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a. From the right-hand pile, take one of the yarrow sticks and hold it in the left hand between the last
two fingers.
b. From the left-hand pile, remove sticks four at a time until there are four or less remaining in the
pile. Place this remainder between the next two fingers of the left hand.
c. Turning now to the right-hand pile repeat the process by removing the sticks four at a time until
there is a remainder of four or less. This remainder is likewise placed between the next two fingers of
the left hand.
d. The 'remainders' collected in the left hand will now total five or nine sticks and are placed together
on the second card.
e. The sticks remaining on the first card are bunched together again and then rapidly separated into
two piles, with the right hand as before.
f. These two piles are then diminished in the same manner as described in instructions (a) to (d),
resulting again in the remaining sticks being held in the left hand. These are then placed on the second
card, being careful not to mix them with the existing pile on this card.
g. Processes (a) to (d) are again repeated, leaving a total of three piles of sticks on the second card.
The possible combinations of sticks on this card will be:
From the number of sticks in each pile one can deduce the nature of the first line of the hexagram
(which as you will remember is the bottom line). The following table correlates the numbers in the
pile with the appropriate hexagram line:
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