The traditional "qaballah of nine chambers" is actually a compendium of 27 numerical slots to which 22 Hebrew letters are aligned with 5 letters doubling as "finals" to meet the total. No matter how you slice the deck, 22 will never fit very neatly into 27, but the traditional system has survived the test of time and this particular arrangement of numbers has also been applied to other languages, most notably Greek, Arabic and English, though any number of languages might be able to be converted to this system. Trigrammaton achieves a degree of resolution between "letters" and numbers unparalleled by any other means since its 27 characters exactly match the 27 numerical slots from 1-900. Since it is a true elemental Geomancy, any of its characters can be divined using one or another random-number generators geared to its mathematical parameters. Various systems have been employed to accommodate this practice historically, including pebbles or stones, stalks or throw-sticks, coins, bones etc.

Unlike the Binary system which only requires a heads or tails kind of reading to deduce a line value, the ternary system requires some method that can yield one of 3 possible outcomes at each pass. I have for some years worked with a system of dice I can recommend with confidence, not so much for its historical authenticity as for its numerical integrity. I use a system of 3 10-sided dice, which can be used both for binary as well as ternary readings. With the binary you simply calculate odds and evens the same as you would using the coin-method for I Ching readings. It's a simple method that assigns a value of 2 to any even number and 3 to any odd, so that your tallies will always be one of four possibilities, 6, 7, 8 or 9, where a 6="running yin", 7=yang, 8=yin, and 9="running yang". On the ternary side you simply add up the total of numbers displayed on the dice and reduce by adding sideways so that your end total always comes in between 1-9. 1-3=Yang, 4-6=Jen, 7-9=Yin. The odds are exactly balanced this way with the exception of 0-0-0 which can either be ignored or else implemented in some other way. It has generally been understood to be the case that running lines do not apply in the ternary system owing to the fact that a "running jen" would still be a jen which would seem to defeat the entire purpose. My feeling is that the verdict is not in yet on that debate and it is in fact possible using this method to calculate running lines on the ternary side if you so choose to do so.

At the time of this writing, on a global scale, there might exist no more than a handful of people who are proficient enough in this kind of knowledge to clearly recognize what a dramatic potential exists with this untried qaballistic standard. We are looking at something here which is nearly as disturbing as it is exhilarating. We have what amounts to a strict elemental language which has apparently been lying face down in the dirt for 2000 years we can be fairly certain of and possibly a lot longer than this. The diagnostic and prognostic potentials are mind-boggling and the numerical alignment couldn't be more perfect if it were built specifically to be the most high-tech form of qaballah ever devised, and yet, what are we to do for actual character interpretations? We have no "judgments" worth much of anything, no "commentaries" to fall back on, and virtually nothing has been invested in the development of this logic over time. We will have to approach it all from scratch, using all available data we can find of relevance to this discussion. Such is the fate of an Hermetic Alchemist at the height of the Kali Yuga. But for the moment, it is sufficient to make note of the fact that such a powerful potential looms and begin the process of piecing it all together...