I Ching Divination is another Chinese metaphysical subjects that also attract worldwide interest. A lot of book sold on the book store talks about I Ching, but that kind of I Ching that explained in the book store referring to the Book of Changes compiled by King Wen, the China Emperor of Chao Dinasty in 1122 B.C. and Confucius, a Chinese thinker and social philosopher (551 B.C. - 479 B.C.) These books served for academic and philosophical only. I will give you one example of the interpretation inside these books: "Here the great man has attained the sphere of the heavenly beings. His influence spreads and become visible throughout the whole world. Everyone who sees him may count himself blessed. Confucius says about this line: Things that accord in tone vibrate together. Things that have affinity in their inmost natures seek one another. Water flows to what is wet, fire turns to what is dry. Clouds (breath of heaven) follow the dragon, wind (the breath of earth) follows the tiger. Thus the sage arises, and all creatures follow him with their eyes. What is born of heaven feels related to what is above. What is born of earth feels to what is below. Each follows its kind." I think most of you all agree with me that this verse it's hard to interpret because it is very abstract.

The term I Ching (translated as "Book of Change") is built upon a series of lines either continuous or broken which form into a Trigrams (see picture above) and Hexagrams (combination of the trigrams). The continous line is translated as Yang and the broken line as Yin in Chinese view. These symbols was invented by a sage named "Fu Hsi" who lived at least over 6,000 years ago.

There is another more systematic technique in using I Ching to forecast something (we call it "King Wen's Way" to differentiate it). With I Ching, you can ask a questions and getting the answers. There are several methods to derive this Hexagrams, like using the yarrow stalks, Plum Blossom Oracle (by just looking at the date and time you or somebody ask the questions), and the Coin method

First you must have a question before you toss the coins. Toss 3 coins 6 times to set up the six lines of the Hexagram. After you draw the hexagram, interpret the meaning of the hexagram.

The questions you asked must be very specific. If you have a question like "Can I get money from my business?" It is a general questions without a term of time. So if the I Ching Divination result shows that you can make money, but you don't know when the time is (maybe when you're getting older). Try to include a specific time, usually 6 months up to 1 year.

If you lost something, you can also ask whether this thing will show up or not, or the characteristics of the thief. There are many kind of questions you can ask, whether health, conflict, stolen things, unsolved cases, US president election, football match, etc. But remember, don't ask bad questions like "If I stole this thing, can I be found to be the culprit?" or "If I copy this thing, will I get caught?".

On 27 January 2008, I do an I Ching divination asking about the health of the former Indonesian president, Suharto, with these six months and it comes out that the Earth element is attacking the Water element and the Water Element is also not in season, so I guess that Suharto probably will have a kidney problem (water element) within these six months. If come out on the next morning that Suharto passed away because of kidney failure.

Some of the I Ching practitioner using animals to put into all the six lines like raven, earthworm, snake, tiger, tortoise, dragon. Dragon is the best animal. If the Subject line or key element that we asked sits on snake, usually it indicates a mishap (die or can't reveal the things).

Hery Yansen is a Chinese Metaphysics practitioner and owner of Authentic Feng Shui Asia website. His website http://www.authenticfengshui.asia provides an informative content on different kinds of Chinese metaphysics for those who are keen learner on Chinese metaphysics subjects.