Practices · I Ching
Sixty-four figures of change.
The Book of Changes is among the oldest Chinese classics. Six lines, each whole or broken, still or moving, form a hexagram that describes the movement of a situation. The Veil casts with the ancient yarrow-stalk rite.
How we cast and read
The yarrow-stalk method
Fifty stalks, one set aside as witness, the rest divided and counted in fours three times per line — giving 6, 7, 8 or 9 with the classical probabilities.
The eight trigrams
Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Water, Mountain, Wind, Fire and Lake — the images from which every hexagram is built.
Changing lines
Old yin and old yang lines transform, revealing a relating hexagram that shows where the situation is moving.
A Daoist reading
Interpretations follow the spirit of the Dao: yielding, timing and the return to simplicity, rather than fixed prediction.