Meihua: Anything Can Cast a Hexagram

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Attributed to Song-dynasty scholar Shao Yong, Meihua Yishu casts hexagrams from time or numbers. The body trigram represents you, the use trigram the matter at hand; their five-element relationship, read across original, mutual and resulting hexagrams, reveals near-term change.

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  1. Start with the basic vocabulary and one symbol at a time.
  2. Write down your question, its context, and how you read it.
  3. Do not treat a symbolic system as medical, legal, or financial advice.

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