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I-Ching
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The I Ching or Book of Changes is an ancient Chinese text used as an oracle to find out the answers to troubling questions such as "what does the future hold for me?" The book consists of 64 hexagrams, which is the number of possible combinations of pairs of six broken or unbroken lines (trigrams).* |
The I Ching or Book of Changes is an ancient Chinese text
used as an oracle to find out the answers to troubling questions
such as "what does the future hold for me?" The book consists of
64 hexagrams, which is the number of possible combinations of
pairs of six broken or unbroken lines (trigrams).* The lines
represent the two primal cosmic principles in the universe, yin
(the broken lines) and yang (the unbroken lines). The trigrams
represent heaven, earth, thunder, water, mountain, wind, fire,
and lake.
The meanings of the hexagrams were divined many years ago by
Chinese philosopher-priests in tune with the tao (Chinese for
path or way). They consist of such bits of fortune cookie wisdom
as: "If you are sincere, you have light and success.
Perseverance brings good fortune" Or, "the superior man
discriminates between high and low."
One may consult the I Ching by flipping numbered coins and
adding up the numbers to determine the hexagram. Another method
involves dividing up bundles of yarrow stalks.
