New to Liu Yao

[Balthazar]

Hi There,

This is my first post so greetings to all! I am new to WWG/Lui Yao. I have been focussing on Mei Hua for a while but recently decided to take the plunge into Liu Yao. I won't lie - I am a bit overwhelmed. I have the books by Jack Chiu, Vincent Koh, Raymond Lo and Dr Wang Yang and terminology between them all varies wildly so its been difficult to get much traction  . Jack Chiu’s book looks the most complete but it’s proving to be a lot harder to make sense of what is going in in there because he seems to have chosen an entirely new lexicon, compared to the other books.

I am going to keep chipping away at it however!

I guess my first question would be - what is the most basic foundational element I need to focus on to get my foot in the door when it comes to analysis? Creating the Hexagram and labelling it etc. is easy enough but I am trying to find my way establishing some sort of framework for interpreting what I see there.

Where to start?

Thanks!
Balthazar

[Gmuli]

Hi.
Check around the forum, a lot of material during the years.
We have some sources in English mentioned here:
http://fivearts.org/index.php?topic=687.0

Where to start... I can recommend Self line and Focus.
If you ask for yourself, try to get a feeling what it means Self line is strong or weak.
It isn't exactly "sure win", it seems to be more about being free to choose in the situation. Will see, anyway.

And Focus(Yong Shen, Useful God etc.) is the other thing we can be sure in the question. Its relation to you - also very useful to know. So if you ask about your boss, Officers relation to you and how strong it is etc.

Starting with these 2 is a nice idea, in my humble opinion.

[Balthazar]

Hi Gmuli,

Thank you for the pointers re a starting point. Very helpful. Will also look around the forum to see what I can learn to help me get started.

Appreciatively,
B