Mimi Young 2025-11-03 Mimi Young 2025-11-03

Before AI, There Was Divination

The I Ching and the Search Engines as Parallel Languages of Knowing

Long before the I Ching (the Book of Changes) was read as a cornerstone of Confucian ethics, it was used as a practical, inspirited / ensouled / necromantic method for decision making. People cast yarrow stalks or coins, recorded six lines, each either solid (Yang) or broken (Yin), and read the resulting hexagram as a snapshot of how conditions were moving. According to archaeological evidence, early hexagram divination served to consult the dead and other spirits. Over time, it became a way to study how the universe’s force also called the Way (Dao) behaves in order to determine one’s proper place within that larger order, and thereby avert catastrophe, make strategic decisions, or garner good fortune. (And if you’re looking to learn i ching onlin e, this is the approach we’ll study: practical, animist, and strategic).

ABOUT MIMI

Hello! My name is Mimi Young, and I’m a Taiwanese Canadian animist spirit medium, occultist, and the founder of Ceremonie, servicing Los Angeles to New York and Vancouver to Toronto, teaching occult studies, as well as providing dream interpretations and spirit guidance services. Being an inheritor of Gongfu Tea and trained artist-designer, my work also incorporates the esoteric art of Tea and culture.

My mystery school combines animist folk magic with Taoist principles, offering occult courses on light and shadow spell work, divination (including cartomancy, the I Ching, and Chinese astrology), psychic development, necromancy, and witches retreats. I also operate an online magic shop carrying handcrafted magic supplies and ritual tools, including conjure oils, ritual incense, and Aura Mists to aid in protection spells, money spells, and return to sender (to name a few). Ceremonie’s Skin Care line is designed with occult science principles to enhance psychic sensitivities while leaving your skin moisturized, balanced and radiant.

I collaborate with brands such as goop and the Salem Witch Festival, and am also a poet, SEO copywriter and business strategist, and stylist. Based in Vancouver on the ancestral traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, Ceremonie gratefully serves a global community, while remaining rooted in animist, decolonizing perspectives and intersectionality.

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