oracle practice · 6 minute lesson
Let an observation become a figure
Explore how observed numbers or the current moment become trigrams, a moving line, and a reading about their relationship.
Try the tool →Three small steps
Choose how to begin
Select the observed-number or moment path. Add a question if you wish. For observed numbers, enter counts from things you noticed rather than hunting for a favorable result.
Watch the branch unfold
Press Let the branch bloom. Read the Body and Function trigrams and the relationship displayed between them. Notice how that relationship frames the matter you brought.
Follow the explanation
Read the main figure and open How this branch was read. Find the upper and lower trigrams and the moving line. Compare the explanation with the picture before casting again.
Words to recognize
- Trigram
- A three-line figure used here as one half of the hexagram.
- Body and Function
- The two roles the tool gives the trigrams when explaining their relationship.
- Moving line
- The selected position through which the figure changes.
try what you learned
Where can you see which trigrams and moving line produced the explanation?
Take it into practice
- What ordinary thing supplied one of your numbers?
- How does the Body–Function relationship describe a tension you recognize?
Art, sources & approach
This is the site's interactive Plum Blossom adaptation. The moment path uses a simplified calendar treatment, not a complete historical calendar reconstruction.
Lesson diagrams and interface illustrations: Brews and Bloom. Diagrams simplify the idea being taught; they are not historical artifacts.
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