Plum Blossom Oracle in I Ching
Aidyn S.
There is a modern direction in I Ching called “Mei Hua I Ching – Plum Blossom Oracle”. Does anybody in this group have any experience in using it and what are your thoughts about it?
Aidyn Shekihan
This is my answer to the Mei Hua Oracle question.
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Mei Hua (Plum Blossom) Oracle Technique
This divination technique stays far outside of mainstream I
Ching’s casting methods (based on Yarrow Stalks, coins, germs, cards etc.) and
plays a special role in
I Ching’s divination practice, introducing its very own, original,
trigrams-based casting approach.
The main principle behind Mei Hua casting technique is that not only what you ask from I Ching oracle but also when you ask your question is important. Mei Hua’s foundational statement for diviners is that synchronization with Conscious Universe is a time dependent exercise and therefore a time of casting is an important key to get a target hexagram.
With that technique a casting of target hexagram happens in two steps - low trigram casting uses a time component while upper trigram casting is based on the text of your question. Each sub-casting produces a number which needs to be mapped to corresponding low and upper trigram.
And how do you map your casting numbers to trigrams – one may ask?
It is being said that you can use either Early or Later Heaven Sequence Arrangement at your choice, but the same sequence chart you must use everywhere during your casting session. Some I Ching sources – Lillian Too, for example, favor using Later Heaven Arrangement, closely related to magic square. Other sources lean to using more “traditional” early heaven sequence. The choice is yours – both mapping techniques will produce insightful results as long as you implement it correctly. And once your preferred arrangement is set – stick to it – consistency is a key here.
Getting Moving Line.
Under Plum Blossom Oracle rules the moving line of each hexagram is defined by adding the upper trigram number to the low trigram number and then taking the remainder of division that sum by 6. The remainder of division of any number by six is always a number from 0 to 5, then numbers 1 to 5 map to the first 5 lines of the hexagram, when the number 0 will map to the top, 6th line of the hexagram.
Known limitations.
While Plum Blossom Technique offers important flexibilities it is not free from limitations.
1. When real life scenarios can lead to no moving lines or even to 6 moving lines in each casting, the Blum Blossom Oracle always produces only one moving line.
2. The moving line number in Plum Blossom Oracle is a result of adding upper and low trigram numbers together and dividing sum by modulo 6. This means that the moving line number for a hexagram is fixed here for each hexagram and never changes regardless of your situation and your question to Oracle.
All in all – it is an interesting technique and I invite you to experiment with it and see how it works for you. Happy Casting!
There is a modern direction in I Ching called “Mei Hua I Ching – Plum Blossom Oracle”. Does anybody in this group have any experience in using it and what are your thoughts about it?
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