The Plumb Flower Method

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I find the Plumb Flower Method, to be very useful in situations where I don't have the time, or the privacy to pull out my lots and throw them. I espically find it useful, on those nights where I have an unforgettable dream, that wakes me up in the middle of the night. I jot down the time, and in the morning use this method to gain deeper insight into the dream. Here it is, and I hope many of you get alot of mileage out of it.

The plumb flower mind I ching
Hsien tien method
in using the spirit of this method in our present day divinations ,we will divide the western
numeration of the year by the number 12.thus 1,982 divided by 12 gives 165 with a remainder
of 2. We give 1982 the number 2.we derive any years similarly. We always get a remainder of
1 to 11, and if there is no remainder we call this 12. For our month, we count it as the number
it follows in our cycle of the year. For example, October is 10. And for our day, we simply take
the number of the day of the month.
In divination, we use the time we make the divination. But with careful thought we may use
a time that marks the beginning of a subject. We might use the date of our birth, and derive a
hexagram that characterizes our life as a whole. We might take the time we signed the papers
for our new house and divine the future surrounding it.
For a specific example of the hsien tien method we will consider a date, say April 19th, 1982,
at 10:20 a.m.
The year 1982 -----2
The month April ---4
The 19th day -------19
Total 25
Divided by 8= 3 with remainder 1
1 equals ____
____ Ch?ien, the outer trigram
____

The year 1982 ----- 2
The month April ----4
The 19th day --------19
The 10th hour -------10
Total 35
Divided by 8= 4 with remainder 3
3 equals ____
_ _ Li, the inner trigram
____
The year, month, day, hour is 35
Divided by 6 is 5 with remainder 5
The moving line is the fifth line.

I hope this helps at least one person here.