Secrets of Chinese Divination – A beginner’s guide to 11 ancient oracle systems
Secrets of Chinese Divination
Baffled by Chinese astrology? Confused by Feng Shui? Secrets of Chinese Divination delves into 11 major Chinese divination systems based on ancient practices, providing easily accessible introductions and instructions so the beginner can put these methods to use.
Included are the following:
- Chinese astrology
- Feng Shui
- I Ching
- Chinese hand reading
- Face reading
- Lunar oracle
- Mah Jong reading
- Lo Shu Square
- Weighing the bones
- Yarrow stick divination
- Four Pillars of Destiny
About the Author:
Born in Bushey, near London (UK), Sasha Fenton became a professional astrologer, palmist, and tarot card reader in 1974. She has written 127 books, mainly on mind, body, and spirit subjects, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies and translations into 12 different languages. Sasha has written articles for every national newspaper and major magazine in Britain and many overseas publications as well.
The I Ching is used in a type of divination called cleromancy, which uses apparently random numbers. Six numbers between 6 and 9 are turned into a hexagram, which can then be looked up in the text, in which hexagrams are arranged in an order known as the King Wen sequence. The interpretation of the readings found in the I Ching is a matter which has been endlessly discussed and debated over in the centuries following its compilation, and many commentators have used the book symbolically, often to provide guidance for moral decision making as informed by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The hexagrams themselves have often acquired cosmological significance and been paralleled with many other traditional names for the processes of change such as yin and yang and Wu Xing.
