The Twelve Coins Of ( Ling Chi Chin )

[jerryd]

Is anyone useing this method and will you discuss it with me comparitavely to the YI.

[heylise]

Hi Jerry
I use the LingQiJing quite often, because it adds a very different meaning when I ask a question of YiJing. In my eyes, all hexagrams are neutral, they are archetypal images of situations, without any judgment of good and bad.
Occasionally, I want to know if that situation is good or not, or how it might develop, to a positive or to a negative result. The YiJing gives me directions how to act for a good result, but very often one needs a bit of assurance, a little hug, a warning, things like that. And for that, the LQJ is the perfect tool. It adds the emotional side of the question.

And then there is the link between the two. The trigraphs of the LQJ have 4 qualities, old and young yang/yin. If you write those as digrams, each of them, you get a complete hexagram. E.g. 'old yang' as two unbroken lines, etc.

When you also make the trigraph 'change', like you would do with a hexagram, you get a second hexagram too.

I never found out though what to do with the 'zero' lines in that respect.

LiSe

[jerryd]

LiSe: Thank you up front for this; I have just come across this method and it is new to me. I have arleady seen what I have thought of as potential in it finding exactly what you have pointed out. I think your asurance and conformation of this will be a huge benefit to me. As a forgone skeptic of all things till it proves it self and having spent so much of life in the world of science and medicine assurences of his kind are truly meaningful to my search.

Best of all things LiSe\ jerryd