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I agree with Mick, and the unknown guy. But I don't like the difference between 1 old yin and 3 old yang, so stick to coins. And I get better answers with coins, but maybe only because I am too lazy for all those sticks. I get even better answers with the SanShan software, which happens to have yarrow probabilities...
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But the big difference is that with coins there's equal chance of getting a moving Yang line (1/8) or a moving Yin line (1/8) whereas with the stalks there's less chance of getting a Yin line changing to Yang (1/16) than there is of getting a Yang line changing to Yin (3/16).
I've never read Hacker, how should I vote?
maybe only because I am too lazy for all those sticks. I get even better answers with the SanShan software, which happens to have yarrow probabilities...
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If you chose the second one, how can you say wich probability aproach is accurater if you dont know the laws or paterns expressed by that aproach? And if you knows that paterns, how can you think that one method is accurater than the other?
I've always seen and feel that the use of coins is, in some way, trivializing the use of the Yi, regardless of antiquity. A very personal take, of course, and said with sincere respect for the methods used by others. My opinion of "software" for consulting the Yi, regardless of odds used (i.e. yarrow vs coins) is bleak.
What is most likely not correct though is the assumption that in the Early Zhou and Zhouyi there was a Yin-Yang dyad as we understand it.
So the idea that stalk probabilities were made to respond to the properties
of Yin and Yang just doesn't make sense to me.
Hi Jesed
It’s an interesting one, asking the Yi about different books or approaches. I expect we would all get different answers depending on who we are and what sort of access to the Yi might help us most at a given time.
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Yes it is an interesting question to put the Yi, I never thought of asking that before. Seems especially a good idea for a beginner.
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