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philjreeseI'm going live with another #iching #yijing reading at 430 https://www.instagram.com/phillipjreese?igsh=ejY5MmJiM3k3YXky
🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦So here's a bit more of my divination stuff. I should stress that I don't think divination tools have any predictive validity. I am, however, fascinated with them as a way of breaking out of thought ruts; of forcing myself to look at things from a different perspective.
This, again, is based on the 易经 (Yìjīng or I-Ching or Book of Changes or Classic of Changes or ...) divination techniques. Over the history of the Yijing the tools used to divine from it have changed with changes in technology and style from the now-lost original yarrow stalk approach (very slow and meditative), to the coins approach (faster, but still ritualistic), to the new yarrow stalk approach (back to very slow), to bamboo slips (effectively like cards), to tiles, to actual cards, to even dice.
And these are obviously the dice.
There are a pair of eight-sided dice in each set, and a six-sided die. The eight-sided dice have on each face a trigram: the pair together form a hexagram. The role of the six-sided die...
Well here is where the "moving lines" of the Yijing come into play. See the traditional divination forms (yarrow stalks and coins) generate line by line *and* provide for fixed lines and "moving" lines: lines that flip. So when you generate a hexagram, anywhere from 0 to 6 lines will flip, giving you TWO hexagrams to look up and interpret.
Well, the die is a way of generating one of them. The lines, numbered 1-6 from bottom to top, are counted from the six-sided die roll and that line is flipped, *always* giving you a moving line (but only one). So if you're using dice to consult the Yijing, you always have two hexagrams that are mildly different from each other to look up. (This puts them above slips and cards for variety.)
More details, as usual, in the alt text.
(P.S. Stay tuned for a solo RP supplement based on the Yijing. I'm working on that for publication.)
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#易经 #Yijing #I-Ching #BookOfChanges #dice #divination
This, again, is based on the 易经 (Yìjīng or I-Ching or Book of Changes or Classic of Changes or ...) divination techniques. Over the history of the Yijing the tools used to divine from it have changed with changes in technology and style from the now-lost original yarrow stalk approach (very slow and meditative), to the coins approach (faster, but still ritualistic), to the new yarrow stalk approach (back to very slow), to bamboo slips (effectively like cards), to tiles, to actual cards, to even dice.
And these are obviously the dice.
There are a pair of eight-sided dice in each set, and a six-sided die. The eight-sided dice have on each face a trigram: the pair together form a hexagram. The role of the six-sided die...
Well here is where the "moving lines" of the Yijing come into play. See the traditional divination forms (yarrow stalks and coins) generate line by line *and* provide for fixed lines and "moving" lines: lines that flip. So when you generate a hexagram, anywhere from 0 to 6 lines will flip, giving you TWO hexagrams to look up and interpret.
Well, the die is a way of generating one of them. The lines, numbered 1-6 from bottom to top, are counted from the six-sided die roll and that line is flipped, *always* giving you a moving line (but only one). So if you're using dice to consult the Yijing, you always have two hexagrams that are mildly different from each other to look up. (This puts them above slips and cards for variety.)
More details, as usual, in the alt text.
(P.S. Stay tuned for a solo RP supplement based on the Yijing. I'm working on that for publication.)
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#易经 #Yijing #I-Ching #BookOfChanges #dice #divination
So I've grown weary of Wuhan's weather mocking me with sunny weeks but gloomy weekends that prevent me from taking good photos of tea. Today I'm going to instead offer pictures of divination systems, containing two major schools of divination: 求签筒 (qiú qiān tǒng or "fortune-seeking cylinder", sometimes called "casting lots') and the venerable 易经 (Yìjīng or "Book of Changes", a.k.a. I-Ching).
The 签筒 are typically bamboo cups with 100 inscribed bamboo slips with a number. You shake the cup until one slip falls out, that slip being your fortune. The number is a key to a fortune, read like astrology readings (i.e. vague and nigh-universal in application) which you can read yourself or get a priest to interpret. These can be found in Buddhist and Daoist temples (the latter often having 64 slips instead to index into the 易经 instead). The slips also have one of four general, overall ratings on them: 上上签，上签，中签，下签 meaning very good, good, average, or bad fortune respectively for a quick consultation. This will become important as you will see in the alt text.
The second part contains little metal imprints of the 易经, the third containing 易经 cards, the fourth containing photos of 易经 dice and coins. All of the 易经 materials are placed alongside extra printed material for full impact.
The 易经 is taken very seriously in China; it is the oldest systematic work of philosophy (albeit an unusually opaque one since the oral culture that spawned it and informed it is long lost and can only be pieced together in snippets). It is within its pages and system of hexagrams that you can find the roots of Daoism, of Confucianism, and also a deep influence on Chinese (and sinosphere in general) Buddhism. Which is why there are so many ways it is used (of which today's photo-essay is a small sampling!).
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Details in alt text, as usual, and Mastodon users will have to click through to see all photos.
#求签筒 #易经 #CastingLots #Yijing #IChing #ChineseCulture
@[email protected]
The 签筒 are typically bamboo cups with 100 inscribed bamboo slips with a number. You shake the cup until one slip falls out, that slip being your fortune. The number is a key to a fortune, read like astrology readings (i.e. vague and nigh-universal in application) which you can read yourself or get a priest to interpret. These can be found in Buddhist and Daoist temples (the latter often having 64 slips instead to index into the 易经 instead). The slips also have one of four general, overall ratings on them: 上上签，上签，中签，下签 meaning very good, good, average, or bad fortune respectively for a quick consultation. This will become important as you will see in the alt text.
The second part contains little metal imprints of the 易经, the third containing 易经 cards, the fourth containing photos of 易经 dice and coins. All of the 易经 materials are placed alongside extra printed material for full impact.
The 易经 is taken very seriously in China; it is the oldest systematic work of philosophy (albeit an unusually opaque one since the oral culture that spawned it and informed it is long lost and can only be pieced together in snippets). It is within its pages and system of hexagrams that you can find the roots of Daoism, of Confucianism, and also a deep influence on Chinese (and sinosphere in general) Buddhism. Which is why there are so many ways it is used (of which today's photo-essay is a small sampling!).
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Details in alt text, as usual, and Mastodon users will have to click through to see all photos.
#求签筒 #易经 #CastingLots #Yijing #IChing #ChineseCulture
@[email protected]
grantimatterHarmen Mesker on #Yijing and #translation, and the ways that interpreting language can twist and turn around on you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddx-XX1iYpQ
(This is basically applied #hermeneutics, if you're into the big words. Or a window onto the mystery of words, if you prefer.)
The Difficulties of the Yijing, or: The Quick Gathering of Hairpins
vintage screwlisp account#ZhenHouseZhenBonkwave #bonkwave #notBonkwave #music from @fstateaudio (disc 1, 2, void conspiracy mixes, latest noise therapy)
https://archives.anonradio.net/202405241400_screwtape.mp3 #archived
a lifestyle show set in #lambdaMOO https://lambda.moo.mud.org/
UNK translates english #yiJing in moo back to #Chinese and explains some fortune telling
- I talk about wieqi / go because I'm a #weiqi nerd
Relating lisp game jam games to the #moo
https://bonkwave.org/music
https://diode.zone/c/fstateaudio/videos
Author-ized L.J.I #amReading a book about the #Yijing and middle age (오십에 읽는 주역 Reading the Juyeok* at Fifty), and maybe it’s weird for an atheist but I strongly resonate with the idea that people have purposes or callings to fulfill, and working toward them is how they find peace in life and participate in the work of creation. Specifically, in my case I have a strong sense that my creative writing is my purpose, my contribution. Nothing in my life felt right until I started making a dedicated push toward my creative writing, and I failed at every attempt to avoid this path. It feels deeper even than desire, as though my desire were a lodestone pulled inexorably in its cardinal direction. Looking back, every step from my failed careers to all those years I spent a lonely misfit, seems to have led me here—which is not a physical fact but rather a narrative and spiritual truth, and for me the two are one and the same. You might really call writing my religion lol. #WritingCommunity
* “Juyeok” means the “Yijing from the Kingdom of Zhou,” which in Sino-Korean is the “Yeokgyeong from the Kingdom of Ju.” It’s not a term I particularly agree with, since the Yijing does not belong to any one age and its origins are older than Zhou, but it is a popular term for the Yijing in Korea. Others may be more familiar with the romanization “I Ching” than “Yijing.”
nathanlovestrees"I sense a calmness writing this work, as if I can get it done simply by sitting down to do it. That suits me." - Joel Biroco, _Sublime Light_.
hecksAh cool! I've been looking for a copy of Nigel Richmond's The Language of the Lines ever since I came across it in the Yi Jing iOS app (where it's bundled with other digital books). It's been out of print since the 70s and remains one of the most approachable sources on the Yi Jing that I could find (I've studied the Yi Jing for many years, but I won't speak to whether the book is wholly accurate or not).
It turns out that Joel Biroco has a biography on Nigel Richmond and includes his two out of print books! (Don't tell Amazon who sells a Kindle version)
Yijing Dao - Nigel Richmond and the I Ching
Yijing Dao - Calling Crane in the Shade: A website dedicated to reviews of books on the Yijing or I Ching, the ancient Chinese oracle known as the Book of Changes, but also containing a complete 'Introduction to Yijing' for beginners, an accurate transcription of the 1935 Harvard-Yenching Zhouyi, animations of hexagram sequences, articles, and scans of Chinese diagrams.