King Wen Wheel of Fortune

The LuoShu oracle

  The LuoShu oracle (or Bagua Oracle) resembles a spread of tokens or image cards, like Tarot, runes and many other oracles. Trigrams are symbols, they have names/images like banners, a plow, a person shouting to the sky. They also have an element, like fire. The difference with most image cards is that the symbols are much wider. They encompass earth and heaven, open and closed, bright and dark, hard and soft - 'all that is'.

  In this oracle you receive one trigram for one of the 8 situations, one for your actions in this situation. This yields 64 possibilities. And yes, of course this is the I Ching (Yi Jing). But here are no texts that have to be deciphered, apart from the names and attributes of the trigrams. They tell you about images, they give your intuition the space it needs. It is the associative (yin) way of reading, in contrast to the analytical way of existing hexagram interpretations, made by other minds than your own.

Consulting an oracle not only gives you advice for your problem, it also makes you acquainted with associative thinking. Once you discover it, you start to use it more often and with more confidence. It is the language of intuition and all forms of creativity.

  Finding back the associative way and restoring it to its rightful place is the future of humanity and the basis of feminism. It is a huge, yet neglected and often even denied skill. It is a skill that comes naturally to women, but also to the feminine side of men.