I ching sticks5/3/2023 ![]() Throwing the Sticks and reading the text was offering me insights as to the potential of the moment, and from that point of insight the changing that can occur. ![]() I practiced throwing the sticks almost every day for a year after that encounter, until I realized that it was a pathway into my deepest archives. Staring at them with a somewhat blank look when I finished reading my outcome they asked, “Do you have any questions?” I thought, SURE DO… What just happened but replied, “No.” Somehow, I figured that with practice, over time, I would understand. They explained and helped me convert the numbers into lines which corresponded to chapters in the book. It took about a half-hour to complete the repetitive process of separating, counting, laying down the sticks in specific order, over and over before it was completed. First, I had to breath and center inward before beginning. Trusting that all would be revealed in the end, I complied. “Sit,” I was told, and they gave me precise instructions on what to do to get a “reading”. Before I began my study of Tai Chi (1968), four sisters took me into a room, handed me some foraged sticks and the Book of Changes (I-Ching). The probability of getting a changing yin line is much smaller than with the coins, because there is only a one in four chance of getting a 9 on your first division, whereas with the coins it is always 50-50.Throwing the sticks… not literally, is the process of meditatively using “Yarrow Stalks” to dive deep into the sub-conscious of cause and effect and emerge with a morsel, a pearl of wisdom. There are two major differences between the coin and the yarrow stalk methods:īy taking longer you have a chance to become quietly focused on your question and more receptive to what the oracle will mirror to you. While it may feel awkward at first to use the yarrow stalks, with practice it becomes a nice "hand-dance meditation" The whole process takes about 10-15 minutes - much longer than the six quick tosses of three coins in the coin method. This is the first (bottom) of the six lines in your hexagram - remember it or write it down.ġ0 - Pick up all the stalks except the single one from step #1, then repeat steps 2 through 9 five more times. Two are big and one is small - This is an unchanging yang line - solid Two are small and one is big - This is an unchanging yin line - broken There are only four possibilities:Īll are small (4 or 5 stalks) - This is a changing yang line - solid becomes brokenĪll are big (8 or 9 stalks) - This is a changing yin line - broken becomes solid ![]() You will get either 4 or 8 stalks each time (not 5 or 9 as in the first time).Here 4 is small, yang or heads 8 is big, yin or tails.ĩ - Now look at the three piles that are lying across the single stalk. Think of 5 as a small number, equivalent to heads or yang in the coin method, and think of 9 as a large number, equivalent to tails or yin in the coin method.ħ - Lay these 5 or 9 stalks across the one you removed in step #1.Ĩ - Repeat steps 2 through 7 twice more. got fours not threes or fives each time you removed stalks) you now have a total either 5 or 9 sticks in your left hand. When you have 4 or fewer left from the original left pile, tuck them between the 3rd and 4th fingers of your left hand.ĥ - Now put the right-hand pile into your left hand and also count it off by fours until four or fewer sticks remain.Ħ - If you counted correctly (ie. Set down the pile in your right hand.ģ - Talk one stalk from that right-hand pile and place it between the 4th and little fingers of your left hand (while still holding the left pile in your left hand)Ĥ - Count off the left pile by fours, setting the fours in a pile separate from the right-hand pile. This symbolizes the Wu Chi - the unchanging ground of being.Ģ - Divide the remaining stalks into two piles. ![]() 1 - Take a single stalk from the bundle of 50 and lay it crossways in front of you.
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