The 3rd Art: Pu (命) - Life (Divination or Prediction) - from Chinese Metaphysics called Wu Shu (五 术) or the Five Arts. This Art is the study of "Fortune Telling" using Numerical Analysis.
The Key cultural study 3rd Art areas depicted in the image above:
Art Destiny Analysis Ming (or Fate) is apparently different from the 3rd Art Pu or Prediction, as well as the 5th Art of Forms. All three typically require tools and a mathematical facility, but the end purposes diverge somewhat.
In 5th Art Feng Shui they use the the luopan or geomantic compass. Like a conventional compass, a luopan is a direction finder. However, a luopan differs from a compass in several important ways. The most obvious difference is the Feng Shui formulas embedded in up to 40 concentric rings on the surface of a metal or wooden plate known as the heaven dial. The circular metal or wooden plate typically sits on a wooden base known as the earth plate. The heaven dial rotates freely on the earth plate. Unlike a typical compass, a luopan does not point to the north magnetic pole of Earth. The needle of a luopan points to the south magnetic pole (it does not point to the geographic south pole). The Chinese word for compass translates to “south-pointing needle.”
In the 5th art there are several other tools - depicted is a spoonlike sundial-looking calculator and two "Cosmic" divining board charts, one traditional and the other modern. Yes - there is now a cell phone app for this Art!
While I believe in the interconnectedness of the Universe and know there are many, many things beyond our current understanding, I'm skeptical about predicting the future via these methods. The obvious application would be to amass wealth and/or avoid difficult life situations and I see very little proof of that this is possible. The promises of this ability are a temptation for paying customers, but I think there are better approaches to Pu, or Life divinations.
I don't care if a belief system is "scientific" by modern standards, but I do need personal affirmation and credible repeatability. To me and our TTI community, tarot and oracles divine information from our subconscious as well as non-mortal energy beings that exist in a multi-dimensional space-time continuum that has Reality borders. One of those borders is the Now.
In my LHP belief system the Future is unwritten and we write it with our actions.
That being said, I find the historic study of Chinese fortune telling very interesting. This area also overlaps with other Arts in a very confusing way.
Additionally, there is a popular aspect of the 4th Art (not depicted in the image above) that I find very useful. To TTI, it gives advice like tarot via interconnectedness ... The I-Ching with its' 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams.
However, there is MUCH more to the 3rd Art - for example the Three Styles (三式; sānshì; 'three styles') of divination. They make use of the 8 trigrams and the 64 hexagrams as a foundation:
1 - Tai Yi Shen Shu
3- Da Liu Ren
The Sage Li Yang describes Da Liu Ren as the highest form of divination in China.
I imaged books on the Three Styles by Dr. Ong Hean Tatt, Ph.D. because he has done an excellent job of explaining Chinese cultural concepts in English. He is business minded like Joey Jap, but IMO not as mass market pandering.
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