Cropless Crop Circles (Sand Circles; San Francisco Area)

[punychicken]

This site is all about Sand Circles.

Large designs have been appearing on San Francisco's ocean beach tidal flats at low tides.

It is through a combination of being meticulous, sacred geometry and working with the cycles of nature in mind (ie the ebb and flow of the tides). We use a simple tool-kit of string, a couple hand rakes and a smoothing trowel.

Each piece might have its own personal meaning to the creator but the common thread between all the designs is self similarity, harmony, balance and pleasing design. Each piece should have its own unique meaning to each person viewing it.

Fascinating endeavour really.

 

[Jerry_B]

One wonders when people will start to claim sightings of BOLs, energy fields, orgone, etc. at such sites...

 

[EnolaGaia]

The link in post #1 is dead. The originally linked material can be accessed (if only partially) at the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/2005032...?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=85

 

[escargot]

There are also snow circles and ice (on water) circles.

 

[Mikefule]

http://www.sandcircles.co.uk

The URL says it all. Some nice pictures here.

If you set aside all the woo woo about sacred geometry, it is simply well executed and beautiful ephemeral art, worthy of admiration in its own right. And no farmers' property or business was damaged in the making of it.

Whenever someone says "sacred", especially if the word is followed by "geometry" my immediate reaction is "sacred to whom?"

People use the word as if it implies that sacredness is something inherent in the thing it describes, whereas all it describes is a set of attitudes towards, or beliefs about, that thing.

In many cases, it is used by people who were not brought up in the relevant belief system if indeed it ever existed outside of their own speculation and wishful thinking.

A sacred square is a geometrical shape that someone attaches religious or spiritual significance to, but it is still just a square.

 

[Mikefule]

There are also snow circles and ice (on water) circles.

Now ice circles are indeed an interesting and Fortean phenomenon: rotating discs of ice that form naturally in eddies on rivers in exactly the right circumstances. They can be a few centimetres across or many metres across. Ice circes can be explained by a combination of maths and physics, of course, but there is also a feeling of something magical about them because they form perfect circles in what is otherwise a chaotic environment.

 

[EnolaGaia]

Now ice circles are indeed an interesting and Fortean phenomenon: rotating discs of ice that form naturally in eddies on rivers in exactly the right circumstances. ...

We have one or more threads discussing ice circles, such as:

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/ice-circles.49906/

... and even a thread about similar circular 'islands' composed of vegetative matter:

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index...pond-with-the-circular-rotating-island.61651/