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Hi, Petro:I came across an interesting section in a wikipedia article a few weeks ago about probabilistic mathematics and the I ching. A I Ching practitioners/mathematicians have discovered a way to preserve the probabilities of the yarrow-stalk method through the use of cards. (Read about Probabilistic Mathematics or I Ching Geometry for a fuller discussion of this subject)
You take one of one suit (say, diamonds); three of a second suit; five of a third; and 7 of a fourth. The one of one suit corresponds to old yin; the three of of the second suit, old yang; the five of the third suit, young yang; and the seven of the fourth suit, young yin.
I've been using this method, and I find I'm liking it better than the simple coin method. Plus, it's nice because it doesn't take as long to get your hexagram as does the yarrow-stalk method. But it's long enough to induce the meditative frame of mind needed to really penetrate the unconscious.
I came across an interesting section in a wikipedia article a few weeks ago about probabilistic mathematics and the I ching. A I Ching practitioners/mathematicians have discovered a way to preserve the probabilities of the yarrow-stalk method through the use of cards. (Read about Probabilistic Mathematics or I Ching Geometry for a fuller discussion of this subject)
You take one of one suit (say, diamonds); three of a second suit; five of a third; and 7 of a fourth. The one of one suit corresponds to old yin; the three of of the second suit, old yang; the five of the third suit, young yang; and the seven of the fourth suit, young yin.
I've been using this method, and I find I'm liking it better than the simple coin method. Plus, it's nice because it doesn't take as long to get your hexagram as does the yarrow-stalk method. But it's long enough to induce the meditative frame of mind needed to really penetrate the unconscious.
I think we're in that thread already. Nobody seems too interested though.
As far as I ching goes I agree entirely with Dobro view of 6th Dec.
I'm afraid you can't do that, Jeb. What I posted 6 December wasn't a view, it was a question.
Geeze, even when they agree with you, you play the contrarian?? LOL!!
Although that of course changes the odds, the discovery didn't affect my sense of the validity of the reading.
Funny, I just discovered that I haven't been playing with all my marbles! Noticed after a reading (my annual reading, no less) that there were only 15 marbles in the bowl. I've been missing an unchanging yin for who knows how long. Although that of course changes the odds, the discovery didn't affect my sense of the validity of the reading. For the marbles method, as (miakoda) says, casting is very tactile, and my fingertips don't seem to care what they're choosing from. If the changing yin had been missing (the marble of which there is only one), I might have felt differently. Or I might have just taken that fact as additional information in an ongoing conversation with the universe...
Clarity,
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London.
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United Kingdom
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