| From: | Mongoose <evamarie@**********.NET> |
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| Subject: | Hermetic Circles, Shamanic Lodges |
| Date: | Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:22:30 -0700 |
then
>inside you could put two circles of opposing elements on opposite sides of
>each other, they could then balance each other out possibly. You could even
>expand this even further to encompass all of the four elements into the
larger
>circle also, and keeping them on opposite sides from each other.
What is a "generic" hermetic circle? Theres no such thing in SR, afaik-
even ritual circle,s not detailed in SR#, are oriented to one spell type, and
hence indirectly to an elemnt. Sure, you could WARD your ritual spce, which
woulkd proably do just what you want, anyhow.
>The only question then, is what could go into the middle ... what Fifth
>Element would that be? I know for an Occidental (Wu Jen) mage, the center
>circle would be Light, but I don't recall anything from the Western
(European)
>pov.
I used to collect diagrams of ritual circles, and on impresion I got is
that the "gestalt" effect was much more important than the components- the
drawings are not terribly precise. Symbolism is very important in these
things. Unless the smaller ritual circles were somehow useful components of
the larger, they have no business inside it. I certainly wouldn't advise
jerking around with mojo that way, since you never know if you might misdirect
power in some way or something.
Mongoose
