Divination and Guidance
Does the same written character always produce the same divination answer?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
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The same character does not receive an identical answer every time. Different writers, or one person writing at different times, may have different questions and conditions.
In our approach, meaning and structure combine with written appearance: size, alignment, and how strokes appear. These are understood within the person’s question.
Learning one way to break a character down does not restrict every later reading to it. Consider the text and personal situation together rather than fit a fixed answer to everyone.