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So what is Liu Yao六爻.
First have to clarify that Wen Wang Gua文王卦 is just another name for Liu Yao. While the name doesn't help much(Trigrams/Hexagrams of King Wen) if we look at Liu Yao(Six Lines) there is some info we can work with.
It gives the idea we will work with the lines by themselves and their relation to each other, as it does in practice.
Liu Yao is maybe the most popular form of professional divination in China today. To such degree that even today some courses for it won't be called "Liu Yao" or "WWG", but will only be called "I Ching: Professional Divination".
The problem with learning that is that its very strongly related to the Stems and Branches from the Chinese Solar Calendar. And in the west that is somewhat known, but to a very lesser degree that one would need to read the lines.
So how it works. We make a Hexagram in a convenient way for us and as people doing this profesionally would often confirm we can do that in any way as long as its random and follows the idea behind it all(yin and yang etc.).
Once that is done we write annotations on the Lines, they are made by the relation of the element of the line to the element of the Hexagram. And then we find the lines that interest us and see what happens with them.
For that Images are used. For example if we ask for something related to our house we will look at Line called "Resource", that would be a line with the element that produces the element of the Hexagram.
If we ask for a girlfriend we will look at Line called Asset/Wealth(that would be line that is controled by the element of the Hexagram) and overall each line becomes specific relation that has images in it.
We follow the Images and we read the situation.
The styles in the Five Arts are interrelated in each other. They flow one to another and using one without the others would be like using a specific line without the whole Hexagram.
In that sense we can see a weak line for our house in Liu Yao and then see that same element in a problematic spot in our house in Feng Shui. And many other stuff.
So lets move to the resources. : )
In English there aren't many outside of the forums. And the forums I can currently recommend are this:
fivearts.org
We have translations from wild crane cases(more then 30 by now), many topics with readings from people asking about situations and many other stuff. Very good source, currently.
There are books.
For that I will copy/paste something I made for Jlims forums here:
fivearts.org
There is a very good upcoming book that I think will help a lot for people to have somewhat easier time to work with the system. We are making free calculator for it as well. Until then, what is mention is more or less it, I would recommend to look at the forums, we have some awesome examples of cases we read through the years as well, may be challenging to dig into, but the system is worth it for people interested in it. : )
I think that covers it, if something seems good idea to add will post here. : )
First have to clarify that Wen Wang Gua文王卦 is just another name for Liu Yao. While the name doesn't help much(Trigrams/Hexagrams of King Wen) if we look at Liu Yao(Six Lines) there is some info we can work with.
It gives the idea we will work with the lines by themselves and their relation to each other, as it does in practice.
Liu Yao is maybe the most popular form of professional divination in China today. To such degree that even today some courses for it won't be called "Liu Yao" or "WWG", but will only be called "I Ching: Professional Divination".
The problem with learning that is that its very strongly related to the Stems and Branches from the Chinese Solar Calendar. And in the west that is somewhat known, but to a very lesser degree that one would need to read the lines.
So how it works. We make a Hexagram in a convenient way for us and as people doing this profesionally would often confirm we can do that in any way as long as its random and follows the idea behind it all(yin and yang etc.).
Once that is done we write annotations on the Lines, they are made by the relation of the element of the line to the element of the Hexagram. And then we find the lines that interest us and see what happens with them.
For that Images are used. For example if we ask for something related to our house we will look at Line called "Resource", that would be a line with the element that produces the element of the Hexagram.
If we ask for a girlfriend we will look at Line called Asset/Wealth(that would be line that is controled by the element of the Hexagram) and overall each line becomes specific relation that has images in it.
We follow the Images and we read the situation.
The styles in the Five Arts are interrelated in each other. They flow one to another and using one without the others would be like using a specific line without the whole Hexagram.
In that sense we can see a weak line for our house in Liu Yao and then see that same element in a problematic spot in our house in Feng Shui. And many other stuff.
So lets move to the resources. : )
In English there aren't many outside of the forums. And the forums I can currently recommend are this:
Five Arts Forum - Fivearts.org - Index
Metaphysics at its best - Bazi life reading, Liu Yao divination, and Tarot cards
fivearts.org
We have translations from wild crane cases(more then 30 by now), many topics with readings from people asking about situations and many other stuff. Very good source, currently.
There are books.
For that I will copy/paste something I made for Jlims forums here:
Five Arts Forum - Liu Yao/Wen Wang Gua Resources in non-Chinese languages
Metaphysics at its best - Bazi life reading, Liu Yao divination, and Tarot cards
fivearts.org
There is a very good upcoming book that I think will help a lot for people to have somewhat easier time to work with the system. We are making free calculator for it as well. Until then, what is mention is more or less it, I would recommend to look at the forums, we have some awesome examples of cases we read through the years as well, may be challenging to dig into, but the system is worth it for people interested in it. : )
I think that covers it, if something seems good idea to add will post here. : )
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