Episode 75

The first in a new series of episodes wherein Juliet and I begin by jointly consulting the I Ching (ancient Chinese oracle), getting hexagram 4 "Youthful Folly", and then see where that goes. We discuss the "fool" archetype and its variants, particularly as it shows up in the Tarot, and then move on to the speculative mechanics of how the I Ching and other oracles might work (if indeed they do).

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Some relevant links:

• I Ching
• the sixty-four hexagrams
• the eight trigrams
• hexagram 4: "youthful folly"
• Richard Wilhelm
• Tarot
• Richard Wilhelm
• The Fool (Tarot card)
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson and Bob Shea)
• Gong
• the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy (Gong albums)
• the trickster archetype
• Laszlo (a.k.a. Humble Pious)
• the Torah
• yarrow
• the yarrow stalks method of consulting the I Ching
• Ouija board
• pendulum dowsing
• oracles and divination
• Yahweh and the burning bush
• South American maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)