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Chinese Astrology Book: Negotiate your Destiny...
A free treaty on Chinese Astrology... |
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"Non Lucet Omnibus!" Hulysse de Lemme exclaimed,
PRELUDE The first one of our family to use the Great Game was Hulysse Lemme. He was already practicing 'prognostication', as he used to say, with a chessboard of twelve boxes, and was trying hard, for each person, to define the value of each box. He believed wholeheartedly in the cycles of twelve years (probably because of the periodicity of the planet Jupiter) and he associated each year with one of the twelve boxes. Complex rules then enabled him to calculate a grade for each box. On the basis of these grades, he felt capable of dealing with the future and of putting hypotheses forward.
But his technique was complex and he would have preferred to be able to allocate a year to a box more quickly.
Anxious to compare his ideas with his Arab colleagues' ones, he left for the East, which was courageous of him, in these troubled times. He was aware that Arabs were great travelers and knew a lot of things. Strangely enough, he learned Chinese Astrology from Arabs....
Near Jerusalem, he followed a merchant who had to resigned himself to the presence of this kind and curious frog eater: Hulysse stayed many years with his host. One day, he was overjoyed when Y. ben Talamouk gave away to him at last the notion of lunar months, and taught him how to associate each box with a month. Y. ben Talamouk used to led his caravans on the borders of the Himalayas and had gleaned there interesting notions... Another day, during a trip in Bactriane, he made Hulysse understand the reality of the twelve equal hours and showed him how to associate them with a box. Hulysse then extracted from him the mysteries of the division of Life into twelve decades during an expedition in the Indhu Kouch. Progressively, throughout evenings under a twinkling sky, Y. ben Talamouk explained how to place stars in each box, which makes the grading of the boxes easier, thanks to the infinite richness of the symbolic associations.
© Delemme 1990-2012
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