Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard

134 Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard

“other” automatically gets listed as Evil. The world

really isn’t a stark division of Good and Evil; there

are infinite shades of grey in everything. This is an

essential piece of knowledge for a Wizard: It allows

you to view others with compassion and to under-

stand that even those who claim to stand for some-

thing righteous will inevitably carry within them a bit

of what they claim to be against. If everyone under-

stood this, it would be impossible for zealots and

demagogues ever to come to power. One important

reason for developing the following categorizations

of multiple correspondences is to enable us to see

beyond dualism to diversity.

Keeping in mind that the Multiverse really can

count higher than two, and that people are not really

creatures of absolutes, but complex beings embody-

ing infinite facets and qualities, the following tables

of correspondence illustrate some of the traditional

Dyads, Dualities, and Opposites.

Practice creating your own tables of magickal

correspondences. Begin with two. Choose a concept

that is an important aspect of your life (family, art,

music, yourself...), and try to see a way that concept

could be divided into two opposite or complimentary

things. (For example, the concept of “Parents” in-

cludes “Mom” and “Dad.”) Try associating those con-

cepts with different colors (“Mom likes purple and

Dad likes red...”). Ask, “If each of them were an ani-

mal, what kind of animal would it be?” And you can

go on that way. As you study these various tables here,

feel free to add to them, or even make up your own.

Triads and Trinities

Just as any concept of Unity may be divided into

two opposing Dualities, two opposites may be recon-

ciled into a new synthesis (“put together”). The Greek

Triads and Trinities

SEASON Spring Summer-Autumn Winter

AGRICULTURAL Planting Harvest Fallow

PLANT PART Blossom Fruit Seed

TIME OF DAY Morning Afternoon Evening-Night

Childhood- Maturity- Seniority-

Adolescence Parenthood Old Age

WIZARD’S JOURNEY Apprentice Journeyman Adept

PASSAGES (male) Puberty Fatherhood Sagehood

PASSAGES (female) Menarche Parturition Menopause

TRIPLE GOD Youth Father / Man Sage

TRIPLE GODDESS Maiden Mother / Woman Crone

MOON PHASE New-Waxing Full Waning-Dark

QUALITY Innocent Creative Wise

ATTRIBUTE Inspiring Loving Frightening

FUNCTION Creation Preservation Destruction

STATE Fresh Ripe Decaying

QUANTITY Filling Full Empty

COLOR White Red or Green Black

EGYPTIAN GODS Osiris (father) Isis (mother) Horus (child)

CHRISTIAN Yahveh (father) Shekinah (holy spirit) Kristos (son)

HOLY FUNCTION Creation Resurrection Redemption

HINDU GODS Brahma (creator) Vishnu (preserver) Shiva (destroyer)

NORSE WORLDS Asgard (Heavens) Midgard (Earth) Hel (Underworld)

CHINESE REALMS T’ien (Heaven) Ti (Earth) Jen (human)

NORSE NORNS Urd (past) Verdandi (present) Skuld (future)

GREEK FATES Clotho (spinner) Lachesis (measurer) Atropos (cutter)

TAOIST TREASURES C’hi (vitality) Shen (spirit) Ching (essence)

ALCHEMICAL Salt Sulfur Mercury

PRINCIPLE Body Mind Spirit

KINGDOMS of LIFE Mineral Vegetable Animal

GURDJIEFF Affirming Denying Reconciling

Tables of Magickal Correspondences 2 and 3

Dyads/Dualities

Chinese Taoism

YIN YANG

Wiccan

GODDESS GOD

PHASE OF LIFE

Earth Heaven

Moon Sun

Feminine Masculine

Receptive Creative

Negative Positive

Passive Active

Cold Hot

Darkness Light

Mother Father

Habondia Herne

Cerridwen Cernunnos

Isis Osiris

Artemis Apollo

Psyche Eros

Persephoné Hadés

Moon Sun

Chalice Blade

Crescent Horns

Spiral Staff

Cat Stag

Dog Wolf

Horse Bull

Rabbit Snake

Bear Boar

Owl Eagle

Spider Fish

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