The Return of Magic Monday
Feb. 25th, 2024 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
Yes, Magic Monday is on again. I appreciate deeply all the kind words, thoughts, and prayers sent my way in response to the recent passing of my wife Sara. I know that a lot of people respond to grief by taking time off, but that's not at all what I need or want just now. I've been through a long, lonely, stressful time during which I had nothing to do but provide a dying woman with the care she needed and would accept, which wasn't much, while we both waited for the inevitable to happen. What I need now to start the journey back to balance is conversation, interaction, and useful work to do.So...
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I Ching and the Golden Section Fellowship
Date: 2024-02-26 01:10 pm (UTC)At the beginning of this year I have decided to take up a new divination method, in this case the I Ching. I need to get into the head space of some people I am writing about who also used the I Ching for their spiritual and creative work. Plus I want to get another system under my built as I work up towards eight (I'd say dreams, bibliomancy, tarot, the Sacred Geometry Oracle, and a smattering of Lenormand are the other ones I've learned so far --I'll want to go back to Lenormand more deeply in time.)
While I am learning it, I am still using the Sacred Geometry Oracle if I have a question I need a definitive answer to, because I have come to trust it's reliable advice. For that I use the three card method laid out in the Way of the Golden Section.
While learning such a complex system as the I Ching however, I have been doing a coin toss method, and it seems like it is best to do just one hexagram for my daily reading. It seems to be working fine, but I know you suggest drawing three of whatever system a person chooses to work with while doing the GSF work. While doing the I Ching however, when I get changing lines from the coin tosses, I will also quite often have a second hexagram to look at and interpret, and then the different lines that changed pointing too within the second hexagram. I did cast three hexagrams, but with all the changing lines etc, I felt it was too much to think about, and overwhelming, so I am going for a single hexagram with whatever it changes into and those lines to look at for daily readings - this provides a considerable amount of info already.
Do you have any thoughts about this modification to my divination practice? I do feel pretty comfortable with three card divination, as I used that as a basic past, present, future spread with Tarot for years before I started the GSF work.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Justin Patrick Moore
Re: I Ching and the Golden Section Fellowship
Date: 2024-02-26 04:07 pm (UTC)Re: I Ching and the Golden Section Fellowship
Date: 2024-02-26 04:17 pm (UTC)In the past I cut corners in my work, or tried things my own way. These days I'm trying my best to follow your suggestion of doing the work in the occult books I train with exactly as it is written, hence the question.
I can imagine casting three daily horoscopes in a morning might get a bit on the OCD side of things!
Justin
Re: I Ching and the Golden Section Fellowship
Date: 2024-02-26 08:59 pm (UTC)https://www.yijing.nl/index.html has some history about the earlier meanings of the hexagrams, and idiosyncratic desriptions of what they might mean.
https://psychicscience.org/ching3 can generate a reading with either coin or yarrow stalk probabilities, with a choice of translations.
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