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The I
Ching Oracle is a divination technique with a history going
back more than 5000 years, when the sage Fu Si observed all
natural phenomenon (heaven, fire, water, thunder, mountain,
lake, wind). He expressed each of these with broken (yin)
or continuous lines (yang), which form a trigram. More information
was obtained when two trigrams where put together, thus reflecting
their interrelationships.
The
original purpose of I Ching was for divination. It is still
used today in the same way by professional fortune tellers
in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.
However,
the I Ching known to the West is the one compiled 3000 years
later by Confucius and King Wen. The purpose of Confucius,
being both a scholar and politician, was to rule a country
and a family according to morality principles.
In order
to cast the I Ching Oracle, a specific question must be clearly
formed and confined to a time limit.
Questions may include any subject such as money, career, health,
relationships, travel, lost items, elections, stock markets
etc.
To perform
the I Ching Oracle, three coins are tossed up six times by
the person asking the question in order to form a hexagram.
Using
special rules used for thousands of years by Chinese sages,
each line of the hexagram is converted into elements and animals.
Then the subject/object line of the hexagram is identified.
By logical deduction, the strength of each line is determined,
but also with regard to the season/month for when the I Ching
Oracle is consulted.
The person
who poses the question will then receive valuable information
about the exact situation and also about the outcome and timing
of the particular question. |
