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Lets try to look at some Liu Yao resources in English. While the system is slowly making its way to the west, its still in very, very early steps, so resources are few. However, even so, some of them are really good.
1. Jack Chiu "Secrets of Wen Wang Gua" book.
http://www.acmc.com.hk/Book011.aspx
For me this is probably the best book I have seen on the topic. It could be challenging for people not familiar with the Five Arts, however it has very detailed rules that for me seem to work very well(with few exceptions, but that is still much, much more then most of the other info).
2.The Clear-Cut I Ching or Wen Wang Gua for Beginners: Volume One - Master S.R.Chang
https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Cut-Ching-Wen-Wang-Beginners-ebook/dp/B008RH0LM0/
I liked the history part here, as I was wondering more about Fangs story and why it ended like that. Here there is more then enough info to get an idea about why.
3.Raymond Lo's I Ching Books.
http://www.raymond-lo.com/14524/books
While I haven't fully read any of them I started one in Russian. My Russian is really, really bad(and that is probably understatement), so it would be unfair to comment on it in depth. However, from what I have seen the rules seem similar to what I'm familiar with.
Although some nicer examples would have been appreciated, dying miners and murders all around there make it somewhat too grim.
4.I Ching - Wisdom Revealed (Book of Changes) by Vincent Koh
https://www.amazon.com/Ching-Revealed-Changes-Academic-interpretation/dp/9812295968/
I like Kohs approach in his Feng Shui book and in his BaZi book he had some tables that I haven't seen in other books, like Month Commander for example. This I Ching book I haven't read, have seen a few times people to mention about it that its very good for people that are just starting with the system.
Moving on from books, there are a few correspondence courses out there.
Another very interesting source is Alex Chiu's Super I Ching site.
http://superiching.com/
A problem there is that he is using his own naming ways for the branches/stems, so at start may seem like its a whole another thing. It isn't really, just the names are different.
However, when it comes to rules, I have problems with some rules there, especially around Void.
Joseph Yus WWG Course.
I did like some of the info there, good to mention that he is basing the relations(Officer/Sibling etc.) of the second Hexagram to the element/house of the second Hexagram.
So far all mentioned before are basing it on first one, potentially giving very different lines to read.
Clarity,
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