for others and yourself. accepting blessings but scorning when they aren't happening
Symbol - Crossbow with an arrow loaded, horns beside the arrow and wings underneath the horns
Image/Description -
Tall and slender tan woman with a long face, large nose, and down turned eyes. The colour of her eyes represents what stage of her life she is in, purple being the final stage. she typically wears dark make up. her hair is gray-purple and has wispy long curls
talked to my therapist about this and wanted to talk about it here, mainly UPG
everyone's always "as above so below our worlds mimic each other" but only seem to focus on how the divine is reflected onto our realm. If we are connected, if we are mirror realms reflecting each other, then the spirits have an ecosystem too!
I think a lot of spirits that people encounter that are "tricksters" or "evil" are just... serving their ecological function. Especially when travelling in the astral.
"but I got a bad feeling so it MUST be evil!" if you're walking in the woods and look up and theirs suddenly a bear there, would you call the bear evil for being wary of you?? is a vulture on the side of the road eating a dead raccoon evil?? every spider who is 1000x more afraid of you??
same with cleansings and stuff. People are so intent on clearing ALL the energy away it ends up sterile. just like there is helpful and harmful bacteria it's the same with spirits. I believe there are types of spirits that we would classify as detritivores and that generally get the reaction that irl detritivores get : yuck ew nasty kill it!
when I want bad energy or stuck energy to go away, I feed it to a detritivore spirit to be digested and turned into something else. sometimes yes the detritivores get overwhelming and suck energy out of things I don't want to, but I just need to feed them.
like fish tanks, like your gut, like your garden soil, there needs to be microorganisms, creatures cleaning up the used energy to renew it. you don't need to spiritual sterilize your space to be safe, you need a healthy dose of spiritual probiotic!
I am now naming these spirits in my practice as khufhodvum (khoof-hodvoom) meaning "waste eater" since that's was detritivore means lol
My thorn, my sword, my tune
My petal, my needle, my lyric
A flower in bloom, a note sung perfect
these I know are you
O Narcísse!
Out of the Lion's den you came
Like Aphrodite from the sea
As the naked Goddess feels no shame
You live just as free!
O Ricky!
Out of the dungeon's keep you came
Like Venus shining at first light
As the star inspires with it's flame
Your voice ignites souls to flight!
O Auroré!
Out of love and song you came
Like hearts when lips touch
As we sing your praise and fame
You love us just as much!
My courage, my confidence, my creative
My defense, my dance, my determination
A pain felt before, now meditative
You I know are the causation