Ask a question. Throw six lines.
The I Ching is a three-thousand-year-old book of changes. This edition gives you the received text, a plain-language reading, and a place to think — not a prediction.
How it works
Hold one question. Throw three coins six times. Each throw gives a line: old yin, young yang, young yin, or old yang. The lines build from the bottom up into one of sixty-four hexagrams.
Old lines are moving: they turn into their opposite and produce a second hexagram. The first describes where you are; the second describes where it is heading. The reading shows both, with the exact passages it used.
The sixty-four
- ䷀ 1 乾Qián · The Creative
- ䷁ 2 坤Kūn · The Receptive
- ䷂ 3 屯Zhūn · Difficulty at the Beginning
- ䷃ 4 蒙Méng · Youthful Folly
- ䷄ 5 需Xū · Waiting
- ䷅ 6 訟Sòng · Conflict
- ䷆ 7 師Shī · The Army
- ䷇ 8 比Bǐ · Holding Together
- ䷈ 9 小畜Xiǎo Xù · Small Accumulating
- ䷉ 10 履Lǚ · Treading
- ䷊ 11 泰Tài · Peace
- ䷋ 12 否Pǐ · Standstill
- ䷌ 13 同人Tóng Rén · Fellowship
- ䷍ 14 大有Dà Yǒu · Great Possession
- ䷎ 15 謙Qiān · Modesty
- ䷏ 16 豫Yù · Enthusiasm
- ䷐ 17 隨Suí · Following
- ䷑ 18 蠱Gǔ · Work on the Decayed
- ䷒ 19 臨Lín · Approach
- ䷓ 20 觀Guān · Contemplation
- ䷔ 21 噬嗑Shì Kè · Biting Through
- ䷕ 22 賁Bì · Grace
- ䷖ 23 剝Bō · Splitting Apart
- ䷗ 24 復Fù · Return
- ䷘ 25 无妄Wú Wàng · Innocence
- ䷙ 26 大畜Dà Xù · Great Accumulating
- ䷚ 27 頤Yí · Nourishment
- ䷛ 28 大過Dà Guò · Great Excess
- ䷜ 29 坎Kǎn · The Abysmal
- ䷝ 30 離Lí · The Clinging
- ䷞ 31 咸Xián · Influence
- ䷟ 32 恆Héng · Duration
- ䷠ 33 遯Dùn · Retreat
- ䷡ 34 大壯Dà Zhuàng · Great Power
- ䷢ 35 晉Jìn · Progress
- ䷣ 36 明夷Míng Yí · Darkening of the Light
- ䷤ 37 家人Jiārén · The Family
- ䷥ 38 睽Kuí · Opposition
- ䷦ 39 蹇Jiǎn · Obstruction
- ䷧ 40 解Jiě · Deliverance
- ䷨ 41 損Sǔn · Decrease
- ䷩ 42 益Yì · Increase
- ䷪ 43 夬Guài · Breakthrough
- ䷫ 44 姤Gòu · Coming to Meet
- ䷬ 45 萃Cuì · Gathering Together
- ䷭ 46 升Shēng · Pushing Upward
- ䷮ 47 困Kùn · Exhaustion
- ䷯ 48 井Jǐng · The Well
- ䷰ 49 革Gé · Revolution
- ䷱ 50 鼎Dǐng · The Cauldron
- ䷲ 51 震Zhèn · The Arousing
- ䷳ 52 艮Gèn · Keeping Still
- ䷴ 53 漸Jiàn · Gradual Progress
- ䷵ 54 歸妹Guī Mèi · The Marrying Maiden
- ䷶ 55 豐Fēng · Abundance
- ䷷ 56 旅Lǚ · The Wanderer
- ䷸ 57 巽Xùn · The Gentle
- ䷹ 58 兌Duì · The Joyous
- ䷺ 59 渙Huàn · Dispersion
- ䷻ 60 節Jié · Limitation
- ䷼ 61 中孚Zhōng Fú · Inner Truth
- ䷽ 62 小過Xiǎo Guò · Small Excess
- ䷾ 63 既濟Jì Jì · After Completion
- ䷿ 64 未濟Wèi Jì · Before Completion