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I can provide a planetary explanation of what went on, but its purely from my own correspondence.

The mirror is the moon, the unconscious, a reflection of the self and surroundings. Smashing the unconscious structure of somebody in their own self reflection or an environment, superstition about photographs taking the soul or locking a moment in time.

The black jar the poisonous herbs are Saturn, limit restriction, old age but also new growth and fertility, beginning and end of a cycle, the Saturn return. As is the black wax.

The rusty iron nails barbed wire etc encode mars, mars in a state of decay and regress, broken and unattended iron.

The unconscious (or astral if you like) structure of the home was poisoned and the occupants relationship to the home through an act that employed a set of correspondence thats about 3,000 years old (astrological) and also bears similarity to other cultural acceptance.

There is no real material evidence for this as it is not the objects that actually create the effects but the notion of the relationships that exist between them, at least in the way i work.

Any system that works with an ancestral structure also takes into account a common code that is shared amongst living and dead and then also begins to employ ancestry in the working of any practical application.

There is a huge generational charge connected to the idea of smashing a mirror as is there to poisonous herbs and the ruin of rusted metal.

Again i have to say that this is from my own personal system of working which is currently very planetary based so my reflections employ that method.

I believe alot of this rests on common shared beliefs or notions shared by the living and the dead, ambient contextual relationships that cross temporal boundaries created through common codes. (forgive my last sentence)

In other words sympathy. Shared through collective recognition that certain codes correspond to certain meaning or effect. Thus the idea of a spell becomes to create an effect field or network of relationships to create the desired effect. The more elements that correspond to common and shared codes within a system the more likely the response is going to be a desirable one.

Superstitions thus make a very suitable magical vehicle as they are very prevalent to common conception, astrology similarly so as it has been a cultural constant for many years and still is to one degree or another.

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