Mura Rinpoche Bonpo Gyurme Chodar

Obstacle Years Divination (lo gcig keg rtsis), (lo gcig keg rtsis)

• The divination of obstacle years (keg rtsis), which forms the content of Part VI, pp. 000-000, is applied to determine the degrees of happiness or suffering which a given subject might experience in the course of a given year within the sexagenary cycle. Forty-seven divinatory pebbles are deployed corresponding to the outer (phyi), inner (nang), and intermediate (bar) calculations, which are respectively made on the basis of the log men year signs, trigrams and numeric squares, along with the secret (gsang) calculation of the sectors of growth and decline, the most secret (yang gsang) calculation of the hours coinciding with the destiny element, the calculation of the multiples of nine (dgu mig) and the tomb sign calculation (dur mig). Among these, some of the combined trigram prognoses correspond directly to the hexagrams of the I Ching, while others are unique to this system. Other more complicated calculations of obstacle years may be made by applying the so-called Chinese method of pebble distribution (rgya nag rdel skor), or the three cycles of sPang rgyan lo ma. GD (from the Glossary to Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings)