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Read about Yes or No
About this reading: Yes-or-no readings are a simple format where a question gets answered with either YES or NO. This page's version is this site's own entertainment feature, modeled on the idea of pendulum dowsing, in which a swinging pendulum is said to reveal an answer from the subconscious. With no complicated input required, it suits moments when you just want a light nudge for how you're already feeling.
Dowsing with a pendulum has one of its roots in medieval Europe, where it was used to search for water and ore, and only later came to be framed as a way of asking the subconscious a question. As we see it here, the real reason yes-or-no readings still get reached for isn't accuracy so much as what they reveal in the instant the answer lands — which side you were secretly hoping for. Your own reaction the moment the answer appears may be the truer answer.
Lore column: Hearing Your Answer in a Stranger's Voice at a Dusky Crossroads: The Lore of Tsujiura
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
Pose a question, and receive the answer from outside yourself. One of the oldest forms of this is tsujiura, crossroads divination. You stood at a crossroads or fork in the road at dusk and took the first words spoken by whoever happened to pass as the gods' answer, judging good or ill fortune from them. The Man'yōshū is said to contain poems about yūke, the version performed in the evening. It was believed that the will of the dōsojin, the guardian gods of roads, arrived through the mouths of strangers.
The person divining is said to have held a comb of tsuge (boxwood) and recited a charm while standing at the crossroads, a pun on tsuge and tsuge, "to tell." There was also hashiura, the same kind of divination at the foot of a bridge; the Genpei Jōsuiki records that when Kenreimon-in was about to give birth, her mother Nii-dono performed hashiura at Ichijō Modoribashi in Kyoto. In later centuries came tsujiura peddlers selling slips of paper printed with fortunes, and even rice crackers with fortunes baked inside.
As we see it here, the fear and the fascination of tsujiura lie in the fact that the answer comes from someone whose face you cannot see. This is our own conjecture, but crossroads and bridges, as boundaries, were also thought of as places where this world and the other touch, and there was no way to be sure whether the voice you heard there belonged to a living person or to something else. The flutter of that moment as you wait on a screen for YES or NO may be distantly tied to the tension of people long ago, waiting at a dim crossroads for the next footsteps.
Yes or No
Enter a question and get YES, NO, or Not Yet. An original entertainment feature of this site, modeled on pendulum dowsing.
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