The Art of Divination

Among the Daoist schools, there is one devoted exclusively to divination. Its practitioners focus on divination and numerology, using the Qimen Dunjia arts, Liu Ren and Liu Yao methods, fate reading, physiognomy, feng shui, and the observation of clouds and qi to predict fortune and misfortune. In the third year after my younger sister disappeared, news of her suddenly surfaced: she had turned up in Pingcheng, more than a thousand kilometers from where we lived. I set out alone to bring her home. Before I left, my old uncle cast a divination for me…