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An Introduction to Fifteen Common Divination Methods

A structured overview of fifteen common methods—including Tarot, palmistry, astrology, the I Ching, runes, and more—covering Chinese and English names, core principles, symbolic systems, and cultural background for readers beginning in metaphysics and esotericism.

EsotericismDivinationDivination SystemsTarotAstrologyI ChingNumerologyRunesPalmistryCrystal BallTea Leaf ReadingOsteomancyDream InterpretationAura ReadingClairvoyanceBibliomancy
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I ChingRead time 16 min

I Ching · No.02 · K'un / The Receptive

Khwăn (represents) what is great and originating, penetrating, advantageous, correct and having the firmness of a mare. When the superior man (here intended) has to make any movement, if he take the initiative, he will go astray; if he follow, he will find his (proper) lord. The advantageousness will be seen in his getting friends in the south-west, and losing friends in the north-east. If he rest in correctness and firmness, there will be good fortune.

I ChingYijingHexagram 2The ReceptiveDivination
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I ChingRead time 16 min

I Ching · No.04 · Mêng / Youthful Folly

Măng (indicates that in the case which it presupposes) there will be progress and success. I do not (go and) seek the youthful and inexperienced, but he comes and seeks me. When he shows (the sincerity that marks) the first recourse to divination, I instruct him. If he apply a second and third time, that is troublesome; and I do not instruct the troublesome. There will be advantage in being firm and correct.

I ChingYijingHexagram 4Youthful FollyDivination
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I ChingRead time 17 min

I Ching · No.06 · Sung / Conflict

Sung intimates how, though there is sincerity in one's contention, he will yet meet with opposition and obstruction; but if he cherish an apprehensive caution, there will be good fortune, while, if he must prosecute the contention to the (bitter) end, there will be evil. It will be advantageous to see the great man; it will not be advantageous to cross the great stream.

I ChingYijingHexagram 6ConflictDivination
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I ChingRead time 16 min

I Ching · No.08 · Pi / Holding Together [union]

Pî indicates that (under the conditions which it supposes) there is good fortune. But let (the principal party intended in it) re-examine himself, (as if) by divination, whether his virtue be great, unintermitting, and firm. If it be so, there will be no error. Those who have not rest will then come to him; and with those who are (too) late in coming it will be ill.

I ChingYijingHexagram 8Holding Together [union]Divination
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I ChingRead time 14 min

I Ching · No.18 · Ku / Work on what has been spoiled [ Decay ]

Kû indicates great progress and success (to him who deals properly with the condition represented by it). There will be advantage in (efforts like that of) crossing the great stream. (He should weigh well, however, the events of) three days before the turning point, and those (to be done) three days after it.

I ChingYijingHexagram 18Work on what has been spoiled [ Decay ]Divination
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I ChingRead time 14 min

I Ching · No.24 · Fu / Return (The Turning Point)

Fû indicates that there will be free course and progress (in what it denotes). (The subject of it) finds no one to distress him in his exits and entrances; friends come to him, and no error is committed . He will return and repeat his (proper) course. In seven days comes his return. There will be advantage in whatever direction movement is made.

I ChingYijingHexagram 24Return (The Turning Point)Divination
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I ChingRead time 15 min

I Ching · No.41 · Sun / Decrease

In (what is denoted by) Sun, if there be sincerity (in him who employs it), there will be great good fortune:--freedom from error; firmness and correctness that can be maintained; and advantage in every movement that shall be made. In what shall this (sincerity in the exercise of Sun) be employed? (Even) in sacrifice two baskets of grain, (though there be nothing else), may be presented.

I ChingYijingHexagram 41DecreaseDivination
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I ChingRead time 16 min

I Ching · No.43 · Kuai / Break-through (Resoluteness)

Kwâi requires (in him who would fulfil its meaning) the exhibition (of the culprit's guilt) in the royal court, and a sincere and earnest appeal (for sympathy and support), with a consciousness of the peril (involved in cutting off the criminal). He should (also) make announcement in his own city, and show that it will not be well to have recourse at once to arms. (In this way) there will be advantage in whatever he shall go forward to.

I ChingYijingHexagram 43Break-through (Resoluteness)Divination
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I ChingRead time 15 min

I Ching · No.45 · Ts'ui / Gathering Together [Massing]

In (the state denoted by) Ȝhui, the king will repair to his ancestral temple. It will be advantageous (also) to meet with the great man; and then there will be progress and success, though the advantage must come through firm correctness. The use of great victims will conduce to good fortune; and in whatever direction movement is made, it will be advantageous.

I ChingYijingHexagram 45Gathering Together [Massing]Divination
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I ChingRead time 14 min

I Ching · No.48 · Ching / The Well

(Looking at) Ȝing, (we think of) how (the site of) a town may be changed, while (the fashion of) its wells undergoes no change. (The water of a well) never disappears and never receives (any great) increase, and those who come and those who go can draw and enjoy the benefit. If (the drawing) have nearly been accomplished, but, before the rope has quite reached the water, the bucket is broken, this is evil.

I ChingYijingHexagram 48The WellDivination
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I ChingRead time 16 min

I Ching · No.51 · Chên / The Arousing (Shock, Thunder)

Kăn gives the intimation of ease and development. When (the time of) movement (which it indicates) comes, (the subject of the hexagram) will be found looking out with apprehension, and yet smiling and talking cheerfully. When the movement (like a crash of thunder) terrifies all within a hundred lî, he will be (like the sincere worshipper) who is not (startled into) letting go his ladle and (cup of) sacrificial spirits.

I ChingYijingHexagram 51The Arousing (Shock, Thunder)Divination
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I ChingRead time 14 min

I Ching · No.62 · Hsiao Kuo / Preponderance of the Small

Hsiâo Kwo indicates that (in the circumstances which it implies) there will be progress and attainment. But it will be advantageous to be firm and correct. (What the name denotes) may be done in small affairs, but not in great affairs. (It is like) the notes that come down from a bird on the wing;--to descend is better than to ascend. There will (in this way) be great good fortune.

I ChingYijingHexagram 62Preponderance of the SmallDivination
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