This is a quick-and-dirty lexicon of magical correspondences for several elements of modern witchcraft practiced by faeries. It’s wildly incomplete: meant to spark intuition, not push dogma. Each entry offers key associations to help build a gut-level familiarity with the symbols, elements, times, tools, and directions we dance with in ritual, spellcraft, and everyday wonder.
Elements / Directions
- Air: East, breath, mind, inspiration, clarity, movement, communication, new beginnings
- Fire: South, passion, energy, transformation, desire, courage, action, vitality
- Water: West, emotion, intuition, dreams, depth, healing, reflection, surrender
- Earth: North, stability, grounding, wisdom, strength, abundance, body, tradition
Axis of Being
- Up: sky, spirit, stars, divinity, aspiration, imagination, expansion, guidance
- Down: ancestors, roots, memory, shadow, lineage, underworld, wisdom, connection
- Center: here-and-now, heart, community, presence, awareness, soul, embodiment, truth, stillness, balance
Time of Day
- Dawn: awakening, hope, possibility, newness, gentle energy, liminality, fresh breath
- Mid-Day: clarity, power, focus, illumination, drive, visibility, expression
- Sunset: reflection, transition, release, beauty, peace, closing, gratitude
- Night: mystery, rest, dreams, introspection, darkness, subconscious, renewal
Colors
- Red: passion, blood, courage, vitality, anger, grounding, life-force
- Orange: creativity, warmth, joy, pleasure, movement, flirtation, sensuality
- Yellow: intellect, clarity, sunlight, optimism, learning, focus, humor
- Green: healing, nature, abundance, growth, love, balance, fertility
- Blue: calm, truth, voice, intuition, emotion, trust, communication
- Purple: magic, mystery, royalty, vision, spirit, transformation, sacredness
- Pink: softness, love, tenderness, romance, compassion, self-care, innocence
- Black: shadow, mystery, protection, endings, power, grief, potential
- White: purity, clarity, peace, illumination, truth, openness, spirit
- Grey: neutrality, liminality, ambiguity, reflection, stillness, twilight, mystery
Lunar Phases & Eclipses
- Full Moon: culmination, visibility, clarity, manifestation, energy, gratitude, peak
- Waning Moon: release, surrender, cleansing, reflection, letting go, banishment, slowing
- Dark Moon: stillness, rest, void, shadow, death, retreat, silence
- Waxing Moon: growth, intention, building, action, hope, expansion, momentum
- Solar Eclipse: hidden will, interruption, new identity, sudden shifts, internal reset, unseen power, awakening
- Lunar Eclipse: emotional upheaval, karmic reveal, hidden truths, shadow release, illumination, turning point, ancestral echo
Seasons
- Spring: rebirth, growth, tenderness, renewal, innocence, fertility, blooming
- Summer: fullness, celebration, joy, heat, expression, strength, abundance
- Fall: harvest, transition, gratitude, letting go, wisdom, reflection, decay
- Winter: rest, stillness, silence, darkness, gestation, endurance, inwardness
Witchy / Neopagan Holidays
- Samhain: ancestors, death, thinning veil, remembrance, endings, mystery, descent
- Yule: rebirth, longest night, hope, hearth, dreaming, light-return, incubation
- Imbolc: quickening, inspiration, spark, purification, healing, early stirrings, promise
- Ostara: balance, fertility, new life, awakening, curiosity, growth, equilibrium
- Beltane: passion, fire, love, union, sensuality, fertility, ecstatic celebration
- Litha: peak light, abundance, power, culmination, vitality, solar magic, glory
- Lammas: first harvest, gratitude, nourishment, sacrifice, sustenance, work, sharing
- Mabon: balance, preparation, reflection, maturity, mystery, descent, gathering
Symbols & Shapes
- Circle: wholeness, protection, unity, cycles, sacred space, eternity, infinite return
- Triangle: fire / spirit (up), water / womb (down), transformation, balance, focus, alchemy, direction
- Square: foundation, structure, grounding, material world, stability, boundaries, manifestation
- 5-pointed star (Pentagram): protection, elements in harmony, body and spirit, sacred geometry, magic, balance, will
- 6-pointed star (Hexagram / Star of David): divine union, cosmic balance, as above so below, integration, harmony, sacred duality
- 7-pointed star (Heptagram / Faery Star): mystery, otherworlds, fae magic, liminality, initiation, intuition, spiral truth
Magical Tools
- Broom (Besom): cleansing, boundary-setting, threshold magic, home protection, preparation, sacred sweeping, genderfuck tool
- Cauldron: transformation, womb of creation, rebirth, alchemy, mystery, holding space, ritual brewing
- Wand: willpower, direction, energy flow, invocation, air or fire element, intention setting, queering authority
- Knife (Athame): cutting illusion, clarity, boundary, discernment, energy channeling, sacred blade, truth-edge
- Cup (Chalice): receptivity, offering, union, womb, water element, divine feminine, sacred drinking
- Altar: sacred focus, devotional space, ritual center, intention setting, connection point, reflection of the self
- Bell: sound clearing, invocation, spirit call, transition marker, frequency shift, attention anchor
- Mirror: reflection, scrying, truth, illusion, portals, self-awareness, divination
Chakras
We honor and recognize the cultural origins of chakras: energy centers rooted in ancient Indian spiritual systems like Tantra and Yoga.
- Root (Red): safety, grounding, survival, belonging, earth connection, ancestry
- Sacral (Orange): pleasure, sensuality, emotion, creation, desire, fluidity
- Solar Plexus (Yellow): power, identity, will, self-esteem, clarity, confidence
- Heart (Green / Pink): love, connection, compassion, grief, forgiveness, empathy
- Throat (Blue): communication, truth, boundaries, voice, listening, expression
- Third Eye (Indigo): insight, vision, dreams, intuition, perception, clarity
- Crown (Violet / White): spirit, divine connection, unity, expansion, transcendence, trust
Flavor Profiles
- Spicy: intensity, heat, stimulation, desire, action, fire, wakefulness
- Savory: grounding, comfort, nourishment, depth, satisfaction, stability, richness
- Sweet: joy, love, reward, gentleness, celebration, pleasure, childlike energy
- Salty: purification, presence, preservation, protection, clarity, boundary, earthiness
- Umami: complexity, fullness, soul-depth, satisfaction, mystery, resonance, richness
Numerology
- 1: beginnings, self, creation
- 2: duality, balance, relationship
- 3: creativity, growth, communication
- 4: stability, structure, foundation
- 5: change, motion, risk
- 6: harmony, care, responsibility
- 7: mystery, introspection, spirit
- 8: power, mastery, manifestation
- 9: completion, wisdom, release
- 0: source, potential, cosmic void