It depends on what you want to learn. The twelve zodiac signs are from the West. If you don’t understand the textbooks, you can check them online.
Tarot cards are also Western. You can look at them. There are images of the Pope, the Fool, the Chariot, the God of Death, etc., which are actually a simulation of Western society.
It seems that playing cards are also props used for divination in the West. Clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades represent different things. Clubs are luck, diamonds are diamonds and money, hearts are courage, and spades are What have I forgotten? There is such a saying. Different countries in the West have different opinions. If you have played the game Heroes, there is a lucky clover in it, which looks similar to a plum blossom.
Domestic horoscope fortune telling is mainly based on the analysis of the five elements. The principle is actually derived from astrology and is also used to simulate society. For example, wood creates fire, fire is the child of wood, wood controls earth, earth is the wife and wealth of wood, wood is overcome by metal, metal is the official ghost of wood, wood is born by water, water is the parent of wood; wood and wood have the same attributes, They are brothers. The five elements are divided into yin and yang, which has expanded a lot from the six relatives. I haven’t studied it in depth, so I won’t show my shame.
Book of Changes divination is actually a simulation of society and the world. There are six lines. The top two lines symbolize heaven, the middle two lines symbolize people, and the bottom two lines symbolize earth. The three talents of heaven, earth, and people are included. There are also various correspondences between different lines, simulating the relationship between personnel and what happened. There are several schools now. One of the main popular ones is Da Liu Ren, Huozhu Lin hexagram method, which explains the hexagrams by linking them with the heavenly stems and earthly branches, and also adds gods and evil spirits. Use the explanations of the hexagrams and moving lines themselves and the combination of the five elements and the gods and evil spirits to explain. "Divination Zhengzong" and "Add and Deletion Divination" seem to be of this school. One is the Xiangshu school represented by the Yishu of Plum Blossoms, which also uses the five elements to explain the generation and restraint, as well as the image of the hexagram itself, and adds the five elements of the season to create and restraint. There is also a method that only uses the hexagrams and lines of the Zhouyi itself to explain, and adds hexagram images and hexagram virtues (the attributes of the hexagrams themselves). The Li Yi school. Those who can do academic research in universities now are the Li Yi school, plus some philosophy. Thoughts and the like.
If you are interested in the West, check out the Complete Works of World Life and Destiny written by Gao Shanqing online. It is not detailed, but is an introductory book. When it comes to fortune-telling with eight characters, it is Ziping's fortune-telling technique. Personally, I think the Qianli fortune-telling manuscript written by Wei Qianli is clear and can assist Ziping's fortune-telling technique. The Book of Changes recommends that you find a brief explanation of the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes written by an old man. It is also an introduction to the various schools of the Book of Changes. It is not detailed enough, but it is enough for you to understand various knowledge of the Book of Changes. Hope it's useful to you.