The stone circle seems as we left it, with the pillar of blue fire sinking and spreading outward through the water-lines. But there is something else there too, something we didn’t notice before: for though the ‘fire’ spreads easily along some of the lines, there is definite tension in one of them, where the fire moves onward only with evident difficulty. From our vantage-point high above the circle, we look more closely; there is something odd about that line, beyond the limit of the fire. It seems to be radiating ‘blackness’ in the same way that the fire-laden lines radiate light. The blue fire is ch’i; the black line, the black stream, carries sha; and some kind of conflict is taking place at the point […] Read More