The Plum Blossom method of I Ching divination uses the moment itself as the oracle. No coins, no yarrow stalks — just the time, the circumstances, and the question.
You take the hour, the day, the month, the year. You divide. The numbers become trigrams. The trigrams become a hexagram. The hexagram speaks.
Hexagram 11, Tai, is Earth above Heaven. The creative force rises while the receptive descends to meet it. Everything flows. This is the hexagram of spring.
What drew me to Plum Blossom over other I Ching methods is the directness. There’s no randomness to hide behind. The reading comes from this exact moment — the assumption being that the moment you ask is itself the answer.
An auspicious beginning.