Common Correspondences

(December 2, 2025) This group of correspondences provides a simple framework encompassing most emotions. This is why they are often used to call the corners when creating a sacred space for rituals.

Earth (north)

1. Confidence
2. Stability, Grounding, Practicality
3. Home, Comfort

Air (east) (ancient languages used the same word for air and spirit)

1.  Insight, Awareness
2.  Empathy
3.  Motion, Spirits (winds of change) 

Fire (south)

1. Passion, Energy, Motivation
2. Heat, Primal Feelings
3. Transformation

Water (west)

1. Cleansing 
2. Life Flow, Focus (moving waters, blood, sap, rivers)
3. Life Birth and Death, Reflection (still waters, womb, ponds)

Significantly, one of the oldest Buddhist Sutras, the Salistamba Sutra (verse 26) also mentions the classical powers. The Salistramba Sutra started coming to together starting around 250 CE and reached it final form around 400 CE. Its purpose was the systematize the growing number of teachings into a more coherent whole. It mentions these powers:

1. Earth (prthivi)
2. Water (ap)
3. Heat/Fire (tejas)
4. Wind/Air (vayu)

It also mentions space-factor/hollowness (akasa) and consciousness-factor (vijnana) which is associated with names, forms, and the 6 senses. These are powers which are not the self or soul. Together these are called the dhatus.

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(December 2, 2025) We humans have generally been emotionally conditioned in regards to colors by our culture. Here is a list of possibilities with each meaning related to others in a way which correlates with their underlying color mix. But each person must come up with their own list based upon their own feelings:​ 

1. White - cleansing, a blank slate

2. Black - banishing, a void in something

3. Grey - neutrality

4. Gold - sun

5. Silver - moon

6.  Pink - love

On the color chart:​

1. Red - passion, life, fire

2. Blue - calmness, peace, water, sky

3. Yellow - happiness

4. Purple - psychic power (passionate calmness), the color of divination when looking through your eyelids.

5. Orange - enthusiasm (happy passion)

6. Green - growth (water happiness)

7. Violet - (psychic peace)

8. Aquamarine - (peaceful growth)

9. Magenta - (passion healing)

10. Vermillion - (passion enthusiasm)

11. Amber - (happy enthusiasm)

12. Chartreuse - (happy growth)

(December 2, 2025) One example of the power of mind over matter showing both its strengths and limitations is the placebo effect. It works based upon expectations (faith) affecting the stress response chemicals in the body. Whatever you believe gives that belief power over you, even if that belief has no basis in physics.

The word “placebo” means “I shall please” and it derives from the Latin verb “ placere ” meaning “to please.” Due to the effectiveness of placebos all new medical drugs are tested against placebos as a test of material effectiveness. Only if a new drug is statistically better than the placebo effect is it considered to be materially “effective.”

If the pre-frontal cortex of the brain is impaired as it often is in Parkinson's disease then the placebo effect is also impaired (Benedetti and all 2011). This part of the brain is responsible for setting expectations.

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(December 2, 2025) Numbers have had meanings since ancient times. The meanings listed below are the ones which appear in history but your emotional responses to them might be different:​

1. Number One : "Wholeness, Unity"

2. Number Two: "Polarity" - from the opposite ends of things

3. Number Three : "Connectedness" - from the linkage of opposites. The number three has the connective middle. This is thus the number of days to transition between states in ancient legal codes. This is why tradition had to claim that Jesus took three days to change from a mortal life to a divine life. As a 3-pointed triangle is represents a door or gateway.

4. Number Four: "Earth" - from the four cardinal directions, the "ends of the earth," The four winds, etc.

5. Number Five: "Humanity" - from the five appendages of humans (2 arms, 2 legs, 1 head). As a five pointed star it represents humanity, when put into the bounded yet infinite circle it represents the divine-human connection as the Pentacle.

6. Number Six: Both realms of Nature or the "Totality" - from the complete filling of flat space by a hexagon and the filling of 3-D  space by a six sided cube. Six chambers are found in vegetables like tomatoes and peppers. Quartz crystals and snow flakes have six sides. The cardinal directions of 3-D space are six. As two triangles a six pointed star is the Gateway Star which represents the union of mother earth and father sky.

7. Number Seven: "Divine" - from the number of planetary spheres or heavens in ancient times. (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn). They were deified and given a day of the week in order of their perceived distance from earth. We still have Sun-day, Moon-day (Monday) and Saturn-day (Saturday). Also the Pleiades star cluster which was known as the seven sisters in ancient times. It was visible above the horizon between Samhain and Imbolc so it defined the earthly winter season and harvest times for the ancients. (Sparavigna) (Antonello)

8. Number Eight: "Luck" - from the balance inherent in the Divine - This meaning comes from its shape as two circles which individually represent bounded infinity. Bounded infinity is a divine principle. Divine balance produces luck because fortune can shift easily either way.

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12. Number Twelve: "Completeness" - from the number of lunar cycles (months) in a year. So Israel had to have 12 tribes and Jesus had to have 12 disciples.

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