HowtoConsulttheIChing?

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An ancient method for casting an I Ching reading involved a relatively laborious process of sorting fifty stem stalks of the yarrow plant. A more modern method uses a series of coin tosses using three identical coins (copper pennies will work) with an identifiable heads and tails. In each case, the process is done six times, with each outcome producing one line of the hexagram. Like a building, the hexagram is assembled from the ground up, bottom line being considered the first line in the text interpretations.
A much easier
1. Remember to stay focused on your dilemma or subject or question when casting.
2. Hold the coins loosely in your hands, shake them briefly, and
then toss them, all the while contemplating your query. The line
you record is determined by assigning numerical values to heads and
tails, then adding the total. Each heads is a 3, and each tails is
a 2.
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3. Collect the coins and toss another five times, recording the numerical values and the corresponding line each time, building your six-line hexagram from the bottom up.
The hexagram you’ve just created can be called your “present hexagram.” In order to produce a “future hexagram,” just change all the lines marked with an ‘x’ or an ‘o’ into their opposite. Any broken lines (Yin) marked with an ‘x’ flip into their opposite—a solid line (Yang)—and solid Yang lines marked with an ‘o’ turn into the broken Yin lines.
The I Ching means “Book of Changes” in Chinese and is all about
Change, which is always happening, which is the one constant in
life. If you get
Once you have identified your present—and, possibly,
future—hexagrams, use our Hexagram Identification
Chart to locate the hexagram numbers and click through to read
the interpretation, considering
Alternate I Ching Books and References
The Visionary I Ching, by Paul O’Brien, is a masterful adaptation complete with an original evocative painting for each of the 64 chapters, or hexagrams. The text upgrades the ancient oracle’s traditional patriarchal and militarist language, while carefully preserving the essence of its strategic decision-making wisdom. The I Ching text on this site is now available in eBook form. Find out more and get your copy today!
The many I Ching books on the market today offer an assortment of interpretations to choose from. Some translators have modernized the text, removing gender bias and archaic language. Others have elaborated on the explanations, and only roughly paraphrase the original text. There is a range of quality in translations. Although the Wilhelm/Baynes version by Princeton Press, with its forward by Carl Junghttp://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwdivination-20&l=as2&o=1&a=069109750X, is the most famous, it is tainted by the politics of the 19th century and tends to be slightly Germanic (it was translated into English from German, which was the original language of translation from the ancient Chinese). It has faithfully preserved the militarism and sexism of patriarchal China going back to the time of Confucius and before, which can be confusing. Another version that is also faithful to the original Chinese, but far easier to digest, is The Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation by the Taoist Master Alfred Huanghttp://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwdivination-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0892811455, a modern I Ching scholar from Shanghai.