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Old 09-28-2024, 04:57 PM   #2
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Default Re: Ritual Magic modifiers for mythic China

If you happen to have Thaumatology, p. 255 has a table for symbolic correspondences in the Taoist mystical tradition. It's much shorter and less detailed than the book's Hermetic tables, but it's enough to get started. Relevantly for you purposes, it suggests that "birth" is associated with the element of Wood, which is in turn associated with such things as the planet Jupiter, eastward directions, sour or goatish tastes and smells, doorways, wind, wheat, sheep, scaly animals, and the color green. You ought to be able to construct a decent ritual out of that.

EDIT: It doesn't go into enough detail to differentiate a fertility ritual from a sterility ritual, but if you design one of them, and then make sure the other is similar but with the actions symbolically reversed, that should probably be good enough to satisfy the mystic forces.
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