Consult the I Ching by tossing three coins six times, or with the yarrow-stalk probabilities, and see the hexagram, the changing lines and the resulting hexagram.
The I Ching (Yijing, the Book of Changes) is one of the oldest texts of China. Its core, the Zhouyi, was composed in the Western Zhou dynasty, around the 9th century BCE according to many scholars, and consists of 64 hexagrams: figures of six lines, each solid (yang) or broken (yin). Each hexagram has a judgment, an image and six line texts, plus an extra text for hexagrams 1 and 2 when all lines change. The order used here is the traditional sequence attributed to King Wen, in which the hexagrams come in 32 pairs: the second of each pair is the first turned upside down or, for the four pairs of hexagrams that do not change when turned (1-2, 27-28, 29-30 and 61-62), with yin and yang swapped. Each line is cast with three coins: heads counts 3 and tails counts 2, and the sum gives 6, 7, 8 or 9. Sums 7 and 8 are stable lines; 6 (changing yin) and 9 (changing yang) turn into their opposite and produce the resulting hexagram. With coins, the probabilities are 1/8, 3/8, 3/8 and 1/8 for 6, 7, 8 and 9. The yarrow stalks, an older and slower method, give 1/16, 5/16, 7/16 and 3/16: changing yang (9) comes up three times as often as changing yin (6). In both methods each line changes with a 1 in 4 chance, so about 82% of casts have at least one changing line and only 17.8% (729 in 4,096) have none. There are 4,096 combinations of six lines, that is, 64 hexagrams times 64 possible resulting ones. The texts in this tool are original summaries of the judgment, the image and each line, written in English and Portuguese. The best-known modern translations, such as Wilhelm and Baynes, are under copyright and were not used; James Legge's 1882 translation is in the public domain and serves as a historical reference. That is why the text here is a reading guide, not a translation. When several lines change, traditions differ on which texts to prioritize. The I Ching is for reflecting on a question; it does not predict the future or replace medical, legal or financial advice.
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It is a Chinese classic of divination and philosophy with 64 hexagrams, figures of six solid or broken lines. Its core, the Zhouyi, comes from the Western Zhou dynasty (around the 9th century BCE). Each hexagram has a judgment, an image and six line texts.
Each line comes from three coins (heads 3, tails 2). Sum 6: 12.5%. Sum 7: 37.5%. Sum 8: 37.5%. Sum 9: 12.5%.
Set the value of each line, from the base (line 1) to the top (line 6): 6 and 9 are changing, 7 and 8 are stable.
The cast happens in your browser; nothing is sent to servers. The cast link carries only the six line values, never your question.