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Old 11-21-2007, 03:53 PM  
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btw for those that dont wanna read what iching is and want cliff notes..

basically in ancient times you flip 3 coins , whatever te majority is head or tails is yin or yang , each time you get yin you draw a line with a dash , yang is an unbroken line. You do this 6 times starting from the bottom row first until you have a symbol that might look like this

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there are 64 symbols ( hexagrans ) total

each symbol is seperated into trigrams.. the upper trigram and lower trigram

each trigram is obviously 3 lines.

there are 8 possible trigrams each representing various earthly elemnts, body parts, action and animal ( among other things )
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