A Slight Discrepancy..., and what am I to do? Options

Greetings,

As the title would suggest, I have found discrepancies in nearly every source on magical correspondence, I have thus far checked. Most will agree about the symbols of the elements and zodiac but few will agree on the Planets- the number, angles, hour, exc. will all differ wildly between sources. This trend is especially true of herbal correspondence; I have yet to find two sources that agree on more then ten or so- many will contradict each other out right.

Yet for some reason it all still works. Regardless of which set of correspondence I use, it seems to work most of the time. The results would indicate that the correspondence does not matter, and the effort I'm exerting is what counts. Can this be true, or is there some method to the inconsistencies that allow it to function despite the errors.

Thanks,

Develope your own correspondances. These will allow you channel your energy through your environment and visa versa. The simplist method, while it does take its time, is set a series of symbols, say planets with a number of say herbs in a circle about yourself. Arrange these at random to start and contemplate to yourself if you feel the set up is right or not. If you feel that a particular herb needs to be under a different planet then switch it. Continue as such until you are sure you've found the irght correspondances. An other example is colors and elements. I could never understand why yellow is so commonly associated with air - its the the color of the sun. To me yellow logically fits with fire. So if I were to arrange a series of colors around the four signs of the elements I would put yellow with fire because it rationally make sense to me. Like wise, in the case of herbs you'd probably want to place each herb with a corresponding planet according to your understanding of them. So if you agree that Saturn is the planet of knowledge you'd probably place knowledge related herbs under that planet.

Of course if this rather time consuming, obssessive complusive process does not fit to your liking then simply use a pre-existing list of correspondances that after contemplating you feel would work for you the best. Correspondances are not about how everybody else thinks somethings should relate to others - its about what you think should.

This post has been edited by Acid09: Mar 2 2007, 05:44 PM