I Ching guide
Background to the oracle: how the book works, how to consult it and what sets the methods apart.
- What is the I Ching? The Book of Changes explainedThe I Ching is China's oldest wisdom book: 64 hexagrams about change. Learn what the book is, how a consultation works, and what it can and cannot tell you.
- How to Consult the I ChingLearn how to consult the I Ching step by step: asking an open question, casting six lines, reading judgment and image, and working with changing lines.
- The yarrow stalk oracle: the oldest way to consult the I ChingLearn how the yarrow stalk oracle works: fifty stalks, three countings per line, the classical probabilities, and how to cast the stalks online.
- Coins or yarrow stalks: how do you cast the I Ching?Coins or yarrow stalks for the I Ching? Compare the two probability distributions, see what the difference means in practice and pick the method that fits you.
- Changing lines and the second hexagramLearn how old yin and old yang activate the line texts and why the second hexagram shows the direction of your situation, not a second prediction.
- The Eight Trigrams: The Alphabet of the I ChingMeet the eight trigrams of the I Ching: eight images from nature that together form all sixty-four hexagrams, and learn how to recognize them in a reading.
- Can the I Ching answer yes or no?The I Ching gives no bare yes or no, but a picture of your situation and its direction. Learn to reframe a closed question and read the judgment.
- How to calculate your I Ching hexagramFrom throw to hexagram: learn the line values 6, 7, 8 and 9, build from the bottom up, read the two trigrams and find the correct King Wen number.
- The I Ching and Jung: synchronicityCarl Gustav Jung wrote the foreword to the 1950 I Ching translation and named its principle synchronicity: meaningful coincidence. What did he mean by it?
- A daily I Ching cast: the oracle as a morning ritualOne cast each morning, without a question: the hexagram as the theme of your day. On the yarrow ritual as a pause, the journal as memory, and the weekly review.