🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦So here's a bit more of my divination stuff. I should stress that I don't think divination tools have any predictive validity. I am, however, fascinated with them as a way of breaking out of thought ruts; of forcing myself to look at things from a different perspective.<br>
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This, again, is based on the 易经 (Yìjīng or I-Ching or Book of Changes or Classic of Changes or ...) divination techniques. Over the history of the Yijing the tools used to divine from it have changed with changes in technology and style from the now-lost original yarrow stalk approach (very slow and meditative), to the coins approach (faster, but still ritualistic), to the new yarrow stalk approach (back to very slow), to bamboo slips (effectively like cards), to tiles, to actual cards, to even dice.<br>
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And these are obviously the dice.<br>
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There are a pair of eight-sided dice in each set, and a six-sided die. The eight-sided dice have on each face a trigram: the pair together form a hexagram. The role of the six-sided die...<br>
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Well here is where the "moving lines" of the Yijing come into play. See the traditional divination forms (yarrow stalks and coins) generate line by line *and* provide for fixed lines and "moving" lines: lines that flip. So when you generate a hexagram, anywhere from 0 to 6 lines will flip, giving you TWO hexagrams to look up and interpret.<br>
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Well, the die is a way of generating one of them. The lines, numbered 1-6 from bottom to top, are counted from the six-sided die roll and that line is flipped, *always* giving you a moving line (but only one). So if you're using dice to consult the Yijing, you always have two hexagrams that are mildly different from each other to look up. (This puts them above slips and cards for variety.)<br>
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More details, as usual, in the alt text.<br>
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(P.S. Stay tuned for a solo RP supplement based on the Yijing. I'm working on that for publication.)<br>
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