The Column and the Star

For the longest time, whenever i had new correpondence notes to make, i sketched out a little 6 Point Star. Three points, plus three paths between them which also had the importance of points. This formed my first diagram: the Element Star.

But I wasn't wholly happy with it because, ultimately, I don't think the powers of this system ARE formed like a star. There's a superficial resemblence to Jewish mysticism which I'd like to move away from; one of the paths between Sun and Star is twice the length of the other; and it implies a cosy and ordered sense of balance, like the reassuring stand-right-in-the-middle-surrounded-by-your-stuff of a Hexagram invocation (which is, itself, a Solar and satisfied thing).

I made this diagram right after. This is more like it. It's the same star, but it emphasises the underlying motion is always a tension between Solar and Stellar. It introduces the idea that there are two moons, or maybe multiple moons.

Each path is formed of two lines. I just went for it with colours.The right hand triangle has the colours of light and the colours of the landscape you'll recognise from other diagrams. The other triangle focuses on colour themes which are new or little-represented - a dreamlike purple sky, of clouds and psychedelic dappling in the colours of the air, echoing the psychedelic land on the other branch; Lightbringer as electricity; then the Queen of the Witches as the Night Flight. Then, the autumnal and wooden and dull metallic colours of the mortal world, and the rich reds of the fae and the blood in the forest. The white and black section looks effective, but is also unfinished. It may or may not be correct. I keep making diagrams because every time an image is 80% there but has obvious gaps, it opens questions of how to fill them. Those questions are Landweird, and they move me to seek.

As of now, this is probably the best of the diagrams.

These things are, of course, expanding from a center - a bit like this or this: