His eyes widened with excitement. Ah, an ancient Chinese practice. There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt in your psychology. He tipped back to an upright position, and pointed a red pickup stick at me. All you have to assume is that there is synchronicity in the universe, that all things are somehow interconnected, that events parallel and reflect each other.
Nothing occurs by coincidence.
If I use the ancient method of shuffling these sticks and randomly dividing them into groups, they form a pattern of even and odd numbers, of yin and yang. And that pattern has a meaning. He held up a book. The 64 hexagrams, the 64 possible outcomes of working the sticks, are all described here, in the I Ching. Each hexagram is a fusion of two images.