Living tradition
I Ching
China, three thousand years ago; the oldest oracle still in use.
Sixty-four hexagrams of whole and broken lines; three coins are thrown six times and the book answers with an image and advice.
How it's done
- 01Ask the question aloud.
- 02Throw three coins six times, bottom to top.
- 03Look up the hexagram and read its changing lines.
With your own tools
Three identical coins and the book; heads count three, tails two.
With Ocluna
I toss the three coins six times for you, line by line, and give you the hexagram, its moving lines and what it changes into. Hold the question before you tap.
Your reading
Master Li Wen does your I Ching reading
What Master Li Wen tells you
- It is the oldest book still consulted: its 64 hexagrams are about three thousand years old and Confucius wrote commentaries on them.
- Leibniz saw a perfect binary system in the hexagrams in 1703; Carl Jung wrote the foreword to the translation that made it famous in the West.
- The ancient method uses fifty yarrow stalks and takes almost half an hour; the three-coin method won out for being quick.
- Carl Jung wrote the foreword to Richard Wilhelm's translation in 1949 and recounted asking the book itself about its publication in the West.
- The 64 hexagrams are formed by combining eight trigrams: Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Water, Mountain, Wind, Fire and Lake.
This reading is symbolic self-knowledge and entertainment content based on folk traditions. It does not predict the future, is not medical, legal or financial advice, and does not replace qualified professionals.