Divination and fortune telling

What are the similarities and differences between divination and fortune telling? About Divination and Fortune Telling [from chinatarot]

Divination is an occult activity that explores things through supernatural methods. If there is a distinction to be made between fortune-telling and divination, it is that divination is ceremonial or social in nature, usually associated with religion, while fortune-telling is more of a daily activity in the service of the individual. Divination is often challenged by some as mere superstition. Advocates, however, would say that there are many anecdotes that attest to the validity of divination. Divination is a universal cultural phenomenon, and anthropologists have found its presence in religions and cultures from ancient times to the present. However, the Christian Bible states that divination is strictly forbidden by God.

In ancient Chinese, "divination" means yarrow divination, and "divination" means tortoise divination, and both yarrow and tortoise divination are ancient Chinese methods of divination, with tortoise divination having a much longer history, but it has been lost. Both yarrow divination and tortoise divination are ancient Chinese divination methods, of which the history of tortoise divination is even longer, but has been lost, Yinxu oracle bone inscriptions that is the direct archaeological evidence of the existence of tortoise divination; yarrow divination is recorded in the Department of Rhetoric, and the method has been preserved to the present day.

In China, since ancient times, there has been the philosophical idea of the unity of heaven and man, so the rise and fall of personnel can be expressed by natural changes. On the one hand, divination is a kind of mysticism, while on the other hand, it is a practical application of various natural science experiences.

Scientific research has been able to successfully predict some of the things that will happen in the future, such as eclipses, weather forecasts and volcanic eruptions, etc., however, these are not considered to be divination. Strictly speaking, divination presupposes the influence of some supernatural force or fate, whereas scientific prediction comes from a mechanized, emotionless worldview and relies on natural rules of thumb. Thus, by operational definition, all activities that employ methods not considered valid by scientific research to make predictions can be said to be divination.

Beyond the simple explanation of anecdote, there are serious theories of how divination works. One of these theories, which has a scientific basis in empiricism, is based on the subconscious mind. According to this theory, divination is a process of decoding messages from the subconscious mind. The belief that the source of these messages is a supernatural or mystical force is the difference between this theory and the scientific explanation.

Julian Jaynes divides divination into the following categories:

Forecasting and Prediction "The most primitive, the most awkward, but also the most enduring method is the recording of a series of strange events." (1976: 236) Ancient Chinese history has always recorded the course of those oddities, natural variations, and other information upon which ancient Chinese *** organizations relied to predict strategic problems in the distant future. Much of modern science also derives from these "divinations," as Joseph Needham's research suggests.

Drawing lots This can be done with sticks, bones, stones, beans, and so on. Modern board games have evolved from these "divinations".

Augury. This is divination that provides predictions, which can be qualitative (e.g. shape, proximity to something, etc.). Prospecting (divination with a stick) developed from this. Sacrificial animal dissection and anal divination (actually a form of Extispicy) was used in the Etruscan civilization during the ancient Roman period, where monks would test sacrificial meats for freshness.

Liberal divination A form of divination that has no specific method and is actually a derivative of other methods of divination. Revelations come from what the diviner happens to see and hear. Some Christians and some other religions use biblical trigrams for divination where they ask a question, grab a holy book, or for revelation to go to unknown places. Others such as qi reading and new age feng shui, like intuition and Taoist charms .

The most common is still astrology, which is generally divided into Vedic astrology (Jyotish), Western astrology and Chinese astrology, in addition to these three schools, many civilizations have their own astrological methods.

In China, divination can be done in the following ways:

Astrology, which refers to the observation of a person's demeanor, temperament, face, body parts, etc., to predict the fortune or misfortune, and various other matters.

Astrology, astrology in China is mainly to indicate the country and the monarch's fortune, governance or not. In the early days, it was closely linked to astronomy, and later gradually separated

Divination, which refers to the use of tortoise shells, divining herbs and other predictions of certain matters, the use of different methods in different eras, and there have been innovations through the ages, for example, according to the legend of Dongfang Shuo's "Spirit of Chess scripture" is the use of special chess pieces and a special mnemonic to predict.

Astrological destiny, using the birth date, eight characters, geographic location, etc. and natural resemblance to make comparative predictions.

Occupation of dreams, based on the dream, borrowed from nature or other personnel to make analogies, to come up with a ...... >>

Fortune-telling, fortune-telling what is the difference, what do they all mean. Fortune-telling is based on your eight four columns of the five elements assigned to see your life, fortune-telling is divination, are the YiXue

Swordsman love edge 3 newbie village Yu half Xian fortune-telling is what it means? Different trigrams have what is not the same? Qian Gua for the sky (on the upper hexagram)

Qian Gua is the first hexagram of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, is the upper hexagram. It is the heavenly trigram; the emperor's trigram, so it should be ranked first. This hexagram is: the sky is healthy, the gentleman to self-improvement. This is a hexagram to continue to work hard, when your efforts are achieved. Purple and orange martial arts and you are all floating clouds, you have dominated the martial arts! It also shows that the person who gets this trigram is very tired, you have to keep working hard to achieve great success!

(2) Kun Gua for the ground (on the upper hexagram)

Kun Gua is the second hexagram in the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, is on the upper hexagrams, is the ground hexagram. So it should be ranked in the second, the hexagrams of the hexagrams is: the earth is Kun, the gentleman to the virtue of carrying things. The same as the heavenly trigrams, this is also a trigram to continue to work hard. Unlike the dry hexagrams, this hexagram to be a great success to rely on the strength of others. To use their own character to make friends, in the Ziwu road Kun Gua also counted on the smooth.

(3) Dui Gua for Zee (Shang Shang Gua)

Dui Gua is the fifty-eighth of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, which is Shang Shang Gua. Tui is Ze! This is the only trigram in the I Ching that tells of joy, and those who get the Tui Gua get the most out of it with the least amount of effort. It's smooth sailing on whatever path you're on, so congratulations to those who have the Dui Gua! Remember the copy to grab and touch the BOSS Oh!

(4) The departure trigram for fire (in the upper hexagram)

The departure trigram is the I Ching in the 64 hexagrams in the thirtieth hexagram, is in the upper hexagram. This trigram mainly belongs to the dependence, take on the last three hanging trigrams. So away from the trigrams to be a great success, we must depend on the upper three trigrams. People from the trigrams can not be careful, can not be forced! The people from the hexagrams remember, life sometimes must have, life is not the time do not force! Forced to take can only end up with a lose-lose structure, remember to remember!

(5) Zhen Gua for Lei (in the upper hexagram)

Zhen Gua is the I Ching sixty-four hexagrams in the 51st hexagram, is the upper hexagram. This hexagram is a person, not a sound is a sound! Usually nothing out, to be out of good things. Belongs to the black hand of which faction, but the extreme. Black for a long time on the good stuff, what crystal ah, purple Wu ah. If you don't come out, it's already happened! The first thing you need to do is to get out of the house and get out of the house!

(6) Xun Gua for the wind (in the upper hexagram)

Xun Gua is the I Ching sixty-four hexagrams in the fifty-seventh hexagram, is in the upper hexagram. This trigram is a good hand though. But easy to be exploited. Pick and choose, come fast and go fast. It is a semi-fierce hexagram, taking over the upper middle hexagram and the lower middle; lower lower hexagram! That is to say, even if you touch the Purple Martial Xuan Crystal, it is still someone else's. You can't get it! Similarly, I'm also a Xun (XUN; second tone) trigram. I even touch out purple martial arts are basically robbed by others ...... tragedy ah ...... so this trigram people, to small people can not gentleman! Remember the copy to change the distribution oh!

(7) Burgundy hexagrams for the mountains (in the lower hexagrams)

Burgundy hexagrams is the 64th hexagrams in the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, is in the lower hexagrams. This trigrams of friends, not only hand black. And will be black all the way, and easy to meet the villain. Encountered bad, so this trigram is best to pay attention to their own words and deeds. Otherwise, there will be a great evil!

(8) Kan Gua for water (lower hexagram)

Kan Gua is the I Ching sixty hexagrams in the twenty-ninth hexagram, is the lower hexagram. Elephant said: a round of the moon in the water, only see the shadow of the trail, when the fools go down to take the money, touch to touch an empty. Although this hexagram is the lowest hexagram, it is a very bad hexagram. But this is also a turnaround trigram, is the person who is the best of all possible worlds. You have been a tragedy, in a long time after the tragedy will have a small success. Get this trigrams of people best not to touch BOSS even if out of the Purple Wu is also the lowest quality, what do not want to think of the Xuanjing. So get this trigrams friends brother you are unfortunate, if there is no Jukui seal best deleted and come back ......

"Zhou Yi" is used to calculate the trigrams? When it comes to "Zhouyi", the first reaction of many people is to read the trigrams and feng shui. If you go to the street to walk around, we will find that those in the streets and alleys shouting to people fortune-telling people are claiming that they are using the "Zhouyi" to tell other people's fortune. The purpose of saying so is only to make others believe that they are not talking nonsense and trickery, but have a theoretical basis. So far, I guess there are still a lot of people who are still half believing: Is "Zhouyi" really so godly? Is it accurate or not? Of course, some people say, this is completely superstitious, go to fortune-telling is really stupid, two eyes of the people were no eyes of the people (most of the fortune-telling is blind, even if not blind will pretend to be blind) fooled, it is really pathetic! So, what kind of book is "Zhouyi"? Is it used for fortune-telling? If it is used for fortune-telling, can it really be accurate? Speaking of which, many people may shudder - their fate can be "calculated" out! I guess not many people will believe in this view. Ai Zi Hou Shu (艾子后语) once recorded a fortune-telling practitioner who specialized in cheating: the King of Qi liked to read fortunes, and a man claimed to be a divine face, and said that he was a student of Guigu Zi and a teacher of Tang Jiu (唐举). The king of Qi respected him and asked him to tell his fortune. The god said, "Don't be in a hurry, I have to talk for a whole day before I can tell someone's fortune." So he talked with the king of Qi. After talking for a while, someone came to report to the King of Qi that Qin soldiers had surrounded Jimo for three days. The King of Qi's face changed greatly, and the divine minister said, "I see a dark aura between the King's eyebrows, which indicates that there will be a war." After a while, the guards tied up a man and said that this man had stolen many things from the treasury. The Divine Minister again said on the side, "I see that the Great King's chin is blue, and that he will surely break his fortune." The King of Qi was not pleased and said, "All that you have said has already happened, I want to know what will happen in the future." The Divine Minister scrutinized the situation for half a day before saying, "I see that the Great King has a square face and an imposing aura, so he must not be an ordinary person!" The king of Qi was so angry that he killed this divine minister in a fit of rage. It seems that cheating under the guise of fortune-telling will sooner or later reveal the fox's tail. However, is this really the Zhou Yi in our ancient eyes? Is it as simple as simply divining and predicting fate? Definitely not. What seems absurd to us today was taken very seriously by our ancestors. It is said that the ancients had a lot of rules for performing the trigrams, and they had to fast first, eat vegetarian food, and bathe, take a shower, and perform the trigrams respectfully. Eat meat all day long, dirty body, the performance of the hexagrams certainly do not work. Moreover, you can't perform the trigrams when you come across something trivial. For example, you lost a chicken at home today, you can not rely on the interpretation of divination to deduce who stole their chicken. Only when you encounter something big, you can reveal the heavenly secrets. Otherwise, you will meet bad luck. In Han Fei Zi (韩非子), there is a story about King Wen of Zhou giving Fei Zhong (费仲), a treacherous minister of the Shang Dynasty, a fortune telling session and being in trouble. Fei Zhong was a treacherous minister beside King Zhou, who did nothing but bad things. At that time, King Wen of Zhou was in Chaoge, and once he drank a little too much with Fei Zhong. Fei Zhong knew that King Wen was able to perform trigrams, so he asked King Wen to calculate his fate. King Wen was reluctant at first, but could not resist Fei Zhong's repeated requests, not to mention that Fei Zhong was a popular person beside King Zhou at that time, and could not be offended. He could not afford to offend Fei Zhong. So King Wen performed a fortune telling for Fei Zhong. Fei Zhong couldn't wait to ask King Wen how the result was, King Wen was speechless for a moment, locking his eyebrows, but he didn't know how to answer. Fei Zhong was anxious and asked again and again. Wen Wang said: "This is very strange, adults you are now enjoying glory and wealth, but later, you die really strange." Fei Zhong asked: "But I do not know what kind of death?" Wen Wang replied, "Although there is a fixed number of people's life and death, there are due to disease and death, there are due to water and fire and death, there are swords and soldiers and death, there are falling and dying, or hanging beams and throwing wells and death, and you, my lord, you will have to freeze and die in the middle of June in the future!" When Fei Zhong heard this, his face changed, and he asked King Wen: "Your lordship, for his own life, has he ever accounted for it?" King Wen replied, "On the contrary, I have occupied it." "But I don't know how the day and the day", Fei Zhong asked. King Wen said, "I've got a good end and a hundred sons to see me off. More than you, my lord, but much better." This would have annoyed anyone who heard it. You got a good death, but I got a bad death! Isn't this clearly mocking me? What's more, ancient people were very jealous of life and death, and Fei Zhong was a narrow-minded, vindictive villain. Therefore, it didn't matter that King Wen took this divination, but Fei Zhong was offended. Fei Zhong thought that King Wen had teased him, and with a grudge, he went to King Zhou and complained to King Wen. As a result, King Wen was imprisoned by King Zhou for 7 years and suffered a lot. Not only that, his eldest son, Bo Yi Kao, was killed by King Zhou in order to rescue King Wen. King Wen, because of drunkenness, randomly play the trigrams, leaking the heavenly secrets, pay ...... >>

I Ching how to calculate the trigram du know army actually said. Now the mainstream is the Najia divination method and Plum Blossom Yi number is also known as hexagrams and Plum Blossom Yi

The I Ching itself is to talk about the yin and yang laws of the hexagrams. Confucianism's rhetoric is Confucianism for this law to fill the rhetoric, as their own kind of human attitude, but now the stalls or Jiang Xiang school but take Confucianism's rhetoric to be used to calculate the trigrams. Then the concept of relying on the rhetoric of this kind of horse back round leads many people to think that fortune-telling is linguistics is psychology.

Whether it is fortune telling or fortune-telling or feng shui is very rigorous, are from the yin and yang of the elimination of step by step deduction, as from the most basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to calculus. It is not something that can be learned in a few months and a few days.

What are the tools for divination? There are many tools for divination, small to salt, tea leaves, plates, can be divination, large to tarot cards, astrological compass, a lot of things, the most important thing is the method and the content of your divination, such as divination of love, you can use different tools and methods. I personally better at tarot card divination, but interesting divination method I also like, such as the morning of my fried egg divination, if fried out of the convenience of the egg is paste, then today's luck is not good, if the fried egg yolk in the center, then you will have good luck today, if the egg yolk in the right, then you will be very lucky. I introduce a few simple methods below, you refer to: tea is divinatory, is a relatively low-level way of divination.

Boiling water to make tea, be careful to drink the tea, the tea cup clockwise counterclockwise each turn three times, read the shape of the tea leaves, unskilled divination to control the books. 1, yarrow: this is a jointed, hollow, end of the white hairs of the wild plants in the mountains. After the fall ripening after the selection of its thickness is similar, section length is similar, each root has twelve sections (do not have to stick to this number) a **** fifty roots. In fact, it is not limited to yarrow. Because the yarrow 50 trees and sorting the divining method is mainly to number should be. So the use of things is not very important. To wooden sticks, bamboo poles, can be, but not too thick, to the sum of fifty trees for holding in the hand is appropriate. Select the same texture, the same color, the same thickness, the same length, easy to collect, can be used.　　2, coins (money instead of yarrow method) in fact, this is not limited to coins, where the same size, can be divided out of the face of the items can be, (such as shells) why did the ancients use coins? Because the currency is the most widely circulated things, people all use it, everywhere, and meet the size of the same, the same texture, can be divided out of the reverse whole side of the requirements, so it is widely used. The reason for this does not lie in the fact that it is round on the outside and square on the inside! And the outer circle is like the sky, the inner square is like the earth is a design concept of the ancients when minting coins, but the outer circle is very important, because the outer circle of the object is good mobility, so that the shaking of the hexagrams when the randomness is stronger. According to this principle, later people also use the "Taiji pill" to shake the trigrams.　　As for the coin with what kind of good? Selected in accordance with the following principles, 1, three coins with the same (the same texture, the same size, the same pattern) 2, do not have mutilated. 3, the front and back of the two sides of the difference between the good (for example, one side of the plane, and the other side of the text) Song and Yuan before the currency of most of the side of the texture (word) a side of the plain. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially the Qing Dynasty coins, one side of Chinese characters, one side of Manchu, is the worst kind, modern people use the Qing Dynasty coins, especially the Qianlong coins, this is not because it is good, but because it is more, because it is easy to get. Some scholars have mistaken this as only the best Qianlong coins, this is really a big mistake, and even put it into the book, said "six lines" to money instead of yarrow method to use the Qianlong money, this theory has become a standard. I do not know to money instead of divination method is *** Beijing room inherited his teacher Jiao Yanshou's school created, then several dynasties early Qing Dynasty, where to find Qianlong money? It is not false!　　The fundamental principle of yin and yang. Because gossip is composed of yin and yang lines. As long as the use of trigrams can be divided into yin and yang. Yin and Yang distinguish the more obvious the better. What is yin and yang it. For example, round for yang, square for yin, hard for yang, soft for yin, male for yang, female for yin, convex for yang, concave for yin, polished for yang, texture for yin, texture for yin, texture less for yang, texture more for yin. So, for coins, the polished side is yang and the side with characters (texture) is yin, while the Qianlong money has less texture on the side with Manchu characters and more texture on the side with four Chinese characters. The Manchu side is yang and the Chinese side is yin.　　Ancient people have to shell trigrams, shells of the inward concave side of the yin, the convex side of the yang, this method is the use of this principle.　　It can be seen, six lines to money instead of divining method of tools can not only use coins, with other things can also be used, but the use of coins shaking trigrams, the choice of coins to comply with the above principles, Qianlong money, including the Qing Dynasty and other dynasties, both sides of the money are not in the first choice of the case, there is no one side of the grain side of the money when the money, Qianlong money estimate and substitute.　　Modern RMB coins are mostly unusable, not because they don't have a square hole in the center, but because the front and back are covered with text patterns, almost indistinguishable from yin and yang, and this kind of coins reflects the information in a delayed and pure way, which is difficult to understand. Therefore, it cannot be used.　　Taiji pills are also bad. This is the three equal size of the ball, grinding out the symmetry of the six small planes, each two symmetrical surface engraved (-, ---) the two symbols, used to shake the method of trigrams. This method of showing yin and yang is not very obvious.　　Material, the material of the coin is not affected by the magnetic field of gold, copper, aluminum, etc. is good, iron coins due to the influence of the magnetic field, and under this influence, between the coin and the coin will also have an impact, so it is not suitable for use. So choose gold, silver, copper and other ...... >>

Calculating trigrams ah how to learn ah! The first: I Ching divination

This reference seems to be very strange, is not to say that other methods are not based on the principles of I Ching? In fact, here the word "I Ching" is to emphasize that after playing the trigrams, the judgment of good or bad is to be based on the I Ching (of course, Zhou Yi, and then directly called Zhou Yi) of the scriptures, that is, the trigrams and lines to determine the good or bad.

According to the method of divination, it can be divided into two kinds: the number of diffraction, that is, with 50 yarrow (shi1) grass for divination; the second is the well-known money gossip, with three copper to calculate the trigrams (of course, after the use of copper to trigrams, you can also use the hexagrams or plum blossoms and other methods of interpretation and analysis, and that's a different story).

The use of this method requires that the original I Ching hexagrams and lines are very familiar with, but also very skilled in the use of analogies, in order to use freely.

The second type: five elements divination

This type of method incorporates the concepts of yin and yang, and in some cases, the factors of heavenly stems and earthly branches.

There are three main: the six-non occupation method, six lines occupation method, and then I often use the plum blossom easy number.

This method is based on the five elements of the birth and death to determine the good and bad, generally do not need to consult the original Zhou Yi.

The third type of divination is the signing of the text

This method is very common, and it is one of the most seen in the streets (including TV dramas), and its forms are various. But the essence is the same, are written in advance in the note or bamboo stick with a certain meaning of the signatures, and then use some kind of method to extract the selection of these signatures, and usually there are people who specialize in the interpretation of these signatures.

For example, there is the person who seeks to test the sign in person, there are also birds to peck (called the bird account, and the plum blossom of the bird account in different), or with playing cards divination, and a variety of other methods vary.

This method, in the community to see the most, the main reason is that this method is easy to grasp, two because these methods have short and quick features. If you help people on the street with the big six non or hexagrams and other methods of fortune-telling, and so you analyze with the explanation of the end

I'm afraid to old half a day, I'm afraid that the people who ask for the Gua Gua have long been impatient to go away.

Fourth: other methods

Mainly Taiyi, Qimen Tanjia, etc., these methods are known as the art of mathematics, profound, of course, can not be ignored, only because I am not very well understood, it is only mentioned regardless of the deep understanding of the way to apologize. For other methods if omissions, also hope that the road gentleman to add correction.

Now in society, many people often online to self-help divination (their own operation on the web page) to generate results directly, this belongs to the signature divination, I believe that many people have used, these results are generated directly by the computer program.

Now we commonly used divination methods are hexagrams and Plum Blossom Yi, there are also people with Qimen, six non-native and other methods, can also be said to have their own victory, a variety of flowers bloom.

It is best to go to the bookstore to buy a book of Zhouyi to see for yourself.

What is the meaning of divination divination, said together is one thing, divided into two things.

In the joint statement, divination is fortune-telling.

In other words, divination is divining, by counting yarrow, shaking coins and other methods of divination, and then performance judgment. Divination, that is, bone divination, with a turtle shell or cattle scapula, burned to see the cracks.

What are the schools of divination? Plum Blossom Yi-number Zhou Yi divination method , chicken divination, bird divination, bird divination, water divination, star divination, card divination object number occupation, sound mutual, word occupation [word occupation includes a word occupation, two words occupation .... The Chinese folklore of fortune-telling, divination and tarot card divination

Fortune-telling, fortune-telling, divination You take your birth year, month, day and time

Where you were born

In the household register, you are the first of your siblings