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I'm not sure what "fortune telling" means for you.
If it means answer "will x happen", of course the answer is yes. You can use the Yijing to answer that question.
But the diference, in my opinion, rest in other place: fortune telling, as I understand it, is all about fortune or destiny. The outcome or the future is external to the people's actions.
If you understand fortune telling this way, then the answer is no; that's not the way the Yijing works when it can help you to forsight the future.
Best wishes
The question may be whether you want change
- in/for yourself
- or in your theories about yourself and others.
In the first case you take your intentions/actions (self) as a starting point for questioning.
In the second case your starting points are the objects of your thoughts in theory.
In the first case the future may flow from the correctness of the source: “If he beginning is known, then the end will surely be known”, and ends lie in futures.
That is to say, the answer may be incorporated in what you feel/think. I Ching values quiet contemplation on the question as much as thoughtfully considering the impact of the answer on your being; it gives clear suggestions not to let the answer replace your thinking and subsequent actions.
In the second case an awful lot is possible, in theory ..
Not sure I understand the distinction. But anyway, would you say that one can ask the i Ching "Will I get that job interview" "Will my missing cat come home" or or even "If i bet on horse x will I win money?"
Clarity,
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