Learn the I Ching
Casting a hexagram is a mirror, and the more of the Book of Changes you can read, the clearer the mirror gets. Here are a few easy articles and, for each of the sixty-four hexagrams, its meaning and original text.
Beginner articles
How the three-coin method works: three coins, six tosses, one hexagram
The full coin method of casting a hexagram: how three coins are counted, what 6, 7, 8 and 9 mean as lines, why you toss six times from the bottom up, and why old yin and old yang "change".
Read the article →How to read a hexagram: the name, the judgement, the image and the lines
How to read a hexagram once you have one: first the trigrams and the name, then the judgement, the image and the six line texts, and finally turning it into words of your own.
Read the article →The eight trigrams and the sixty-four hexagrams: how a hexagram is built
What picture each of the eight trigrams stands for, why eight times eight makes sixty-four, what the reversed and inverted hexagrams are, and how the Book of Changes divides into its upper and lower parts.
Read the article →Changing lines and the resulting hexagram: what it means when a hexagram "moves"
What to do when you toss an old yin or old yang (a changing line): the original and the resulting hexagram, which sentence to read for one to six changing lines, and what a changing line really means.
Read the article →Before you cast: how to ask a question that helps
How to ask before casting: why a good question is open, about yourself and one at a time, which questions do not belong in a hexagram, and how to use the hexagram in daily life afterwards.
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Cast a hexagram
Three coins, six tosses, one hexagram. She reads the picture and the original text with you, with no verdict of luck and no prediction.
Cast a hexagram