Real Divination Examples

A daughter runs away, hexagram Pure Gen

A daughter had been gone from home for over half a month with no word; the parents asked where she was and whether she …

A daughter wanders through rivers, mountains, and temples — Li transforming into Bi

A 17-year-old daughter ran away in anger; the parents asked whether she was alive and when she would return.

Lovers' quarrel leads to departure — Cui transforming into Pi

After a quarrel, a girlfriend left in anger and was gone for over 20 days. The questioner asked where she was and wheth…

An 80-year-old man gets lost — Jia Ren hexagram

An old man over 80 went out for a walk and got lost in Shenzhen; the panicked family came for a reading.

Two girls suddenly run away (Da Xu hexagram, Dec 1989)

Two families whose daughters had run away for several days had searched everywhere without finding them; they asked to …

His son has been gone for 9 days (Cui→Kun, July 1990)

A father's son had been gone for 9 days with no sign and could not be found. The hexagram cast was Cui transforming int…

He is in a temple to the southeast (Yi→Guan, August 1990)

Mr. Wang from the Xi'an municipal sub-bureau came for a reading to find his missing nephew. The hexagram cast was Yi tr…

Where is little Thuong Ho now? (Da Zhuang→Heng, March 1988)

Little Thuong Ho had been kidnapped, drawing nationwide concern. The hexagram was cast based on the time the missing-ch…

Granddaughter Thien Kim is kidnapped (Yi→Zhun, October 1988)

Thien Kim, daughter of Mr. Phung Bat Can in Kaifeng, had been kidnapped for nearly two months and the family had ruined…

An infant lured away in Guangzhou (Heng→Xie, February 1989)

A child not yet two years old went from the countryside to Guangzhou for medical treatment and was abducted by traffick…

Dr. Han's two-year-old goes missing (Yi→Yu, October 1989)

Dr. Han at the 4th Military Medical University in Xi'an had a 2-year-old child who went shopping with the mother and wa…

Mrs. Dam travels a thousand miles for her nephew (Gou→Song, December 1989)

Mrs. Dam's younger brother was in prison, and his 3-year-old child had been kidnapped. Mrs. Dam twice travelled to Xi'a…

He has been found! (Ding, no transformation, February 1990)

Mr. Vuong Tuong from Chu Tien Chan village, Kaifeng, had a son who was kidnapped at noon on the 8th of the 2nd lunar mo…

Where did the missing granddaughter go? (Jie→Fu, March 1990)

Mr. Ho, at a factory in the eastern outskirts of Xi'an, had a granddaughter who went missing at the market on 6 March. …

Searched everywhere with no result (Wei Ji→Xie, March 1988)

A colleague, Mr. Truong, had quarreled with his supervisor and disappeared for more than a month; staff sent across the…

Unable to find his son anywhere (Lin→Fu, February 1989)

Mr. Tran in Foshan, Guangdong, had a 15- or 16-year-old son who disappeared without reason. Searches everywhere yielded…

His niece has been gone nearly three years (Ding→Da You, 1989)

Mr. Au in Guangzhou had a niece who came from the countryside to visit; one day she went out and did not return. Almost…

The child will never return (Dun→Tong Ren, July 1985)

Someone asked whether the direction the child had taken was favorable. The hexagram cast was Dun transforming into Tong…

He sent his parents a letter telling them not to look (Bo→Jin, April 1989)

Mr. Khuong from Hubei left home; over four months of searching produced no news. The employer came to Xi'an for a readi…

The driver and the car were robbed (Da Zhuang→Guai, February 1989)

Mr. Vuong's younger sister in Kunming, Yunnan, was a taxi driver who went out to work and did not return; the seat of h…

Ran away over a marriage, then arrested (Ming Yi→Fu, July 1989)

Mr. Truong's younger brother in Lanzhou, Gansu, ran away because he was unhappy with his marriage. Two months of search…

Detained — return is unlikely (Wu Wang→Jin, October 1989)

Mr. Lam in Xi'an had an older brother who had left in 1987 and not returned in over three years; he asked whether the b…

Unlikely to still be alive (Dui, no transformation, October 1989)

Mr. Trieu in Zhengzhou, Henan, had a 3-year-old son who was kidnapped in October 1987. After two years of fruitless sea…

Greed costs the driver his life (Jia Ren→Yi, October 1989)

A driver from the Xi'an Tourism Bureau, hoping to get rich fast, took a chance trafficking antiques. En route he was ki…

Snatched in broad daylight (Cui→Pi, December 1988)

Mr. Du in Tai'an, Shandong, had a 12-year-old son who was playing outside at noon in December 1988 when criminals snatc…