{"id":4269,"date":"2020-05-30T05:23:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T04:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=4269"},"modified":"2020-05-30T05:26:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T04:26:07","slug":"coins","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/coins","title":{"rendered":"coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually three coin are used for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/divination\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The I Ching oracle is traditionally determined by using coins or yarrow sticks. At no2DO.com we go a different way and use a mixture of human factor and a computer generated random number. The main difference - besides convenience and speed - are the numerical values that are generated by the different oracle methods: no2DO&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">divination<\/a>. 3 is assigned as a value to the front of each coin, the 2 to the back. By tossing coins, the total value is 6, 7, 8 or 9, with 6 and 8 representing a broken line (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/yin\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Yin originally referred to the colder north side of a mountain, the shaded river bank or the darker, cooler south side of a valley. Later on Yin was associated with the idea of days with cool weather and overcast skies, with shadows and all that is dark, cool and humid, with water and earth, night&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">yin<\/a>) and 7 and 9 representing a solid line (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/yang\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Yang was initially symbolized by the warmer, southern side of the mountain, a sunny bank, later the mountain as a whole. Subsequently Yang represented everything including light and bright day, summer and sun. Also dryness, air (wind) and fire were assigned to Yang, as well as increasingly warm days of spring, the warmer season's flourishing&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">yang<\/a>). This process is repeated six times until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/hexagram\" target=\"_self\" title=\"A hexagram is formed by two trigrams, with the movement going upwards, just like plant growth: in divination the hexagram is built from bottom to top and later read accordingly. Read more: Structure of a Hexagram Read more: Overview hexagrams\" class=\"encyclopedia\">hexagram<\/a> is complete.<br>\nThe values 6 and 9 are regarded as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/changing-lines\" target=\"_self\" title='Depending on the divination method (yarrow stalks, coins or electronic oracle as we use it on no2DO), different numerical values result for each individual \"throw\": no2DO oracle (electronic): 7 or 8 coins or yarrow stalks: 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 The values 6 and 9 are regarded as changing lines, i.e. they change&hellip;' class=\"encyclopedia\">changing lines<\/a>, i.e. they change into their respective opposite: 6 (Yin) becomes 7 (Yang), 9 (Yang) becomes 8 (Yin). This transforms the original hexagram into another of the 64 hexagrams.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Ching_divination#Three-coin_method\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Ching_divination#Three-coin_method<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually three coin are used for divination. 3 is assigned as a value to the front of each coin, the 2 to the back. By tossing coins, the total value is 6, 7, 8 or 9, with 6 and 8 representing a broken line (yin) and 7 and 9 representing a solid line (yang). This&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/coins\">Weiterlesen:<span> coins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","class_list":["post-4269","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}