Ever thought what could be done with a pile of broken and unbroken sticks? Some people may think of them as just 'sticks' but according to the book of changes, the Zhou sure made good use of them.
For years trigrams have been used to predict future, fortune telling, and tell many things that represents people. How does this system works? All trigrams are really made of is sticks. These sticks are usually made from stems of yarrow plant. Many of the sticks are perfectly unbroken great conditioned sticks, other are broken right in half.
But the most important aspect of this system is Yin and Yang. The meaning of Yin and Yang according to Pangu is that everything Yin, would be cool and dark, and everything Yang would be warm and Bright. It may be though that this complicated system may have nothing to do with broken and unbroken sticks, but don't be fooled, because eventually everything goes together. Just like in life both Yin and Yang have separate meanings, it is the same in the process of the trigrams. The Yin stand for the sticks, or lines. And of course the broken sticks would stand for Yang. These lines arranged in groups of three and there were eight possible combinations of trigrams.And whenever there was two trigrams, they formed a hexagram, and there are 64 possible hexagrams.
Now is when the real fortune telling comes in. When a question is asked to the divine, he or she would randomly pick up long and short sticks and place then into groups of trigrams. This process is extremely complicated and this is just a simple explanation of how the system works, but they' re is really alot more to this complex process.
Despite the the complexity of the trigrams, they are currently very popular. Many emperors have used this system to see how they re ruling period will go. A good sign for emperors to fidn the Hexogram and trigram is 'water over fire', meaning conquest or success.
For years trigrams have been used to predict future, fortune telling, and tell many things that represents people. How does this system works? All trigrams are really made of is sticks. These sticks are usually made from stems of yarrow plant. Many of the sticks are perfectly unbroken great conditioned sticks, other are broken right in half.
But the most important aspect of this system is Yin and Yang. The meaning of Yin and Yang according to Pangu is that everything Yin, would be cool and dark, and everything Yang would be warm and Bright. It may be though that this complicated system may have nothing to do with broken and unbroken sticks, but don't be fooled, because eventually everything goes together. Just like in life both Yin and Yang have separate meanings, it is the same in the process of the trigrams. The Yin stand for the sticks, or lines. And of course the broken sticks would stand for Yang. These lines arranged in groups of three and there were eight possible combinations of trigrams.And whenever there was two trigrams, they formed a hexagram, and there are 64 possible hexagrams.
Now is when the real fortune telling comes in. When a question is asked to the divine, he or she would randomly pick up long and short sticks and place then into groups of trigrams. This process is extremely complicated and this is just a simple explanation of how the system works, but they' re is really alot more to this complex process.
Despite the the complexity of the trigrams, they are currently very popular. Many emperors have used this system to see how they re ruling period will go. A good sign for emperors to fidn the Hexogram and trigram is 'water over fire', meaning conquest or success.
But now a days things have often changed, that includes the trigram. Now the trigram can mean more than just predictions for the future. Trigrams can represent many other things such as a persons characteristics. Body part, time, number, element,planet, color, direction and animals. These symbols and meanings can and have changed people in many ways, and only keeps getting more and more popular. Which is why as long as this 'pile of sticks' keeps doing its job, the trigram will be around for a long long time, bringing fortunate telling to a whole new level.
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