占卜的英文是divination。

divination英[ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃn]美[ˌdɪvəˈneʃən]

n.卜;预言;筮;占卦;

[例句]They're part of an ancient Greek divination ritual.

他们是古希腊占卜仪式的一部分。

These characters were mostly prayers by Shang rulers at divination and sacrificialrites, as well as simple records.

这些文字，大都是商代统治者占卜祭祀时的祝辞和简单记事。

Will time turners or divination come into play in some way again?

也许时间转换器和占卜术又以某种方式发生了作用？

To foretell through or as if through the art of divination.

占卜，预言通过或似通过占卜术预言。

Isn't this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination?

这不是我主人饮酒的杯吗？岂不是他占卜用的吗？

周易算命"Zhouyi Fortune-Telling"

四柱八字或简称八字：Four Pillars of Destiny(Ba Zi)

八卦 The eight trigrams

易经概述：

The I Ching(Wade-Giles), or“Yì Jīng”(Pinyin); also called“Classic of Changes” or“Book of Changes” is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts.[1] The book is a symbol system used to identify order in chance events. The text describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy that is intrinsic to ancient Chinese cultural beliefs. The cosmology centres on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change(see Philosophy, below). In Western cultures and modern East Asia, the I Ching is sometimes regarded as a system of divination. The classic consists of a series of symbols, rules for manipulating these symbols, poems, and commentary.

易经的组成：(易经和易传）

By the time of Han Wu Di(汉武帝 Hàn Wǔ Dì) of the Western Han Dynasty(circa 200 BCE), Shi Yi was often called Yi Zhuan(易传 yì zhùan,“Commentary on the I Ching”), and together with the I Ching they composed Zhou Yi(周易 zhōu yì,“Changes of Zhou”).

易经的名字解释：

*易(yì), while as a verb it implies“to change“ or'to exchange/substitute one thing for another'.

*经(jīng) here means“classic(text)”, derived from its original meaning of“regularity” or“persistency”, implying that the text describes the Ultimate Way which will not change throughout the flow of time. This same character was later appropriated to translate the Sanskrit word'sūtra' into Chinese in reference to Buddhist scripture. In this sense the two concepts, in as much as they mean'treatise,''great teaching,' or'canonical scripture,' are equivalent.

The I Ching is a"reflection of the universe in miniature." The word"I" has three meanings: ease and simplicity, change and transformation, and invariability.[2] Thus the three principles underlying the I Ching are the following:

1. Simplicity- the root of the substance. The fundamental law underlying everything in the universe is utterly plain and simple, no matter how abstruse or complex some things may appear to be.

2. Variability- the use of the substance. Everything in the universe is continually changing. By comprehending this one may realize the importance of flexibility in life and may thus cultivate the proper attitude for dealing with a multiplicity of diverse situations.

3. Persistency- the essence of the substance. While everything in the universe seems to be changing, among the changing tides there is a persistent principle, a central rule, which does not vary with space and time.

—易一名而含三义：易简一也；变易二也；不易三也。 commented on by Zheng Xuan(郑玄 zhèng xúan) in his writings Critique of I Ching(易赞 yì zàn) and Commentary on I Ching(易论 yì lùn) of Eastern Han Dynasty.

四柱：

* The four pillars is an English translation of the Chinese dynastic phrase"Shi Chen Ba Zi".

* The Chinese term(时辰八字, Shi Chen Ba Zi) literally translates to"Hour of the Eight Characters".

* It is also under the Chinese term(四柱命理学, sei cyu ming lei hok) which literally translates to"The Four Pillars Life-ology".

* It is commonly referred to by the shortened names of"Four Pillars" or"Ba Zi". One of the most frequently used alternate phrase is"Four Pillars of your birthday".

八卦:

The Bagua(Chinese:八卦; pinyin: bā guà; Wade-Giles: pa kua; literally"eight symbols") are eight diagrams used in Taoist cosmology to represent a range of interrelated concepts. Each consists of three lines, each either"broken" or"unbroken," representing a yin line or a yang line, respectively. Due to their tripartite structure, they are often referred to as"trigrams" in English.

The trigrams are related to Taiji philosophy and the Wu Xing. The ancient Chinese classic I Ching consists of the 64 pairs of trigrams(called"hexagrams") and commentary on them. The interrelationships among the trigrams are represented in two arrangements, the Primordial(先天八卦),"Earlier Heaven" or"Fuxi" bagua(伏羲八卦), and the Manifested(后天八卦),"Later Heaven," or"King Wen" bagua. The trigrams have correspondances in astronomy, astrology, geography, geomancy, anatomy, the family, and elsewhere.

The eight trigrams are: Qian天,"Heaven;" Xun风,"Wind;" Kan水,"Water;" Gen山,"Mountain;" Kun地,"Earth," Zhen雷"Thunder," Li火,"Fire;" and Dui泽,"Lake."