Well tonight's a good night to start with the Super Moon
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I tend to make things up as I go along and always have but I'd say that I'm more of a folk-magic type of person rather than someone who has really studied esoteric stuff (that stuff tends to turn me off).
Turns out my Great Grandmother was a village wise-woman, midwife and layer out of the dead - I didn't know until many years after her death but it explains a lot about me and some of the women in my family
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I'd advise you to get hold of a good list of correspondences so that you can construct your own spells etc or even better, to begin to devise your own list of correspondences - herbs, days of the week, colours, phases of the moon etc...
Once you really start to make links between things, I think you're really on your way.
One of my favourite books has always been 'The Spiral Dance' by StarHawk... It's always been a little bit too 'Goddessy' for me but it does have lots of good, basic meditations, visualisation exercises etc and it does have a very good correspondence section as well as information about making poppets, herbal sachets, colour symbolism etc.
She knows what she's talking about and explains things in a very simple way (I think so anyway
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Most importantly - get out there and feel the Earth beneath your feet, sit under trees and talk to the moon..
Have fun
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