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Ever wondered why two great I Ching masters saw totally different results using divination for investing? This piece breaks down the critical causal relevance factor.
Many use traditional divination to guide investments. Why did master Wei Qianli suffer heavy losses twice in stock trading, while Takashima Shigeo accurately predicted a major turning point in the raw silk market in 1882 and rose to fame?
Part 1: Two Top Masters, Opposite Investment Results
In a previous post, I analyzed Wei Qianli’s failed stock investments guided by divination. The core reason is simple. As an ordinary retail investor, Wei Qianli shared far weaker causal relevance with stock markets compared with major shareholders, investment groups and big traders.Causal relevance is one major framework within metaphysical studies. The other framework tracks universal energy. New readers can check our earlier post about the common misunderstanding of life luck and feng shui over the past two hundred years. Low relevance directly lowered his divination accuracy and led to losses.
So who used divination correctly for investments?Takashima Shigeo (1832-1914) was the most influential I Ching scholar in Japan’s Meiji era, widely known for his precise divination work.Both men were top tier I Ching practitioners of their time. Yet one grew poorer with each divination, and the other grew richer.
Let us look at Takashima’s story starting in Edo in 1855.He worked as a timber merchant with a decent reputation but was not yet wealthy. He cast a hexagram that signaled massive earth movement followed by large scale reconstruction.He made a bold move and stockpiled huge amounts of timber in advance. In October the same year, the Ansei Earthquake struck Edo. Most buildings collapsed, creating an explosive demand for reconstruction materials. Timber prices soared. Takashima sold his stock at several times the original cost and earned his first major fortune.
We need to think about one key point. Why could he turn the divination result into real profit?Most people would do nothing even with the same hexagram.The answer is his professional background as a timber merchant.He knew exactly what types of timber reconstruction projects needed, where to source supplies fast, how much inventory to hold and when to sell.The hexagram pointed out the general trend. A major earthquake would happen and reconstruction would follow.
Two key factors led to Takashima’s success.First, his divination predicted a major shift in universal energy, the earthquake itself. Predicting natural energy trends is a strength of metaphysical practices. The strong causal link between this natural event and his business ensured high accuracy.Second, he used his professional knowledge of the timber trade to act on the prediction and make profits.
Part 2: Why His Raw Silk Market Divinations Worked
Takashima’s I Ching Judgments records many hexagram readings about raw silk market prices. His predictions for silk merchants in Yokohama proved highly reliable.
One detail often gets overlooked. He cast these hexagrams for other merchants, and never invested heavily in raw silk himself.The people who made huge profits from raw silk trading were long time industry insiders such as Tanaka Hei and Hara Zensaburo. They maintained deep real world connections with the market. Takashima did not hold such connections, so he never joined the trade as a direct investor. He was a merchant himself, and could have easily entered the profitable silk business if his readings worked perfectly for personal investment. He chose not to.
Takashima did not clearly state the rule of causal relevance in his writings, yet his methods naturally followed this underlying logic. His raw silk market divinations achieved great success.
Comparing Takashima Shigeo and Wei Qianli helps us define the rule of causal relevance clearly.The accuracy of I Ching divination and all judgment systems is directly proportional to the causal relevance between the reader and the target matter.
Divination for fully competitive markets without oligopoly controlRetail investors can maintain decent relevance here. No single big player dominates the whole market. Industry insiders get reliable divination results.Takashima’s readings for raw silk merchants are a typical example. Raw silk prices are driven by supply, demand, weather and overseas orders. Divination can sense the overall market momentum. The merchants held strong relevance to the trade and asked Takashima for readings, forming a clear causal link. Accuracy stays high.
Divination for stock marketsPolicy makers, major shareholders, core management, fund managers and big traders hold far stronger relevance than retail investors.Wei Qianli’s two failed stock investments serve as proof. Accuracy stays low for ordinary retail traders.
Divination for energy trends such as natural timing and geographic conditionsUse predictions of universal energy shifts to guide business decisions related to your industry. Takashima’s earthquake prediction and timber investment is the classic case. Accuracy stays high.
After studying these two cases, feel free to share in comments which modern investment areas can benefit from divination to improve your winning rate.
Your divination’s predictive power hinges on your real-world connection to the market. Keep this rule in mind before betting capital based on hexagrams.