Yarrow Stick Method

[Bum Grasshopper]

Can someone describe the procedure? When I do it , I get an overabundance of 7's.

 

The method I was using counts out the sticks in the traditional fashion, but you get the result by counting the piles of 4 in front of you, which should be 6,7,8 or 9.

 

The methods I have researched such as this counts the sticks remaining after counting the piles of 4.

 

Are they both correct?

Edited September 10, 2009 by Bum Grasshopper

[Bum Grasshopper]

And another method!!

[~jK~]

Can someone describe the procedure? When I do it , I get an overabundance of 7's.

 

The method I was using counts out the sticks in the traditional fashion, but you get the result by counting the piles of 4 in front of you, which should be 6,7,8 or 9.

 

The methods I have researched such as this counts the sticks remaining after counting the piles of 4.

 

Are they both correct?

 

 

You Be Lost !

 

The I Ching in Chinese (Cantonese dialect) is "Ba Gua"

Ba = 8

Gua is language

Together it means language of 8's

There is Buddhist I Ching,

Taoist I Ching,

Confucian I Ching

The above 3 are translated by Thomas Cleary.

The King Wen/Duke of Chou I Ching of government.

Each one describes a different subject from 8 opposing perspectives.

To study the I Ching's Phillosophy - if you can find one - get The Pocket I Ching

Based on Wilhelm's translation but simplified by W.S. Boardman - only 130 pages but it keeps the essence.

WoW - Here's one for .01$ http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ching-Richard...n/dp/014019049X

Loose the yarrow sticks... It will free your mind to see the true reality of a great book. I had to give mine away too

Edited September 10, 2009 by ~jK~

[Bum Grasshopper]

Sorry, I am just beginning my adventure into the I- Ching. I find Stephen Karcher's interpretation most understandable. He peels away the Confucianism to reveal the tao.

 

He also addresses the difficulty of translation by writing symbolically instead of linearly.

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