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| I Ching | Applications Divers |
This could be thought of as a real instant computer prediction. I Ching is really a 2000 year old Chinese book with a list of 64 hexagrams (symbols made up of six broken or unbroken lines) each with its own judgement' a not particularly lucid piece of text. You ponder any problem, cast the hexagram and read off the judgement. The method was much loved by the psychologist Carl Jung who saw it as an excellent way of tapping the powers of the unconscious. The traditional method of casting the hexagram was a particularly complicated piece of manual dexterity using 50 yarrow stalks and half an hour of valuable time. Compared to this the Astrocalc program picks you a random hexagram in seconds and even takes a stab at giving you a more meaningful explanation than the average I Ching judgement. Again you ponder the problem but this time you merely press a key at what you consider the right moment. Your chosen hexagram is shown, with a line of interpretation for the hexagram to deal with the present situation. The program also shows moving lines (specially meaningful lines that you would get with the Yarrow stalk method) and these each have a short interpretation. These moving lines are then reversed to give you a hexagram dealing with the future. As the interpretation of the I Ching judgements is very subjective the purists could well argue against the shortened versions that the program provide. However as the judgements themselves are commonly regarded as quite obscure it is obvious that the changes were made in an honest attempt to give a more meaningful interpretation. Purists could sit with a translation of the I Ching and look up the more traditional judgements if they felt inclined. 8000PLUS
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