@PdStelle @Gmuli Thanks for offering your perspectives! And Gmuli, thanks also for outlining why it's not good to do divination for questions you're sure about. I really like how you structured your reasoning.
Will probably need to tone down my daily divinations despite being pretty accurate/insightful thus far. What are the rare situations that this can become dangerous? No need to respond if it's too many to list out. Just curious.
Also, if you don't mind explaining, what's the difference between doing a daily divination vs. doing a daily destiny-read (e.g., Bazi day pillar or ZWDS daily Dou Jun)? And does your response about daily divination also apply to doing daily destiny-reading (i.e., you can, but there's no real need to do daily or even monthly bazi reads)?
From what I know in some of the dynasties centuries back, they were asking 20-30 questions for each situation, trying to map it out from all different points of view.. Each questions would change some variable in it, until all can be followed and figured out. Sometimes I do that as well, although rarely, since its not like I have wars to decide or something like that...
Even so, I have to mention that I do ask a lot... I'm also saving most of it and reviewing when there is a doubt in a specific rule.
Why asking so much... There are a few reasons for that... Mostly it is to learn the mechanic of how the system works. As good information for the rules and mechanics seems much more difficult to come by then most western systems, it seems it falls to us to figure it out from the ground up. And if we want to do that we need to have as many examples and rules as a whole schools with many decades of gathering examples otherwise would have... And that requires a lot of questions. Todays world with www and everything else provides enough material...
The dangers connected to it... Well, there are a lot in my view. Some more then others. Will list a few.
It can make our relations to the system mechanical. Initially, most people easily form a relation to the system as communication with something sacred and if that is kept alive reading the answers is easier.
If we ask very often that may be harder to keep alive, it is up to us to figure out how and if we want it to be there.
In my experience even if we ask a lot that comes back when the questions are important enough.
The more emotionally charged the question is, the easier it is to read. That is lost in non important questions and that can give the impression system doesn't work.A lot of our attention/energy is already in the situation, thinking about it, living through it etc. So then the lines are very easy to read, we just look at it and it falls into what we already know.
Asking situations that are everyday casual events doesn't have that, so there is usually some effort to see the situation in depth, as we have been doing many of those mechanically. So its a way of rethinking events that we are very familiar with, can be useful, but also much harder to read.
There are a few others...
Can make the system addictive for example. Or can mess up our individual choices. Or it may become tempting to transfer the responsibility of our decisions to the system and forget all these are our decisions as far as the whole world around us is concerned, and it will hold us responsible for them, even if we do not.
However, much of that can happen if we ask only for important events as well not to mention to some degree it can show up in many other things from religions to scientific discoveries.
Overall, asking for everything we can think of(more or less) is risky. I am doing it, though, and asking about each day is not that much in comparison...
In my view the main problem if we ask too much is that there is a spark in it all that may be lost. However, if we know what we are doing it will come back when we need it again.
The system will keep working with or without it.
Asking about each day.. I can think of some potential problems with that, most of them can be solved if you don't read the daily hexagram until the end of the day when you are already aware of the events. In any case I did ask like that everyday for a really long time and I'm happy I did. So you will sort it out with time, if you feel its helpful for connecting to the system you shouldn't stop in my view. Whatever problems may arise will solve with time.
BaZi or similar system in my view should be the same rules, but I haven't been focusing on BaZi as much lately and even less on ZWDS , so probably shouldn't comment on it in depth.
However for QMDj for example, I wouldn't ask a lot. As I don't know enough about the system for that to be beneficial, it will just push away if I do at this point. Have to find the right timing/knowledge/experience for it to be beneficial and not exhausting. : )
All is just my point of view of course.
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