====== Appendix II: Mystical Symbolism ======

===== BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE =====

[[:rpg:charloft:rpg:chapter08|Chapter 08: Magic, Psionics, and Metapowers]] provides basic information on ritual specifics for each spell. Some may want to bring further depth to in-game rituals. This section contains a handy list of practices, 
references, incantations, and items to choose from when devising spells. As a general rule, assume that you 
need one item, incantation, or the like for each power level of the spell.

The shopping list is divided into various sections. Try not to pick too many ingredients from any one list. 
Most spells require a variety of incantations, materials, and general hokum to get the job done.

==== Points of the Compass ====

It is common Wiccan practice to "call the corners" when beginning a spell casting. Compass points may 
find a place in your Series' spellcraft. Each point has a particular element and season attached to it. We've also 
listed the associated Tarot suite and power type (we made up that last part) as ritual element suggestions.

^ Direction ^ Season ^ Element ^ Tarot Suit ^
| North | Winter | Earth | Pentacles/Coins |
| South | Summer | Fire | Wands |
| East | Spring | Air | Swords |
| West | Autumn | Water | Cups |

==== Powers That Be ====

Spells seem to involve frequent invoking of deities, demigods and spirits like Thespia and Osiris. We've 
collected a relatively short list of divinities and their areas of expertise. This is by no means exhaustive. Note that calling on powers for aid often relies on them judging you kindly for best success.

=== Angels ===

| Gabriel | Love, tolerance, gratitude |
| Jophiel | Illumination, wisdom, perception |
| Micheal | War (he cast out Lucifer) |
| Raphael | Healing, truth |
| Uriel | Death, peace, ministration |
| Zadiel | Refinement, invocation, transformation |

=== Devils ===

| Lucifer | Morningstar, Lord of the Devils, Satan, Asmodius, Baalzebub |
| Astaroth | Time, keeper of secrets |
| Bael | Invisibility (first lieutenant of Satan) |
| Belial | Gifts that require sacrifice in return (twin of Lucifer) |
| Cimejas | Language, the finder of lost things |
| Dantallon | Secrets, love, knows and changes human thoughts |
| Glasya-Labolas | Slaughter, turns friends into enemies |
| Malphas | Construction, building |
| Murmur | Philosophy, can ask secrets from the dead |
| Seere | Travel, theft, keeper of hidden treasures |
| Vepar | Storms, death by infection |

=== Egyptian Gods ===

| Anubis | Lands of the dead |
| Bast | Cats |
| Geb | Earth |
| Hathor | Women, fertility, childbirth |
| Isis | Magic (mother of the gods) |
| Nephthys | Dead (mother of Anubis) |
| Osiris | Death, rebirth (son of Ra) |
| Qetesh | Love, beauty |
| Ra | Sun |
| Set | Chaos |
| Thoth | Knowledge |

=== Roman and Greek Gods ===

| Greek Name | Roman Name | Domain |
| Zeus | Jupiter | Sky, heavens (king of gods) |
| Poseidon | Neptune | Sea |
| Hades | Pluto | Underworld |
| Hera | Juno | Marriage (queen of gods) |
| Hestia | Vesta | Hearth, home |
| Ares | Mars | War, Madness |
| Athena | Minerva | Education, science, virginity |
| Apollo | Sol/Pheobus | Sun |
| Artemis | Diana | Hunt, moon |
| Aphrodite | Venus | Love, beauty |
| Hermes | Mercury | Commerce, speed, travel |
| Hephaestus | Vulcan | Creation, forge, fire |
| Eros | Cupid | Love |
| Persephone | Proserpina | Spring (unwilling bride of Pluto) |
| Dionysos | Bacchus | Wine, revelry |
| Demeter | Ceres | Earth, harvest |
| Pan | Inuus/Faunus  | Trickery (son of Hermes) |
| Kastor & Polydeukes | Castor & Pollux | Heavenly Twins |
| Aeolus | | King of winds |
| Boreas | | North wind |
| Zephir | | West wind |
| Notus | | South wind |
| Eurus | | East wind |
| Iris | | Rainbow |
| Aether | | Light |
| Hygeia | | Health |
| Hebe | | Youth |
| Hecate | | Trivia Dark, magic |
| Eris | Discordia | Discord, strife (daughter of Ares) |
| Nike | Victory | Victory |
| Erinyes | Furies | Deliverers of Justice |
| Eos | Aurora | Dawn |
| Hespera | | Dusk |
| Hypnos | | Sleep |
| Nemesis | | Revenge |
| Mors | | Death |
| Morpheus | Morpheus | Dreams |

=== The Muses ===

| Clio | History |
| Urania | Astronomy |
| Melpomene | Tragedy |
| Thalia | Comedy |
| Terspichore | Dance |
| Calliope | Epic poetry |
| Erato | Love poetry |
| Polyhymnia | Songs of the gods |
| Euterpe | Lyric poetry |
| Fama | Fame, rumor |
| Asclepius | Healing, medicine |

=== The Graces ===

| Aglaia | Splendor |
| Euphrosyne | Mirth |
| Thalia | Good cheer |

=== The Fates ===

Clotho: Spun the threads of fate

Lachesis: Measured the threads of fate

Atropos: Cut the threads of fate

=== Celtic Gods ===

| Arawn | Underworld |
| Arianrhod | Moon, reincarnation |
| Balor | Death (Fomorian king) |
| Bile | Light, healing |
| Bran | Poetry, underworld (a hero god) |
| Brigid | Healing, fertility, the hearth, poetry, smithing, medicine |
| Cerridwen | Mother, moon, grain |
| Cernunnos  |Fertility, life, animals, the underworld, reincarnation |
| Cyhiraeth | Streams (spectre haunting wood land streams) |
| Dagda | Earth, treaties, life, death |
| Danu | Rivers, wells, prosperity, plenty, magic, wisdom (mother of gods) |
| Epona | Horses |
| Gwydion | Warriors, magicians |
| Lugh | Sun, harvest |
| Manannan mac Lir | Sea, fertility |
| Math-Mathonwy | Sorcery |
| Morrigan | Battles, war, death, strife, fertility |
| Nuada | Healing, the sun, childbirth, youth, beauty, ocean, dogs, poetry, writing, sorcery, magic, weapons |
| Ogma | Eloquence, learning |
| Ogmios | Poetry, language, eloquence |
| Rhiannon | Fertility, underworld |
| Sucellus | Forests, agriculture (ferries dead to the underworld) |
| Taranis | Thunder, master of the sky |
| Teutates | War, fertility, wealth |

=== Voodoo Loa ===

| Agwe | Water, sea |
| Ayida-Wedo | Wisdom (serpent consort of Damballah) |
| Damballah | Wisdom, love, luck (serpent consort of Ayida-Wedo) |
| Erzulie | Love, those rejected by love |
| Legba | Paths, crossroads (appears as an old man) |
| Oggun | War, strength |
| Shango | Fire, violent, extreme |

==== Candles ====

Things just don't look properly magical unless you are surrounded by candles. Consider specific colors 
of candle when looking for ingredients.

| White | Protection, peace, purity, truth |
| Red | Sexual love, passion, energy, health, courage, fire |
| Pink | Emotional love, friendships |
| Orange | Strength, authority, attraction |
| Yellow | Divination, clairvoyance, mental acuity |
| Yellow-Green | Sickness, cowardice, jealousy |
| Green | Healing, prosperity, fertility |
| Light Blue | Healing, meditation, tranquility, air |
| Dark Blue | Impulsiveness, changeability, shapeshifting, water |
| Purple | Power, healing |
| Brown | Physical objects, animals, home, hearth, earth |
| Black | Absorption of negative energy or evil, loss, confusion, discord |
| Silver/Gray | Cancellation, stalemate, neutrality |

==== Dates ====

Specific dates seem to be essential for any major magic working. The following list of the pagan festivals 
may be useful. A date is supplied, but the real time depends of moon phases and seasonal shift rather than the 
calendar. The festivals are listed here in the order they occur in the year, but remember they are part of a cyclic 
pattern with no real beginning or end.

^ Name ^ Date ^ Notes ^
| Imbolc | Feb 2nd | Fire festival to herald the coming of summer |
| Ostara | March 21st | Spring equinox, time of planning and planting |
| Beltane | April 30th | Fertility festival celebrating physical and emotional love |
| Midsummer | June 21st | Summer solstice, high point for magic and harvesting |
| Lughnasadh | August 1st | First harvest, time to finally reap what was sown |
| Mabon | Sept 21st | Autumn equinox, time of leavetaking, summer's bounty fades |
| Samhain | Oct 31st | All Hallows Eve, Halloween, time of the dead, when spirit and physical mingle |
| Yule | Dec 21st | Winter solstice, sun is reborn, shortest day, winter fades |

==== Signs, Symbols, and Language ====

Whether spoken or written, word and symbols have power. They allow you to focus your mind and power in a definite direction.

Each element has a symbol, and so do most demons. Some are as simple as a triangle while others resemble circuit diagrams. The most common symbol is of course the circle. Large-scale ritual spells tend to require sitting in a magic circle to cast. Circles are usually used for warding, and therefore protect the caster from any harmful magic they may call up. Just for the record, there are two ways of moving inside a magical circle, Deosil (clockwise) and Widdershins (counterclockwise).  That will impress the Wicca wanna-bes.

Another symbol worth mentioning is the pentacle. This is a five-pointed star inside a circle. It represents 
the four elements and the spirit, and is a powerful symbol of protection. This is why you see dark sorcerers 
standing in pentacles to do their magic. If you are playing with terrible forces of darkness, you need all the protection you can get.

There are three languages of choice for magic. Latin in the most obvious, but a close second is Hebrew. 
Interestingly all Hebrew letters have an associated number, which allow you to add up the value of words.
Seeking meaning in the relations between words and their numbers is a whole branch of occult lore 
called Numerology. The last language worth looking at is Enochian - developed by an Elizabethan sorcerer 
called John Dee. It is made up of lines connected together with circles in odd patterns.

==== Herbs and Oddments ====

=== Herbs ===

| Cinnamon | Business, divination, healing |
| Cyclamen | Protection |
| Frankincense | Peace, purification |
| Hemlock | Death, dark magic |
| Jasmine | Love, money |
| Mandrake | Fertility |
| Mugwort | Divination |
| Nutmeg | Divination |
| Patchouli | Divination, money |
| Rosemary | Divination, healing, love, mental power, protection, purification, youth |
| Rue | Mental power, purification |
| Sage | Healing, money |

=== Items ===

| Arrow | News |
| Basket | Gifts |
| Bees | Industry, community |
| Bell | Celebration (marriage), death (funerals) |
| Broom | Purification (sweeping out) |
| Cauldron | Transformation |
| Clock | Time |
| Crown | Success, power |
| Egg | Fertility |
| Eyes | Perception, evaluation |
| Hair | Thought, wisdom |
| Key | Enlightenment (unlock the mysteries) |
| Mirror | Divination, protection (reflects power) |
| Salt | Purification, protection, warding |
| Sword | Direction, conflict |

=== Crystals ===

Amber: Aids memory and past regression

Amethyst: Aids enlightenment and mental clarity, dispells illusion, helps meditation, intuition, healing, 
and inspiration

Carnelian: Aids healing

Clear Quartz: Dispels negativity, excels at moving and manipulating raw energy

Hematite: Aids prosperity and general mental well being, inspires optimism, courage, personal magnetism

Malachite: Aids prosperity

Rose Quartz: Aids forgiveness and love

Smoky Quartz: Releases negativity, enlightens darkness, boosts dreams and channeling

Sodolite: Aids clarity, communication, and insight

Turquoise: The master healing stone