Advanced example 3: this case comes from a Chinese website. in 1999, an I Ching friend of mine went to a poor village in the mountain area. When he came back to Taiyuan in the summer, he showed me a hexagram. The question was is the lamb meat edible? Month: e, Day: cn-VII, Empty: s & yo Hide - 33 Stop - 12 P sh - P sh - gry B s - U B s - yel R w - R w - red B s O G m - - grn G y R w - - J R e - - blk K t P cn - - P wa - - wht 6 Match Why would someone ask this question? There are 2 possibillties: the meat is a little spoiled or the person has a digestion problem or allergy and wondering if eating lamb can make him sick. However we can't jsut make blind guesses, so lets look at the hexagram to find clues. First, we must pick the appointed. lamb meat is food and food in I Ching divination is represnted by the G star, so the G y is the appointed. G y is hiding on line 2. It's prducing the slef line and not harming it in anyway, therefore we can conclude the meat is edible. However, in the hexagram B s is moving and turning into G m. whenever there is movment there must be a reason for it, so I concluded the meat must came unexpectely. The reason is B truning into G star represnt unexpected gain. G y is hiding under R w. y dies in w therefore I concluded the meat came from an already dead lamb. Gy is killed by Bs, on Black line and y is the Sick growth cycle under e month, this meat is problematic, must be somewhat spoiled beacuse Black can represnt rotting. Hex 33 is Hide, the appointed is hidinng, even the helpwer star is hiding the lamb must be laying dead in place that's difficult to see. K t is the helper star, K also reprsent farm animlas, so K must reprsent the lamb. K t is in the Birth grwoth cycle under s, B s produces t, producing means nourishmant. B s is also Green, Green color represnts food and drinks. Combined together we can conclude B s is the food that the lamb was eating. However K t is very weak and B s turns into G y's death (y is in Death grwoth cycle under m) this means the cause of the lamb's death was the food it was eating. Day cn us causing a hiiden movement of Psh on line 6, which kills K t. Psh is on Snake line (means Grey color) Snake represents in-*test*-('")ines so the lamb's death probably has something to do with its in-*test*-('")ines. K t is hiding under Pcn, cn is a dam or a pond (since Water is buried under cn, cn is the storage place of Water) P cn disappears under month e, the water in the pond is almost dried up. P cn is White and in Gen trigram. White represents road, Gen represents mountain. Combine everything from above we can deduct that at a mountain road near an almost dried up pond, the person found a dead lamb that was killed by eating something bad. The lamb is edible although it's a little rotten at places. After I told my friend my conclusion he said my analysis was basically accurate, except a slight mistake on where the lamb was found. The lamb was discovered by a dried up well near a mountain road. Suddenely remebering the ancients saying line 1 represents wells, I was both amazed at the accuracy of I Ching and a little chagrined that I didn't see this. What happened was at the village, my friend was chatting with a couple villagers. One guy mentioned that a certain family owened a lamb. When they took it out to graze, it was just fine. By the time they returned to retrieve the lamb, it was laying on the ground. Beacuse they didn't know what caused the death they were nervous and threw the carcass away even though the poor people can't afford to eat lamb meat moe than once or twice a year. The guy also knew where the carcass was throwon. By than the lamb was died for 3 days. When I ching divination showed that the meat was edible, poeple retrieved the carcass cut the rotton parts away and ate it. My friend 's divination helped to improved villagers life a little bit. Each line in hex can represent different things depend on the subject of the question. The well thing was first mentioned by an anciant I Ching master called Devil Vally. He said for divination about homes, line 1 = Well, line 2 = stove, line 3 = bed, line 4 = restrooms , line 5 = people, line 6 = walls.

Can you give me the 12 stage cycle? for the examples?

Birth (1), Bath (2), Youth (3), Adulthood (4), Prime (5), Decline (6), Ill (7), Death 8 ), Buried (9), Void (10), Seed or Embryo (11), Pregnancy(12).

The 12 stage cycles for each element...

Sorry but i don't understand . do you mean what is stage 1 for each element. like Water is born at s (1) etc. Wood is born at h (1) etc. Fire is born at y (1) etc. Metal is burn at e (1) etc. ???

yes I needed this.

Hao Jiang posted this in Practice Questions.. a man and his brother wants to know if IChing really works. The man casts a hexagram to ask if his son is safe fa away in the country of Shu. Month: s, Day: c-X, Empty: y & m Break - 41 R y - U G t - - B sh - - K s B c - - J R m - P e - The reader says, the appointed Ks is buried under bearer c and day c. maybe the son is in big trouble out there. The man says he just got a letter from his son saying he plans to return home during the month of yo. From the first hex , the reader couldn't tell when he will return. The man's brother tosses this time , asking again if the son is safe. Month: s, Day: c-X, Empty: y & m No Way - 25 Feed - 27 G sh - B y - R s O P t - - K w O J G sh - - G cn - - G cn - - B y - - B y - - P t - U P t - 6 Strike Unstable This time an uncle ask about his niece, so the appointed is still K. Kw moves into it's own grave. The helper star By is empty and stroked loose by the month, therefore it can't help K w. Also the hostile star Rs moves on line 5 and turns into P t which helps to kill Kw. The reader says, by looking at both signs the son is in big trouble. Later the man found out his son already died back in month w. When the son was crossing the Yangtze River, his boat sank and he drowned. Line 5 represents road. That's why his son died on the road to somewhere. Also I heard in 4 Pillars astrology , metal producing water water could mean river.

In April 95 a friend who works in the goverment called me. He said, "last night around 10 pm' I had too much to drink in a Shengzheng hotel . My mind was foggy and when I got home I realized I can't find my briefcase anymore. Inside there are many improtant contracts, documents, ID's, especially my military job transfar document. I don't care about the money just want to know if i can get my documents back." Year: h, Month: cn, Day: wa-X, Empty: s & yo Finish - 60 Fog - 3 B t - - B t - - wht R sh - R sh - gry P s - - U P s - - yel R c - - R cn - - red K m O K y - - grn G e - J B t - blk 6 Match Beacuse he said he doesn't care about the money, only the documents, the appointed is Ps. R represents thieves. there are 2 R lines. Day wa strikes R c causing it to move and progressing, therefore he didn't forget the briefcase, someone stole it. Because there are 2 R lines, one a yang line and one a ying line, it means two poeple stole it, one male and one female . Line 2 K m is moving and killing the R lines. This means someone saw the crime being committed. so there are leads to be found. Too bad K m is retearting, while R c is progressing. This is unfavorable. For lost item questions, If the appointed is in the inner trigram, the lost item is nearby or at home. If the appointed is in the outer trigram, the lost item is far away. The appointed P s is in the outer trigram. This means the thieves already moved the briefcase to a far away place. The worst part is that the P s is empty, meaning it's difficult to find. The owner of teh briefcase is a person of high position in the society. He started an extensive investigation. He did find some leads, but still haven't found teh briefcase.