I Ching: Fifty Stalks

By Josh Shuman on AppTrack Ninja.

Cast the I Ching by hand

Fifty stalks on a cloth. This is how the Book of Changes was consulted before coins. You bring one question, then work the heap with your hands. One finger stirs the stalks. Two fingers part them, and wherever you divide is where the count begins. Count down in fours until a remainder is left, three times over, and you have one line. Six lines make a hexagram. It takes about few minutes, and that time is the point. The counting occupies your hands and keeps you on the question. The hexagram you get is produced by where your own hands divided the heap, not by a number drawn the instant you tap…

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