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How to Make Your Own Correspondences

Look at what is meaningful to you. What things have been personally important to you? An example of this is your favourite colour. If your favourite colour is blue, what about the colour appeals to you? Is it because it makes you think of the sky, or water, or a feeling of peace? Did your parents paint your front door a certain colour? What colour was your favourite toy? Did someone you hate love a certain colour? What about someone you love? What do you associate with them? Anything meaningful can count if you want it to count. 

Word associations. Take a look at what I associated with blue in the first bullet point. What does the sky or water or peace mean to you? Do you think of clouds or stars first when you think of the sky? Do you think of the ocean or a river when you think of water? What kind of peace does blue make you think of? And then keep chaining. If blue = water = river, then river can mean movement, gradual change, swiftness, etc. if blue = sky = stars, then blue can be a divination colour (stars being associated with astrology). If blue = peace, and if peace = calmness when being alone, then blue can also represent self-care or vitality (because you might be an introvert who needs to recharge their social batteries every so often by being alone). If you get stuck, this site can give you associations as prompts.

Look at traditional correspondences, ask why, and assess if they’re accurate for you. What in the author’s culture would cause them to think that this would connect to this? If blue is said to be a truthful colour, you could look to the Bible to see that blue = sky = God = truth (Exodus 24:10, John 3:33). If blue is said to be a calming colour, you can look to science to see that in some studies, it has been shown that blue = lower heart rate = calm (Al-Ayash et al, 2015). Then, by understanding, word associate. If blue = God = truth, then if red is the opposite of blue, then red = opposition to God/Satan = lies. Again, the same research showed that redder colours affect the heart more, so red is also opposing to blue in that it’s less calming, more active. Do you not like the Christian god? Then blue could be a colour of lies instead of red, which takes on blue’s former truthful meaning. If blue = God ≠ truth, then blue ≠ truth if such an association makes you uncomfortable.

Combinations. If correspondences can be combined, what do they combine into? Red + blue = purple. Is purple a paradoxical colour, of lies and truth? Then perhaps purple is a colour of confusion. Perhaps purple is weaker than red or blue due them cancelling each other out. Or, purple can represent harmony or balance of opposing forces. Or continuing with my Christian example, purple could represent the Earth/material world, since between heaven and hell are people living on Earth. Then, continuing from there, purple, as it associates with kings due to the expense of purple dyes before the invention of synthetics (LiveScience), can then represent worldly power (as kings rule the material world rather than the spiritual), as opposed to a more spiritual/godly power.