Countless books are out there
The historical problem with magical correspondences is that no one ever fully agrees on attributions, and this was one criticism that rationalists launched against Hermeticists at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution. The original idea was that energy from the Primum Mobile worked its way down through to the sensible world through the Zodiac, planets, etc. and manifested in this or that object, or a as quality of this or that, and that you could use these correspondences in magical operations. In effect, the original energy is present in material, though nowadays this is general considered symbolic, not literal, given what we know about material things (or think we know).
Up into the Victorian Age you see with the likes of the Golden Dawn that their lists are somehow scientifically precise, as in, if you are skrying/pathworking in a given region, you should see X,Y,Z to know you are on the right path. But I have found that this is "putting the cart before the horse"*, so to speak. If I am told what I am supposed to see, then my subconscious will generate it even if I pretend to be objective in a dream world.
From this I learned, for myself, that the correspondences are supplemental symbolism of symbolic relationships to the path in general - that is, they are not
necessarily verifiers, they are additional symbolism used for reinforcement of a given energetic line of experience.
You could take the view, as I have, that magical correspondences are also by no means complete at all, nor are they absolute - in fact, their very existence as concepts points to the relative, fluctuating nature of "Spirit" as it manifests in our experience. That aside, they are a form of
language with which one can establish relationships with the Spirit in its myriad forms. But if you were to set the books aside and look at forming your own, then you can think of it as such -
your language,
your symbolism, interconnected with your experience. I had always thought this was one of the more charming points of Chaos Magic, but there needs to be consistency.
And the old school stuff, whether cross referencing agrees, can still very much apply - in fact, those old correspondences might sneak up on you to remind you they are there. Omens and such.
*Not in the sense of Descartes - a different animal, he having reduced "matter" to mechanism (still technically "ideas" in a dream sense), though I am not sure if he discounted celestial influences entirely.
I had similar experience hunting it down, and one lady told me to just use oregano, which I did. I felt like I was in a pizza parlor. I eventually found it locally, and I admit that the visions that came through from it were startling for their clarity.
I believe Crowley recounted in his Confessions that he and a partner used it in a Goetia evocation to help a friend (Bennet?), but I would have to go back and re-read that again. My impression was his descriptions of the spirit did not add up, but the operation worked, though he himself did not seem impressed by the results.
