The I Ching, which contains the wisdom of our Chinese ancestors, states that the movement of celestial bodies, the waxing and waning of yin and yang, the life and death of all things, and the natural laws governing human life, aging, illness, and death—as well as the shifts between fortune and misfortune—are all hidden within the logic of the hexagrams.
The Eight Trigrams are distributed across the four cardinal directions, and the sixty-four hexagrams are mapped onto the three hundred and sixty degrees of the celestial sphere. These sixty-four hexagrams can calculate the subtle laws governing the birth and destruction of all things with precision.
Ji Wushuang employed a method of reverse deduction, starting from the twenty-eight mansions and working backward to the sixty-four hexagrams. By calculating just one ring, she could derive a wealth of information regarding how Chen Xuan might avoid his impending calamity. However, as an outsider, Chen Xuan could not decipher the hexagrams displayed on the Celestial Mechanism Disk and had to wait for Ji Wushuang to explain them once the divination was complete.
Chapter 1656