Fascinating, and it's so lovely that people stayed on and kept talking.
I am a serious I-Chingist myself (and a fan of your book on it!), and I can fully understand why your made-up divination experiment got that response.
We respond creatively to randomness that gives us evocative images that force us to commit to some life choice.
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Another workshop done and glad I got a chance to introduce colleagues to the I Ching hexagrams as an example for #BottomUpDesign and as system for constructing/composing higher level concepts/meanings from just a small set of fundamental archetypes (in the I Ching there're only 8 fundamental trigrams)... It's been hugely influential and a guiding principle for my own work & design philosophy (incl. for most of my #OpenSource projects) and I keep finding ever new uses for applying this approach, here to devise a composable classification system, eventually allowing us to define more complex concepts... In world defined by #TopDownThinking, going the opposite way and showing people the benefits/flexibility is sometimes/oftentimes _very_ hard, but to me unquestionably more powerful...
Ps. Also reminded again of the whole Seed technology and essence/function (aka "ti-yong") contrast/discussion/subplots in Stephenson's Diamond Age... Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence...
« The idea of return is based on the course of nature. The movement is cyclic, and the course completes itself. Therefore it is not necessary to hasten anything artificially. Everything comes of itself at the appointed time. This is the meaning of heaven and earth. »
— Hexagram #24 from the I Ching
· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/743528434662293504/the-idea-of-return-is-based-on-the-course-of
I mean c'mon. For anyone who has ever picked up the Book of Changes, this one was easy, right? (Yesterday's so no spoiler! Also - have I mentioned I wrote an I Ching app?) 
https://story4change.substack.com/p/today-began-with-five-coffees
« Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his movements. By devotion to this divine spirit within himself, he attains an unsullied innocence that leads him to do right with instinctive sureness and without any ulterior thought of reward and personal advantage. This instinctive certainty brings about supreme success and… »
― Hexagram #25 from the I Ching
· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/722501605352751104/man-has-received-from-heaven-a-nature-innately
And i thought the I Ching calculator in one of the Dirk Gently novels (#DouglasAdams) was a joke.
I mean, it was a joke, but apparently a different kind of joke than i thought.
#DirkGently #IChing
Agreed, #WillBuckingham is a lucid and incisive writer. I have not yet read the book you mention, but I have learnt a lot from his various philosphical excursions. In my pwn life, the #IChing has been an important text and navigation tool, and Buckingham's essay on the I Ching offers a unique and urgent perspective on this classic text:
https://aeon.co/essays/forget-prophecy-the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine.
He's also here on Mastodon, @willbuckingham, a regular poster.
Liber CCXVI I Ching for February 9: Hsiao Kwo, Fire of Earth, ䷽
The Moving Line:
Without precautions, enemies assail;
or
Men be incaution ask their foes to assail;
https://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib216#the-hsiao-kwo-hexagram
#IChing #HexagramOfTheDay #DailyHexagram #divination #cleromancy
Let's get theoretical for a sec. How do you feel about pairs of opposites (dyads) vs. triads?
Dyads are easier to conceptualize, but binary systems based on polarity wind up feeling flat and lifeless to me somehow (no disrespect to the I Ching).
I'd favor a system based on triads where one element in each is primary, the source of the other two. Think of matter and antimatter arising from aether. This is observably how physical reality works. Describing matter and antimatter doesn't mean much without a concept to unite the opposites.
The concept of binary "significant features" played a big role in my linguistics education. For example, a speech sound can either be voiced (like /z/) or voiceless (like /s/). But there are many cases where context doesn't require that either value be specified, so a third option is needed.
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Liber CCXII I Ching for January 24: Kieh, Moon of Water, ䷻
The Moving Line:
Observe no rules? Lament; the blame’s to thee.
or
Thou mayest lament if thou should’st disobey.
https://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib216#the-kieh-hexagram1
#IChing #HexagramOfTheDay #DailyHexagram #divination #cleromancy
Liber CCXII I Ching hexagram for January 17
Ming
Yoni of Sun
䷣
MING: Intelligence sore hurt; reflect
on the position rigidly correct.
The Moving Line:
Escape from night by mind’s propriety.
https://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib216#the-ming-hexagram
#IChing #HexagramOfTheDay #DailyHexagram #divination #cleromancy
The October installment of 'Polylith' has arrived, bearing a few autumnal images to consider:
«Para una versión del #IKing» [fragmentos]
El porvenir es tan irrevocable
como el rígido ayer,
no hay una cosa
que no sea una letra silenciosa
de la eterna escritura indescifrable,
cuyo libro es el tiempo.
[…]
Quien se aleja de su casa
ya ha vuelto, […]
el camino es fatal como la flecha. […]
Interesting concept by Adam Alter, and an article/interview well worth reading.
I see parallels between the sideways action proposed by Alter and the submission to a random judgement when consulting the I Ching: the randomness in drawing the judgement helps us taking a fresh look at the situation we are stuck in, and the commitment to take the judgement seriously and act on it is what makes us actually experience the release from being stuck.
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