Green Yarrow stalks with French Polish
One of the reasons we typically consult an objective source for our practices of divination is the ease with which our personal ego can often enter into our interpretation.
We use a specific discipline and set of tools to avoid the kind of confusion that results from purely subjective readings. This way we get ourselves, as oracular agents, right out of the picture so that the accuracy of the message will be more apparent to the inquirer.
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To this purpose it is a matter of making a ‘good show of it’ thatwe have the best, evocative tools at our disposal. I provide Yarrow stalks and ‘staves’ (or reference dice):
Wood Staves imprinted with Yin, Yang, Old Yin, Old Yang Lines
to make the process of consultation flow, to maintain a meditative atmosphere that is the preferred process of counting the stalks to determine the lines- Yin, Yang, Old Yin and Old Yang.
Years ago I was learning the many faces of the I Ching, and in the appendices the description of the Yarrow Stalk oracle caught my imagination. I later found them growing in a vacamt lot in Austin, and I thought it would be wonderful to cultivate and offer the stalks to others. It was many years before this was possible, but the widespread use of the Internet for commerce finally came about, and so the time had come.Years ago I was learning the many faces of the I Ching, and in the appendices the description of the Yarrow Stalk oracle caught my imagination. I later found Yarrow growing in a vacant lot in Austin, and I thought it would be wonderful to cultivate and offer the stalks to others. It was many years before this was possible, but the widespread use of the Internet for commerce finally came about, and so the time had come. I planted a substantial bed by our house behind some Rock Rose, so the weedy appearance wouldn’t attract the ire of the neighborhood, but if I had my way I’d replace the whole lawn with Yarrow!
