[Hexagram] The Fate of Communism

[hundred_Viet]

One day in mid-2017, in Vietnam, I suddenly got an amazing hexagram which tells me about the fate of communism. The content of this hexagram is:

十八戊戌大變故
中凶
紅五
光復
易生

下
初六晨雞一聲
六二紅昇黃降
九三運竭悲怛

上
易棋

The upper trigram is hidden in 易棋 which I’ve introduced there https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/fri...-board-game-based-on-the-lo-shu-square.25332/

The third NINE predicts that Maduro’s reign will end in Venezuela. If it comes true, I will explain more about the hexagram.

 

[rosada]

What hexagrams did you get? (English please!)

 

[hundred_Viet]

This hexagram is generated by a Vietnamese oracle.

九三運竭悲怛 means: the third NINE, fortune is exhausted, bad consequence.

I thought that it referred to Maduro. But it actually refers to MobiFone-AVG bribery in my country, Vietnam.

 

[hilary]

What book does this hexagram text come from, please?

 

[hundred_Viet]

This hexagram is described in written Chinese language. It's really hard for interpretion. I've made a lot of explanation about the script in Vietnamese and have shared them into Vietnamese I Ching forums for the last 2 years. But my English is not good enough to do so in English.

Let me explain more about this special hexagram.

十八戊戌大變故 means: a period of time, there is a lot of great unforeseen events, starting in 2018 in Lunar calendar.

中凶 means: the middle of the period is terrible, China is terrible. It refers to the novel coronavirus outbreak in China during the lunar new year 2020 holiday.

紅五 means: Red Five. Zicky (易棋) is a board game simulating the China–United States trade war, the competition between Blue Five (U.S) and Red Five (China). 紅五 indicates that China will win the trade war.

光復 means: the return of the light. It indicates that China will become world No 1.

易生 means: a new version of the Book of Changes is created.

According to this hexagram, the period will end in 2021 in Lunar calendar. The world will have to spend the entire 2020 dealing with COVID-19. In 2021, the world economy will really get bad.

Beside this special hexagram, I also have another hexagram for the COVID-19 fight. Hexgram 36: Fire (Li) inside Belly (K'un). Hexagram 36 shows me that practicing "belly breathing" every day is able to prevent the spread of COVID-19. And here is a belly breathing technique to help you fight coronavirus

The next three months are really serious for the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK and the US. Stay at home. Take care of yourself. And good luck!

 

[rosada]

Again, which hexagram?

 

[hundred_Viet]

@rosada @Freedda sorry for not making clear from the beginning. This 'special hexagram' is not among 64 hexagrams which were explained by King Wen of Zhou and his son, Duke of Zhou. For thousands of years, many oracles of China and Vietnam have used hexagrams together with Traditional Chinese to write their own prophecies as King Wen and Duke of Zhou did. And the hexagram I've shared with you is created by a Vietnamese oracle.

 

[hilary]

Thanks. I thought the text wasn't familiar. It's interesting that more oracles than the legendary three have been created with the hexagrams. Do you know the date of this one?

 

[hundred_Viet]

Each usual hexagram consists of two trigrams: the below one (or the inside one) and the above one (or the outside one). Each trigram includes three lines: the bottom one, the middle one, and the top one. King Wen of Zhou wrote explanations of the entire hexagrams, and then, Duke of Zhou commented on the individual lines of the hexagrams.

My 'strange hexagram' has the similar structure.

Explanation of the entire hexagram:
(1) 十八戊戌大變故
(2) 中凶
(3) 紅五
(4) 光復
(5) 易生

Explanation of the separate lines:
下 (the below trigram)
初六晨雞一聲 (the initial SIX)
六二紅昇黃降 (the second SIX)
九三運竭悲怛 (the third NINE)

上 (the above trigram)
易棋 (Board Game of Changes)


The hexagram talks about a period of time which contains five highlights: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5). The interval of time is divided into two halves. The previous part is associated with the below trigram and the next one is associated with the above trigram. Three lines of the 'inside' (below) trigram are related to three events which Vietnamese citizens pay the most attention to. The prervious part begins with 'the initial SIX', has 'the second SIX' in the middle, and ends with 'the third NINE'. The 'outside' (above) trigram is hidden in Board Game of Changes.

When I've just received the hexagram, I didn't understand its text. Therefore, I was focused on Board Game of Changes. I created a mobile version for this game and shared it into the forum in December 2017. During 2018 and 2019, I spent a lot of time on interpreting the text. And until the COVID-19 outbreak occurred in China, I just understood the text.

I thought the ending of Maduro’s reign in Venezuela would have a huge impact on the communism in Vietnam and corresponded to the third NINE. The 'third NINE' event finishes the first half of the hexagram and leads to the middle event (中凶). MobiFone-AVG deal went to court in December 2019. And the coronavirus outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019.

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I'd like to explain more clearly but my English doesn't allow me to do so.

 

[hundred_Viet]

The lower trigram is formed of three lines: the first SIX, the second SIX and the third NINE. So it's just Mountain (K'en). The upper trigram is undefined, but must be one of the eight trigrams. And it's hidden in Board Game of Changes.

 

[hundred_Viet]

Will we have the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year?
Can China win big in the vaccine race and then win the trade war with the US in 2021?

Vietnam, which shares a border with China and is about 1,200 miles from where the outbreak was first reported in Wuhan, has been one of the most successful examples in the world in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The country has not seen a single death caused by the virus, and is easing its lockdown measures.

What are behind Viet Nam's successful story?
Vietnamese oracles?

Now, I'm going to share a Vietnam's preventive measure against the COVID-19 spread.

 

[charly]

Zicky:
Is maybe this?

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Source:

Zicky (易棋) - a board game based on the I Ching (易經)

Hi there! Does anyone here know about the I Ching (易經) ? Recently, Yue people have invented a board game based on the Lo Shu square of the I Ching. And Ive just made a mobile version for it, called Zicky (易棋). You can download it on the App Store or Google Play. Hope you enjoy it

www.chinese-forums.com

Ch.

 

[charly]

Zicky: Is maybe this?

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Divining, Playing and Gambling ...

There were always close connections among DIVINATION, GAMES PLAYING and GAMBLING.
And the Changes is not an exception:


About the lost game of LIUBO:

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The players' moves were determined by throwing six long, two-sided sticks known as bó 簙 onto the mat, and counting the number and/or sequence of face-up and face-down sticks. As can be seen from most of the pictures below, the game starts with the six game pieces of each player lined up neatly on the player's side of the board, and the six throwing sticks lined up neatly in the throwing area. However, in Picture 1.11 the six throwing sticks are splayed out as if they have just been thrown, and two of each player's game pieces have been moved out of line and onto the playing area of the board; and so it would seem that pieces were moved onto the board one at a time according to the throw of the sticks.

The casting of six 'sticks' in order to determine the players' moves is more than a little reminiscent of the practice of casting dried yarrow stalks in Yi Jing divination, and it may well have been that the pattern of upsides and downsides of the six sticks cast by each player would be interpretted as one of the sixty-four hexagrams (䷀䷁䷂䷃...䷼䷽䷾䷿) in order to determine (in some unknown manner) the movement of game pieces onto and/or about the board.
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One of the earliest and most interesting descriptions of the game occurs in the song Zhao Hun 招魂 "Summons of the Soul", which is found in the Chu Ci 楚辭 anthology of songs (better known in English as the Songs of the South) that were written in the region of the Chu state during the Warring States period. In describing the delights of the world of the living in order to tempt the wandering soul back to life, the poet writes that after the banquet is over :

菎蔽象棊，有六簙些。
分曹並進，遒相迫些。
成梟而牟，呼五白些。

Then with bamboo dice and ivory pieces the game of Liu Bo is begun;
Sides are taken; they advance together; keenly they threaten each other.
Pieces are kinged and the scoring doubled. Shouts of ‘five white!’ arise.

David Hawkes, The Songs of the South (Penguin Books, 1985) page 229.​

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Source:
Babelstone Blog, The Lost Game of Liubo

BabelStone Blog : The Lost Game of Liubo Part 1 : Funerary Statuettes

May you enjoy it,

Charly

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[hundred_Viet]

@charly It's exactly Zicky, Board Game of Changes. And thank you for share information about LIUBO.

Early action, meticulous contact tracing and public communication have contributed to Vietnam’s success in handling the Covid-19 pandemic and preventing any deaths, CNN said.

How Vietnam managed to keep its coronavirus death toll at zero | CNN

Vietnam, a country of 97 million people, has not reported a single coronavirus-related death and on Saturday had just 328 confirmed cases, despite its long border with China and the millions of Chinese visitors it receives each year.

edition.cnn.com

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Vietnam started preparing for a coronavirus outbreak weeks before its first case was detected.
At the time, the Chinese authorities and the World Health Organization had both maintained that there was no "clear evidence'' for human-to-human transmission. But Vietnam was not taking any chances.
"We were not only waiting for guidelines from WHO. We used the data we gathered from outside and inside (the country to) decide to take action early"...

The greatest national treasures of Vietnam are Bronze Drums. They were symbol of power of Vietnamese ancient kings who are also powerful oracles. Bronze Drums were taken for a form of "the lord of mountains" in the Vietnamese spirit, UMBRELLA-SHAPED MOUNTAIN.

And this 'special' hexagram is created by the oracle of UMBRELLA-SHAPED MOUNTAIN.

The first wave of COVID-19 is not over. But the second wave in the second half of the year is coming.
Be careful!
Remember hexagram 36 - darkening of the light - concealment of illumination - a symbol of social distancing.
Practice BOTTLE BREATHING (= BELLY BREATHING + SALT WATER GARGLING) to boost the immune system and reduce stress.
And wait for a coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020.

 

[hundred_Viet]

The UK newswire The Telegraph has recently published an article, hailing Vietnam’s success in controlling the recent second wave of the coronavirus.

How Vietnam crushed its second coronavirus wave

After successfully containing its first outbreak in March and April, Vietnam can now take pride in defeating the coronavirus twice

www.telegraph.co.uk

President Trump revealed early Friday morning that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. While the world reacted to Trump testing positive for COVID-19 with shock, sympathy and criticism, the oracle of UMBRELLA-SHAPED MOUNTAIN casted hexagram 24 showing that Donald Trump will be re-elected president in 2020.

 

[Trojina]

24 could show a number of things

1. He returns to health
2. He returns to Source, he dies
3. the answer tells you to go back to your own affairs

No special reason to think 24uc means he will return as president, let's hope not anyway.

Oh but you say you are using a different oracle not Yi so 24 is not the same meaning, so I don't know.

 

[hundred_Viet]

Hexagram 24, Fu (復), to go and return.

President Trump must leave the White House in 2021 to return as president in 2025 ?

If president Trump loses the 2020 election, China will win the trade war in 2021 ?

紅五 means: Red Five. Zicky (易棋) is a board game simulating the China–United States trade war, the competition between Blue Five (U.S) and Red Five (China). 紅五 indicates that China will win the trade war.

@Trojina Vietnamese oracles use an ancient type of Asian divination which King Wen had used before he added his text to the 64 hexagrams.

Vietnamese oracles must understand "the balance of the Force" like Jedi Masters and they have created Board Game of Changes to train their Padawans. In the game, each player controls 9 pieces which represent the numbers from 1 to 9. The pieces 1, 3, 7, 9 represent the Light Side. The pieces 2, 4, 6, 8 represent the Dark Side. Piece 5 represents the Balance. 5 is the result of subtraction 6-1, subtraction 7-2, subtraction 8-3 and subtraction 9-4. The game ends immediately when (1,6,5) or (7,2,5) or (3,8,5) or (9,4,5) form a straight line or half of a cross shape, piece 5 must belong to the loser and one of two remaining pieces must belong to the winner.

 

[hundred_Viet]

24 could show a number of things

1. He returns to health
2. He returns to Source, he dies
3. the answer tells you to go back to your own affairs

No special reason to think 24uc means he will return as president, let's hope not anyway.

Oh but you say you are using a different oracle not Yi so 24 is not the same meaning, so I don't know.

Former President Donald Trump announced that he is running for the 2024 Republican nomination for president, seeking to stage a dramatic return to the White House. And now he is preparing to return to Twitter and Facebook.

光復 means: the return of the light. It indicates that China will become world No 1.

China - the sleeping dragon - awakens and shows his power. But how?
Through swallowing Taiwan?

The oracle of UMBRELLA-SHAPED MOUNTAIN casted:
Six at the top of Hexagram 2.
The winter is too cold.
Dragons are fighting on the sea.
Their blood is splashing thousands of miles.

 

[Trojina]

I don't really see what your point is?

One doesn't need an oracle to tell one Trump tries to get back into power surely?

And you aren't using the I Ching but the 'Umbrella shaped mountain oracle' .....anyway I'm lost, it's an old thread and I don't think I understood the first time around I'm afraid.

 

[Liselle]

I don't either.

 

[hundred_Viet]

If Donald Trump is re-elected in 2024, the Hexagram 24 for him will be right. It's exactly what I mean.

And I just want to provide you a different view of how to use I Ching. Chinese and Vietnamese people use I Ching very flexibly.

 

[Trojina]

I don't agree with you that 24 means Donald Trump will return, it could mean any number of things. But then you aren't using the hexagram 24 in the I Ching as far as I can tell.

 

[rosada]

Oh no! Just when we think we might finally have a clear view of the I Ching a whole new universe appears!!

 

[Liselle]

It seems Hundred is talking about three different topics and mentioning three different hexagrams.

Topics:

• Trump in 2024
• China's place in the world
• China-Taiwan relations

Hexagrams

• 24
• 23 ("umbrella-shaped mountain," at a guess)
• 2 (and 2.6)

2.6 changes to 23, fine, but I have no idea where 24 comes in.

I don't think this is the I Ching, per se. It might have elements in common, but that doesn't make it the same oracle.

 

[Trojina]

No I think the 'umbrella shaped mountain' is a different Oracle altogether, if you re read the thread I think you'll see.

 

[Liselle]

I see what you mean, yes. I wondered about 23 because 2.6 changes to it and it looks like an umbrella and it's one of the hexagrams that remind one of the mountain trigram - but who knows. Am thoroughly confused.

 

[hundred_Viet]

Oh no! Just when we think we might finally have a clear view of the I Ching a whole new universe appears!!

The I Ching has a long history with at least 3000 years. Many generations have tried to discover the I Ching. But not everyone shares their findings with the community. Instead, they only pass it on to those close to them.

There are many things I can't explain clearly in English. So now we just need to focus on the following points:

• Hexagram 24 - The Return - Trump left the White House in 2021 to return as president in 2025
• Hexagram 2.6 - Dragons fight on the sea - China and Taiwan

Just wait and see the results ! I Ching is so magical !

 

[hundred_Viet]

The oracle of UMBRELLA-SHAPED MOUNTAIN casted:
Six at the top of Hexagram 2.
The winter is too cold.
Dragons are fighting on the sea.
Their blood is splashing thousands of miles.

I want to note that the dragon is a symbol of sovereign power. The world has 5 dragons corresponding to 5 permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

 

[hundred_Viet]

Divining, Playing and Gambling ...

There were always close connections among DIVINATION, GAMES PLAYING and GAMBLING.
And the Changes is not an exception:

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About the lost game of LIUBO:


May you enjoy it,

Charly

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A poem written about 2,200 years ago by a man named Song Yu gives an idea as to what the lost game of Liubo was like:

菎蔽象棊，有六簙些。
分曹並進，遒相迫些。
成梟而牟，呼五白些。

"Then, with bamboo dice and ivory pieces, the game of Liu Bo is begun; sides are taken; they advance together; keenly they threaten each other. Pieces are kinged, and the scoring doubled. Shouts of 'five white!' arise" (translation by David Hawkes).

'Five White' is the centre of two ancient Chinese diagrams - the Hetu (Yellow River Chart) and the Luoshu (Inscription of the River Luo). And Liubo Zicky is a board game based on these two diagrams and the Liubo board.

I’ve built a desktop app of Liubo Zicky for Windows.

To enjoy this app, you must do the following steps:

• Download the file 'LiuboZicky.zip' from Google Drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WvXk48t200kxEFrBXJWjPmj8_JmNs6le/view
• Extract the file 'LiuboZicky.zip'. The password for extracting this ZIP file is LiuboZicky. After extracting 'LiuboZicky.zip', a folder LiuboZicky will appear with two files 'vcredist_x86_2012.exe' and 'vcredist_x86_2013.exe'.
• Double-click on the two files 'vcredist_x86_2012.exe' and 'vcredist_x86_2013.exe' to install Microsoft C and C++ (MSVC) runtime libraries.
• Go to the folder LiuboZicky and double-click on the file 'LiuboZicky.exe' to start the app.

 

[surnevs]

Amongst other things in a diviner's tomb * also dies where found. Have been thinking about if those dies were used, as here, for games or as a matter of fact for divination. In relation to the hexagram, it's striking that a die actually is the spheric form of this... a Regular Hexahedron.

*) Edward L. Shaughnessy, Unearthing the Changes, pg. 26 [pdf extract attached], Columbia University Press, N.Y. 2014