Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Shang oracle bone divination (c. 13th to 11th century BCE) burned turtle shells and ox bones, read the cracks, then carved the question onto the bone.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Tam Thức is Thái Ất, Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp and Lục Nhâm: three old divination arts for affairs of state, of action and of single matters, compared.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Thái Ất Thần Số, one of the Tam Thức arts, read the fate of the state and natural disasters: the board, Host and Guest, and the accumulated-year count.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Day divination traces back to rishu day books excavated from Warring States, Qin and Han tombs, already systematized by the 3rd century BCE.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Explore the meaning of eyebrows in Eastern physiognomy: shape, length, color, and position reflect personality, destiny, and health.
Updated 5 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Ancient leaf books of the May people, a Chut subgroup, held incantations and ritual texts, and the artisans who can read them have nearly vanished.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › I Ching & Five Elements The I Ching is an ancient Chinese philosophical and divination system built on 64 hexagrams formed from the eight trigrams, or Bagua.
Updated 11 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Lục Nhâm is an ancient divination method in the Tam Thức group. Learn how Đại Lục Nhâm builds a chart: Thien Ban, Tứ Khóa, Tam Truyền, and Thiên Tướng.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Dunhuang manuscripts from the 9th and 10th centuries cover day-selection, dream interpretation, physiognomy, and home feng shui.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching What yin and yang mean, where the terms come from, and how Kinh Dịch, Bát Tự, Tử Vi and phong thủy use them, each by its own conventions.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Chicken feet divination at Tet and the new rice ceremony of ethnic minorities aims to predict fate and crops for the new year.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The nine palaces are the nine cells of the Luo Shu, a 3x3 square whose every line totals 15, and the grid used by Huyền Không and Kỳ Môn.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Chu Hy's method for judging change in the Dịch học khải mông sets out which text to read when a hexagram has one to six moving lines.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Tarot began as a 15th-century Italian noble card game, only becoming an occult divination tool some 300 years later in France and England.
Updated 17 Jul 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Philosophy of science The numerology system that reads core numbers from names and birth dates took shape in America in the early 20th century with L. Dow Balliett.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Scientific historiography treats Tử Vi, Bát Tự and Thái Ất as calculation techniques built on the can chi calendar and ancient astronomy.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching What is the I Ching? Trace its origins in yin and yang lines and the philosophy of Yin-Yang and the Eight Trigrams, from the two symbols to the 64 hexagrams.
Updated 21 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Địa lý biện chính của Tưởng Đại Hồng chú giải năm kinh cổ, đính chính bản sai lưu truyền và đặt nền lý khí Tam Nguyên cho phái Huyền Không.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching A Kinh Dịch hexagram stacks several layers of text: name, hexagram text, six line texts, then the Thoán, Great Image, Small Image, and Văn Ngôn.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Explore Hexagram 26 (Shan Tian Da Xu) in the I Ching: its symbolism, judgment, the meaning of inner accumulation, and practical applications in work and life.
Updated 21 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The He Tu and Luo Shu are ancient diagrams behind feng shui li qi, explaining the 4-9-2 magic square and the nine palaces of the Later Heaven ba gua.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The hexagram Fire over Heaven (Da You) in the I Ching symbolizes great prosperity, and its lessons center on staying humble and keeping a bright mind.
Updated 23 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The Ten Wings (Thập Dực) are ten commentaries on the I Ching: Thoán, Tượng, Hệ Từ, Văn Ngôn, Tự Quái, Thuyết Quái, Tạp Quái.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Bạch Mã Temple in Hanoi guards the East of Thăng Long's Four Guardian Temples and worships Long Đỗ, the city's tutelary god.
Updated 22 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Canonized in 135 BCE, the I Ching was reread by Song scholars along image-number and meaning-principle lines, then spread to Vietnam and the West.
Updated 28 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The I Ching is a philosophy of change, not a fate predictor. Applied to a career, it teaches a noble person to read the times and hold to principle.
Updated 23 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Explore how to apply the I Ching to family life: understanding relationships, conduct, preserving traditions, and building sustainable happiness.
Updated 20 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Tuần không in Lục Hào: the two branches missing from a ten-day cycle, how to find them for the six Giáp cycles, and what Tăng san bốc dịch says.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Online I Ching casting tosses three coins six times to form one hexagram. This guide covers the Tam Tài principle, the primary and changing hexagrams.
Updated 4 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 4 of the I Ching, Mountain over Water, comes from Kan and Gen and speaks of innocence, enlightenment, and acting amid immaturity.
Updated 19 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram Trạch Hỏa Cách No. 49 covers replacing the old with the new, from its Judgment and Image to why change must wait for the right moment.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy How does science view face reading? From 19th-century criminal anthropology to modern psychology, plus the misconceptions to avoid.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Folk traditional practices Palm reading is a folk divination practice that reads palm lines to infer personality and destiny, yet it has no scientific basis.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Explore the structure of the hexagram Ze Lei Sui (Following, #17) in the I Ching, along with profound lessons on following, leadership, and adaptation.
Updated 13 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Bát Môn in Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp covers the eight gates Huu, Sinh, Thuong, Do, Canh, Tu, Kinh and Khai, their trigram and element origins, and which favor a matter.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Thiệu Ung (Shao Yong, 1011 to 1077) and Hoàng Cực Kinh Thế: the image-and-number learning of the Song and the cycle of nguyên, hội, vận, thế.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Kinh Phòng (Jing Fang) of the Han: his life in the Book of Han, and the nạp giáp and eight-palace systems set out in Kinh thị Dịch truyện.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Fu Xi, King Wen, the Duke of Zhou and Confucius are all credited with the I Ching, but excavated manuscripts point to a late Western Zhou compilation.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Dictionary › Numerology Thần Số Học assigns meaning to numbers linked to birth date and name, offering a reference for personality tendencies and life lessons.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 37, Phong Hỏa Gia Nhân, addresses household order, each person's role, and influence spreading from within outward.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Apply the I Ching in business by reading its 64 hexagrams as archetypal situations, plus the principle of change and the spirit of the Well hexagram.
Updated 13 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Can Tarot truly predict the future, or is it a mirror reflecting the mind? A look at the limits of the 78-card deck and the introspection it depends on.
Updated 12 Jun 2026 Modern system
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