In this 2 part episode we discuss magical correspondences, where the come from, how to use them, why we use them, and how you can fit them into your own magical practice building.

Content Note: at approximately 1:02:15- 1:08:40 we start to discuss gender, alchemical correspondences, and the construction of homunculi, which historically involved questionable acts involving a dead cow. Listener beware.

Notes:

- Felix's tumblr: http://da-at-ass.tumblr.com/

- Cain/The Clan of Tubal Cain

- Trash witch: A witch who does magic utilizing trash or by other means of reclaiming that which has been devalued.

The PDX Witch Guild podcast folks are:

Alex upthewitchypunx.tumblr.com

Mary emonbalmgirl.tumblr.com

Emrys blue-index.tumblr.com

Felix da-at-ass.tumblr.com

Bea violetwoolgathering.tumblr.com

Esme youlooksosmall.tumblr.com

Show Notes:

- catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change

- The Golden Dawn

- O.T.O. = Ordo Templi Orientis

- sympathetic magic

- Sir James George Frazer & the Golden Bough

- Doctrine of Signatures

- curiosity cabinets

- Ray Comfort’s banana argument (video)

- god phone

- Blue: A History by Michel Pastoureau

- blue as devil's color starting in the bible as seen as a blue angel

- Codex Gigus

- Florida water

- Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes

- The Modern Herbal by Margaret Grieve (Amazon) (Online)

- Hawthorne zine (Don’t have a link yet, will post to the tumblr)

- silver leaf mugwort (Artemisia Ludoviciana)

- Witch's Whisk

- smudging vs smoke cleansing, written by someone of indigenous descent

- cultural appropriation

- recaning

1:02:15 - beginning of the abhorrent cow story

- homunculus

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