Comments on: Ways to cast hexagrams with awareness http://onlineclarity.co.uk/answers/2007/10/24/ways-to-cast-hexagrams-with-awareness/ Readings, insights and understanding from the I Ching, the oracle of Change. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:34:07 +0000 By: VJ http://onlineclarity.co.uk/answers/2007/10/24/ways-to-cast-hexagrams-with-awareness/#comment-61236 VJ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:42:16 +0000 http://onlineclarity.co.uk/answers/2007/10/24/ways-to-cast-hexagrams-with-awareness/#comment-61236 I found 6 small, flat stone. On one side of the stone, I drew a yin line, on the other, a yang line. I keep them in a drawstring pouch, which I shake and then select, one at a time without looking, the six stones to construct the hexagram. This is not my original idea, but one I got from Cassandra Eason's I Ching: Divination for Today's Woman, 1994. I never thought of reading out of doors, but the stones would likely feel very at home there, so I will be using you suggestion. I found 6 small, flat stone. On one side of the stone, I drew a yin line, on the other, a yang line. I keep them in a drawstring pouch, which I shake and then select, one at a time without looking, the six stones to construct the hexagram.

This is not my original idea, but one I got from Cassandra Eason’s I Ching: Divination for Today’s Woman, 1994.

I never thought of reading out of doors, but the stones would likely feel very at home there, so I will be using you suggestion.

]]> By: Hilary http://onlineclarity.co.uk/answers/2007/10/24/ways-to-cast-hexagrams-with-awareness/#comment-60958 Hilary Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:48:20 +0000 http://onlineclarity.co.uk/answers/2007/10/24/ways-to-cast-hexagrams-with-awareness/#comment-60958 Nice! Do you find that the specific 'mixed' trigrams you draw affects the way you read the resulting hexagram? Nice!

Do you find that the specific ‘mixed’ trigrams you draw affects the way you read the resulting hexagram?

]]> By: re5ga http://onlineclarity.co.uk/answers/2007/10/24/ways-to-cast-hexagrams-with-awareness/#comment-60954 re5ga Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:14:09 +0000 http://onlineclarity.co.uk/answers/2007/10/24/ways-to-cast-hexagrams-with-awareness/#comment-60954 2. Choose your method: Try cards. Because of the discipline which I derived from: Bridge and gambling, I found a long while ago that I did not like cumbersome stalks and messy coins, beads, or colored tokens and sought to revert to the familiar deck of cards. I found that there existed trigram card sets that I could combine in yarrow odds: 1 earth, 3 heaven, 5 mixed yang, 7 mixed yin equaling 16 cards, and with three sets like this I had a deck of 48 cards, close enough to 52 to satisfy tactile needs. They have served well over 15 years and have proven as portable as imagined. It's a simple routine: Shuffle a few times, cut and turn the top card -- first line; redo five times; reading. The deck, some 3x5s, and a pen; equipt. 2. Choose your method: Try cards. Because of the discipline which I derived from: Bridge and gambling, I found a long while ago that I did not like cumbersome stalks and messy coins, beads, or colored tokens and sought to revert to the familiar deck of cards. I found that there existed trigram card sets that I could combine in yarrow odds: 1 earth, 3 heaven, 5 mixed yang, 7 mixed yin equaling 16 cards, and with three sets like this I had a deck of 48 cards, close enough to 52 to satisfy tactile needs. They have served well over 15 years and have proven as portable as imagined. It’s a simple routine: Shuffle a few times, cut and turn the top card — first line; redo five times; reading. The deck, some 3×5s, and a pen; equipt.

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