CATALOGUE
Magical Correspondences & Cross-Reference
A cross-reference of magical relationships.
The Catalogue is the Codex's master correspondence cross-reference — eight filtered lenses onto the same body of magical relationships. Choose a planet, an element, a colour, an intent, a moon phase, a candle, an oil, or a tarot card, and the matching herbs and crystals appear in a two-column panel alongside the static reference data (day, element, direction, qualities, working notes). It is the relational tool that turns a list into a network.
Where The Vault holds the correspondence tables as a definitive index, the Catalogue is the way those tables are read in practice — by association, by intent, by what a working actually asks for. The herbs and crystals surfaced are pulled live from the same data that powers your Apothecary, so an entry is always one tap from its full Codex profile and your inventory.
The Eight Lenses
Planets
The seven classical planets — Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn — each with its ruling day, element, intent domain, and the herbs and crystals traditionally aligned with it.
Elements
Fire, Water, Earth, and Air — each with its compass direction, its season, its qualities, the tools that belong to it, and its matching herbs and crystals.
Colours
Twelve working colours, each with full correspondence text — what a colour signifies, when to choose it, what it amplifies. Used in candle work, altar dressing, sigil ink, and the choice of any visual element of a working.
Intent
Twelve working categories — Protection, Love, Abundance, Healing, Clarity, Banishing, Grounding, Psychic, Sleep, Courage, Purification, Divination. Pick the intent of your working and the matching ingredients surface together.
Moon Phases
The eight lunar phases — New, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent — each with its energy, working window, and matching botanicals.
Candles
A chromancy reference: each candle colour read for its working purpose, with day-of-the-week, planetary, and intent associations folded into the same view as the rest of the Catalogue.
Oils
Traditional oil correspondences from the Spells & Oils library — each entry with its intent, description, and tradition. Choose an oil and the same herb/crystal partner correspondences appear.
Tarot
The full seventy-eight-card Rider-Waite deck threaded into the same Catalogue. A card's element, planet, and astrological correspondences sit alongside the herbs, crystals, and intents it speaks to.
Definition
What is correspondence work?
Correspondence is the underlying grammar of much magical practice. To call a herb “venusian” is to say it carries the energy of love, beauty, pleasure, and harmony — and that it sits naturally alongside rose quartz, the planet Venus, the day Friday, the element Earth, the colour pink, and the working intent of relationship. The web of those alignments is what allows a witch to compose a working from first principles rather than copying a recipe.
The Catalogue surfaces that web as a working tool rather than a reference book. Open Sun and find its day, its element, its intents, its herbs, its crystals — together, on a single screen. Open Love and find every botanical, stone, and partner correspondence aligned with it. The relationships the tradition has long held in tables become navigable; the cross-reference becomes a working.
The Seven Planets
What does each planet rule?
The seven classical planets — the Chaldean order from which the days of the week and the planetary hours both descend. Each planet rules a day, sits in an element, and presides over a domain of working.
| Planet | Day | Element | Domain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sunday | Fire | Success, healing, joy, vitality |
| Moon | Monday | Water | Intuition, dreams, the subconscious, cycles |
| Mars | Tuesday | Fire | Courage, conflict, protection, banishing |
| Mercury | Wednesday | Air | Communication, learning, travel, divination |
| Jupiter | Thursday | Air | Abundance, growth, wisdom, luck |
| Venus | Friday | Earth | Love, beauty, pleasure, harmony, relationships |
| Saturn | Saturday | Earth | Binding, banishing, protection, boundaries, ancestors |
The Four Elements
What does each element carry?
Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. Each with its compass direction, its season, the qualities it brings to a working, and the tools that have long stood for it on a witch's altar.
| Element | Direction | Season | Qualities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire | South | Summer | Transformation, will, passion, courage, purification |
| Water | West | Autumn | Emotion, intuition, dreams, healing, the subconscious |
| Earth | North | Winter | Stability, physicality, groundedness, patience, abundance |
| Air | East | Spring | Thought, communication, clarity, travel, the intellect |
The Twelve Intents
What working categories does the Catalogue cover?
Twelve working categories that map almost any spell or ritual to a starting point. Choose the one that matches your working and the matching herbs, crystals, planets, and colours appear together.
Connections
How does the Catalogue connect to the rest of Grimoire?
The Catalogue is the connective tissue between the Codex and Practice. The Spell Builder reads against the same correspondence table when you choose an intent or a moon phase, surfacing matching ingredients into the working. The herbs and crystals it lists pull from the live Herbology data and the same Crystals codex that powers your Apothecary, so any entry is one tap from its full profile and your inventory.
Alongside The Vault — which holds the same data as static lookup tables — and the Sacred Calendar — which schedules timing against the same planetary system — the Catalogue rounds out the Codex's correspondence layer. Three lenses on the same body of relationships: a relational one, an indexed one, and a temporal one.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
What is the Catalogue in Grimoire?
The Catalogue is the Codex's master correspondence cross-reference — a single screen that lets you read magical relationships from any direction. Open Sun and find its day, its element, its intents, and the herbs and crystals that share its energy. Open Water and find its direction, its season, its qualities, and the tools and ingredients that belong to it. Open Love and see every herb, crystal, planet, and colour traditionally aligned with it. The Catalogue is the relational lens onto the symbolic language a practice runs on.
How does it differ from The Vault?
The Vault holds the master correspondence tables in their static, looked-up form — colours, numbers, days, planetary hours, elements as a definitive index. The Catalogue surfaces the same correspondence data as a cross-reference, letting you walk through it by association: choose a planet, a colour, a moon phase, an intent, and the matching herbs, crystals, and partner correspondences appear together. The Vault is the table; the Catalogue is the way the table is read.
What can I look up in the Catalogue?
Eight filtered views: Planets (the seven classical planets with their day, element, and intent rulerships), Elements (the four with their direction, season, qualities, and tools), Colours (twelve with their full correspondence text), Intent (twelve working categories from Protection to Divination), Moon (the eight lunar phases), Candles (chromancy reference for candle magic), Oils (traditional oil correspondences), and Tarot (the full seventy-eight-card deck). Each view returns matching herbs and crystals — drawn live from your Apothecary library — alongside the static reference data.
How do herbs and crystals appear in the Catalogue?
Open any correspondence and a two-column panel surfaces the herbs and crystals traditionally associated with it. The lists pull from the same Herbology and Crystals data that powers your Apothecary, so the entries are the working ones — not generic suggestions. Tap any herb or crystal to open its full Codex profile.
Why is correspondence work useful?
Correspondence is the underlying grammar of much magical practice. To say a herb is "venusian" is to say it carries the energy of love, beauty, pleasure, harmony — and that it sits naturally alongside rose quartz, the planet Venus, the day Friday, the element Earth, and the colour pink. Knowing the correspondences is what lets a witch compose a working from first principles rather than copying a recipe. The Catalogue surfaces those relationships as a working tool rather than a reference book — so the cross-references are visible at a glance, when you need them.
How does the Catalogue connect to the rest of Grimoire?
The Catalogue feeds the Spell Builder directly — when you choose an intent or a moon phase, the matching ingredients are surfaced from the same correspondence table. It connects out to the Herbology compendium and the Apothecary stock, so an entry in the Catalogue is one tap away from its full profile and your inventory. And it sits alongside the Sacred Calendar — the day-of-the-week and planetary-hour timing the Calendar tracks reads against the same table the Catalogue indexes.
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