Lin Wan’er (Alani) stared at the hexagram presented by the nine copper coins, and became more and more surprised.
She had never encountered such an ambiguous, or half-and-half situation before.
Among the nine copper coins, the front and back and directions of four are exactly at the gate of life, the other four are exactly at the gate of death, and the key one is just at the position of life or death.
This kind of life or death does not refer to the copper coin itself, but when you look at it together with the four life gates, the five copper coins can simultaneously form a life gate hexagram.
But if you look at it together with the other four death gates, it can also form a death gate hexagram.
It’s like when two countries are at war, and a mixed-race baby is born. The national strength of these two countries is exactly equal, so only this baby can change the scales. If the baby takes on the nationality of the father, he will become an enemy of the mother’s country, and vice versa.
Lin Wan’er (Alani) has been fortune-telling for hundreds of years, but this is the first time she has seen such a strange hexagram.
She silently grabbed nine copper coins and threw them out again. Although the positions of all the coins had changed this time, Lin Wan’er (Alani) came to the same conclusion again by interpreting the hexagram.
Seeing her frown, charlie Wade couldn’t help but ask again: “Miss Lin, what does the hexagram show this time?”
Lin Wan’er (Alani) shook her head: “It’s the same as before, nothing has changed.”
charlie Wade was surprised and asked her, “I just wrote down the front and back of all the coins and their positions. Compared to the previous hexagram, the position of each coin has changed, and the front and back have also changed. Why is the hexagram the same?”
Lin Wan’er (Alani) smiled and said, “Young Master, you learned Feng Shui from the Nine Profound Heavenly Scriptures, but there doesn’t seem to be any divination in there. Hexagrams aren’t interpreted based on appearances, but rather using their unique logic. The two hexagrams may appear unrelated on the surface, but the actual readings are exactly the same.”
charlie Wade sighed: “There really isn’t any advanced divination technique in the Nine Profound Heavenly Scriptures.”
Lin Wan’er (Alani) explained, “The reason why divination is so mysterious is because its underlying logic is equivalent to a software that can simulate calculations.”
“Young Master, now that you’re involved in car manufacturing, you should know that modern simulated car collisions, in addition to actual crash tests, can also be simulated in software. The software itself has already set the physical properties of Earth as constants. During the simulation, you only need to input parameters such as the vehicle’s weight, speed, collision avoidance design, material strength, collision location, collision object, etc., and you can simulate the collision results of the car in detail.”
“My fortune-telling relies on the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams. Although the ancients didn’t have computers, they used years of observation to grasp the underlying logic of the world and even the universe, and then created the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams. The core of the I Ching is “yin and yang,” which is actually the earliest binary system, similar to the 0 and 1 in the computer world. I use copper coins for fortune-telling. The front and back of the coin, like yin and yang, is also a form of binary.”
“These nine coins are like the nine important parameters of a computer simulation. By using the Yijing Bagua software to simulate these nine parameters, we can predict the direction and outcome of events, as well as the variables involved. As long as the development of events does not deviate from the operating model of this world, the deduction results will not deviate too much. Although the positions and front and back of the nine coins may be different, the reason why nine coins are needed for divination is that all divination depends not on the state of a single coin, but on the relationship between the nine coins. In other words, dropping nine coins on a table, a room, or even scattering them throughout the courtyard will not affect the result.”
The I Ching and the Eight Trigrams are not feudal superstitions, but the truth of simplicity.
0 and 1 can constitute the virtual world of computers, and yin and yang can naturally constitute all things in the world.
However, Lin Wan’er (Alani) may be the only person in the world who truly masters the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams and can use nine variable parameters for calculations and deductions.