The I Ching, for today

The I Ching, ancient wisdom for today

The Book of Changes is three thousand years old and it's about the same thing you are: what to do when everything is moving. Ask your question, toss the coins, and read the answer in two voices, the practical and the poetic.

Ask a question What the I Ching is

Hexagram of this hour Hexagram 1 Activity The Creative The creative principle. Activity. New beginnings, flourishing, and the qualities you need to carry any undertaking or project through to success.

The plum blossom method forms it from the Chinese double hour you arrive in: it changes every two hours and is the same for everyone at that hour. For an answer of your own, make your own cast.

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Explore the Book of Changes

Toss the coins

Ask your question and toss three coins six times, in ink, 2D or 3D. The reading stays on your device.

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The 64 hexagrams

Every situation in a practical and a poetic voice, with its six lines and the Chinese text.

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4,032 transformations

Every hexagram with its moving lines and the hexagram it turns into, explained case by case.

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The eight trigrams

Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Water, Mountain, Wind, Fire and Lake: the pieces of everything.

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What the I Ching is, how to consult it and how to read the lines that change.

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Glossary

Yin, yang, moving line, resulting hexagram: the words, plainly.

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All 64 at a glance

Each hexagram is one trigram over another. Find the upper one in the column and the lower one in the row.

Above → Below ↓	Heaven	Lake	Fire	Thunder	Wind	Water	Mountain	Earth
Heaven	1	43	14	34	9	5	26	11
Lake	10	58	38	54	61	60	41	19
Fire	13	49	30	55	37	63	22	36
Thunder	25	17	21	51	42	3	27	24
Wind	44	28	50	32	57	48	18	46
Water	6	47	64	40	59	29	4	7
Mountain	33	31	56	62	53	39	52	15
Earth	12	45	35	16	20	8	23	2

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Getting started

What Is the I Ching? The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is a Chinese classic of 64 hexagrams for reflecting on where you stand. What it is, how it works and how to begin. The History of the I Ching The history of the I Ching as tradition tells it (Fu Xi, King Wen, Confucius) and as scholars see it: a Zhou core, the Ten Wings, the Mawangdui silk text. How to Ask a Question How to ask the I Ching a question: open questions rather than yes or no, one question per cast, and when it's better not to ask. With examples.