(hhdn) Divination requires talent

Divination is a process of creation, like playing Jazz or composing poem. You cannot apply what you learn mechanically. Therefore, for some body, no matter how hard you try…

Is there an objective standard to see who is more suitable in this area? Well, life code is a standard, and it is objective (you can't change your birth time by your will): The more Water you have, the better you can do divination, because people with strong Water are flexible in mind.

Let me start from the beginning. Wood doesn't equalize to wood. It represents lots of things including wood.  Wood represents long and slim things. It represents hair and nerve in human body, because nerves prolong.

Strong Wood serves as favor is a symbol for tall people, Wood codes are 1, 2, (3) and (4):

Taylor Swift: 6(6), 3(1), 4(8), 1(5), well know for being tall

The Wood code 1 is very strong: it has roots in (5) and (8), and support from (1) and Water in (5). Furthermore, her adolescence fortune is (3) which is Wood.

Robert Pershing Wadlow, the tallest guy on Earth, Feb 22, 1918: 5(7), 1(3), 7(1), unknown time.

1(3) was Wood sitting on positive Wood as the month column, being supported by Water (1). And his early fortunes were Wood fortune 2(4).

Edmund Kemper, killer, 2.06m, December 18, 1948, 11:04 pm: 5(1), 1(1), 5(3), 9(1). He has the 1 in month column got all the support from the basal codes.

Zhang Zilin, model, Miss World of 2007, 1.82m, March 22, 1984: 1(1), 4(4), 2(4). 2(4) is Wood sitting on Wood. She has double (4) as root and (1) to support Wood.

Lee Kwang Soo, “The Giraffe” of the Runningman, 1.90m, July 14, 1985: 2(2), 10(8), 1(3); 1(3) is Wood sitting on Wood.

Zlatan Ibrahimović, October 3, 1981: 8(10), 4(10), 1(3); 1(3) is Wood sitting on Wood. 1(3) and 2(4) are Wood sitting on Wood, as soon as it appears, Wood must be strong. So they are very typical among tall people.

On the other hand:

Kevin Hart, July 6, 1979: 2(8), 7(7), 1(11);

Daniel Radcliffe, July 23, 1989: 6(6), 8(8), 1(9);

Diego Buonanotte, April 19, 1988: 5(5), 3(5), 1(5);

Haley Joel Osment, April 10, 1988: 5(5), 3(5), 2(8);

They all have Wood as self code, and heavy Money, Talent or Authority. None of them has strong root for their self code. So they are all short.

And,

Gary Coleman born Feb 8, 1968: 5(9), 1(3), 5(9);

We know that 1(3) is Wood sitting on Wood, so it is the signature column for tall people. However, Gary Coleman’s 1(3) was surrounded by 5(9). 1 needed to overcome double 5 and (3) was crushed by double (9). The defeat of 1(3) made him ultra-short.

Fire codes are 3, 4, (6) and (7). Fire makes people passionate and hasty. But it also represents politeness. In the appearance, politeness is the opposite of hasty. It is easy to understand Fire makes people hasty, but why polite? The answer is: Fire represents beauty and decoration. Being polite is to decorate your image.

Fire is the symbol of literature. In ancient China, it represents intellectuals. Because literature was the only “knowledge” according to traditional Chinese value. Accounting and engineering were “skills” and not respected. In the modern west, Fire becomes the symbol of fashionable people. For example:

Kanye West, born June 8, 1977: 4(6), 3(7), 3(9). The first two columns are entirely Fire.

Kim Kardashian born on October 21, 1980: 7(9), 3(11), 4(4). She has (4)(11) merge to Fire.

Lindsay Lohan born July 2, 1986, 4:40 am:  3(3), 1(7), 4(8), 9(3). Double (3) merges (7) to Fire; (8) also merges (7) to Fire.

Justin Bieber born March 1, 1994, 12:56 am: 1(11), 3(3), 3(11), 1(7). He has a (3)(7)(11) full merge to Fire.

Besides of strong Fire, all of them have Fire as self code. It is easy to understand: Fire means beauty, the pursuit of beauty makes fashionable people.

Let’s go to Water. Water codes are (12), (1), 9 and 10. People with Water as self code are flexible, smart and mysterious. I didn’t like the word mysterious of the description, because it is vague. But indeed, Water is signature element for people who have mysterious power. For example:

Jesus Christ born mid night of December 25, AD1: 8(10), 7(1), 3(1), 5(1)

Hong Xiuquan born mid night of January 1, 1814: 10(10), 1(1), 10(4), 9(1)

Joseph Smith born December 23, 1805, 6:00 PM: 2(2), 5(1), 9(1), 6(10)

Nostradamus born December 14, 1503: 10(12), 1(1), 6(2). (12)(1)(2) formed a full gather to Water.

Shao Yong born January 21, 1011: 8(12), 8(2), 1(1), 1(11). He also had a full gather to Water.

Kaemon Takashima born December 24, 1832: 9(5), 9(1), 2(12). With (5)(1) merge to Water, all the codes expect the self code were Water.

There people were all born in Winter because it makes sure that they have Water code for month column. There's a blind note to about people's religion that: strong Fire makes people Buddhist, strong Water makes people Taoist. Of course it doesn't work today, because Buddhism and Taoism were the only religions in China. But there's reason for the note. Fire makes Buddhist because Buddhism is idealistic compare to Taoism which is not exactly a religion. Taoists are pure sorcerers and mysticisists, they don't have an unified ideology.

Here I need to introduce you about Shao Yong and Kaemon Takashima, because they are important people in divination. Shao Yong was a scholar in the Song dynasty. He never accepted official position although he was respected by all the powerful people including the emperor. And he was the only civilian was allowed to be worshiped in Confucius’ temple. Some people (atheists) nowadays refuse to believe Shao could do divination, they suspect he was a political broker, because officials respected him too much.

Shao was the inventor of the “plum flower” style divination which is a simplified version of traditional divination. I will teach you his method in my book. The fact that he simplified divination means he saw through divination and reached to the hidden rule. Sometimes I am still amazed by his wisdom. For example:

The above are the eight signs in Bagua. Shao Yong said all the signs can be converted to numbers (and vice versa). That Heaven=1, Lake=2, Fire=3, Thunder=4, Wind=5, Water=6 Mountain=7, Earth= 8. At first I thought: there’s no reason behind it, just remember. Turns out there actually is reason: with binary, all the lines are 1s and broken lines are 0s, then Earth 000=0, Mountain 001=1, Water 010=2, Wind 011=3, Thunder 100=4, Fire 101=5, Lake 110=6, Heaven 111=7. If you reverse it, you will have Shao Yong’s series. Why reverse it? Because divination is reverse life. Life, time and logic go forward and divination goes backward. It shows you the result first.

Kaemon Takashima was the most important Japanese prognosticator. He is very famous in Japan and China, some of his predictions are in history book. Till today Japan prognosticators call themselves Takashima-ryu. But I guess he is not famous worldwide, because this is his wiki page, it is Japanese language only. I didn’t even know how to spell his name in English.

Takashima wrote a book, recorded 300 examples. In my book, I will use his examples as my examples. Why? Because divinations are not repeatable. Unlike people’s birth day, it is there no matter what. You can’t prove this is the sign you came up with at the first time. So I will mainly use famous and existing examples. I will show you the a set of process about how to interpret symbols. Seems to me, Takashima is a little bit unbelievable. Because he didn’t have a process, he used his mere understanding of I Ching to get the right result. So I will re-interpret his examples and show you my way of doing it. I have a process and he didn’t. I don’t think it means I am better than him. It’s like two players. A can score with a team play strategy. B doesn’t have a strategy, and he can score as well. That means B is better than A, right?