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kyphi

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hello everybody, just like to say what a great resource this site is, i've been consulting the book of changes intermitantly over the years using coins and would really like to experience using the oracle with yarrow stalks. the thing is i'm finding it hard to find a supplier in the uk who sells them.can anyone suggest a uk source? or alternatively suggest another reliable source somewhere else (including delivery time). sorry if my first post here is of such a mundane nature but, first things first. many, many thanks in advance
 

brian

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I used to use bamboo skewers--in the USA you could buy them in the grocery store--they worked fine.

Id also like to say the yarrow method (not the abbreviated one) is a very neat way to consult the I Ching.

Setting one aside for heaven, seperating, dividing, counting, gathering, using both hands and the mind--knowing where your going before you get there, seeing what is coming before it arrives--nothing is unexpected, everything is new.
 

dobro p

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About yarrow stalks: aren't you suppose to fast for three days, and then go out and harvest them from the forest at the time of the new moon?

:)
 

Frankelmick

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Kyphi,

I got a set of yarrow stalks from a shop in Covent Garden.

Cheers,

Mick
 

becca

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Greetings! I am new to this site and have been consulting the I Ching for 15 years now. A question I asked recently was trying to ellicit information regarding the time of a future tumultuous event and I was confused as to the response: Hexagram #19 Approach. The Judgement says "When the eighth month comes, there will be misfortune," but the general description before the judgement says the hexagram is linked with the 12 month (Jan-Feb) and the time of the winter solstice. So is the event I am asking about going to happen in the eighth month (August)or in Jan/Feb? I am using the Wilhelm/Baynes edition. Any help on this reading would be greatly appreciated.
 

emma

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Hi all. I'm new to the site.

Kyphi- One website seems pretty good for yarrow stalks http://www.eheart.com/yarrow/

Becca- It can be difficult to pin the I Ching down on timing. The eighth month isn't our eighth month, it would be the eighth month on a lunar calendar.
My understanding of this hexagram is that by "overseeing" (approaching, managing, caring for) others, one can't go wrong. The misfortune that the eighth month brings is the natural waning of yang and the waxing of yin. So regardless of action (which in this hexagram is all very good, very positive), misfortune is unavoidable but not to be feared because it is part of the natural cycle of yang and yin. I don't know if that helps you or not. What was the potential changing line because that can change the reading?
Emma
 
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eBay is a source for yarrow stalks worth checking out. Look under I Ching.
 

freemanc

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The way to get yarrow stalks, my dears, appears to be to grow them.

Yarrow, or Milfoil, is an herb, (good for staunching wounds, severe colds, astringent, and some other things) that grows like a weed.

I have a packet of Yarrow/Milfoil seeds sitting on top my refrigerator waiting for planting, uh, now-ish, I guess.

Sounds like a swell plant for xeriscape type situations.
 

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Hi all-
Someone should do this, in case folks have been staring at yarrow, or weeding it. It's all over the place here in the Rockies. Flowers can be white, yellow or pink.
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Hi all-
Someone should do this, just in case folks have
been staring at yarrow, or weeding it out.
It's all over the place here in the Rockies.
Flowers can be white, yellow or pinkish.
Plants average maybe 15-18 inches high.
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giraf

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Hi,

I "harvested" my dear yarrows in a very beautiful place - a meadow near a mountain plain just beside a steep water fall with a view over a narrow inland fjord of a deep turkish green colour. Every time I hold them in my hands I can feel their gentle loving stilks. The feeling brings the scent of the flowers and I imagine lying in this meadow almost buried or half insoken into it. What a place for an afternoon meditation with the smell of summer - and imagine lying there under the snowcover in winter -

Giraf
 

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