The secret of the flying woman or the Confession of Tea Elder

Chapter Five

Take the opportunity to pilfer a goat

The elder girls got together in the practicing room. They were cheerfully chatting. I noticed little sachets filled with rather big – the size of a dove’s egg – burnished pebbles of various colours. Everyone had five pebbles: blue, red, yellow, green and white.

The most challenging task was to correctly locate the pebbles in their jade chambers – so that each pebble matched the associated organ. The sensitivity of the jade chamber had to be such that each girl could feel the ‘energy’ of the pebbles.

The blue pebble (however, not always was it of really blue colour, as each girl had a unique date of birth, and the pebbles where chosen to match her Zodiac sign, and to match the amount of energy of each organ, reducing or re-enforcing it), had to be located right at the entrance to the jade chamber, in the place where the outer petals of the bud open and embrace the energy of the pebble. The next was to be the green pebble – the eyes of the liver, and still further the yellow one, which embodied the golden trabeculae of the spleen; still further, closer to the inner gate of the jade chamber, on both the sides of the entrance, was the place for the red and the white pebbles, like flame, which added pink tint to a white lily and turned it into a lotus (the heart which gives love, and the lungs, which give life).

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