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Frankelmick

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Hilary and everyone,

I was asked to do Tarot and I Ching readings at a corporate party today. I was one of a group of readers - crystal ball, palm readings etc.

They gave us a maximum of 5 minutes per reading so I built this I Ching kit using an idea I found in Alfred Huang's "Complete I Ching".

I got 8 different coloured stones from my local pound shop and a small draw-string bag. I assigned each stone to a trigram.

Put all the stones in the bag and draw one for the lower trigram. Put the stone back and draw again for the upper trigram. Then roll a dice for the one changing line.

It worked really well. The readings are quick and easy and having just one changing line simplifies things.

Just thought I'd pass that on really. Anyone else tried something similar?

Best wishes,

Mick
 

peter

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Mick,

I use a method similar to yours, but I roll 3 dice: 2 8-sided (octahedral) and 1 6-sided (cubical).
 

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Well, there is the 6 coin method in {The I Ching Made Easy}: 5 coins identical, one different; cast them all together and push them into a column; the different coin represents your one moving line.

How can you give a reading in 5 minutes, though? What do you actually pick out to share from the whole picture, and how (on earth) do you decide what that should be?
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Hi Hilary,

When I do readings on fairs I at maximum need 15 minutes, of which 10 minutes are occupied by the talking of the client. Interpreting a hexagram can be done 'fairly'
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quickly when you look at the trigrams and (moving) lines: they give essential information, tell what the situation is like and what you can do. Moving lines can tell on what level(s) progress is blocked. The main advantage of working with the hexagram image is that it contains a limited set of material you can work with, making it possible to keep the reading short and focussed on the important matters. Besides that, clients often find it amazing what you can tell from such a simple figure.

Best wishes,

Harmen.
 

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The six coin method is still in use today by street corner diviners. It is well established / traditional.

I have a friend who has just returned from a tour in China. I remember there was a thread about whether or not the Yijing was permitted there.

He reported that there were copies in even small, small town bookshops and big bookshops had as many as 40 different versions. All of the Airports had copies on sale too.

Some versions were extensive with many numeric diagrams.

--K
 

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Maybe some of the I Ching cards available would provide a good way of doing quick readings? An image can convey more, faster, than words... then you could roll your dice for a line. We have a thread about them.

What Harmen says convinces me more than ever that the Image (Daxiang) is practically a parallel oracle in its own right.
 

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