Brush Divination
Draw your question freely; six lines rise from earth to heaven and form one of the sixty-four hexagrams.
The Book of Changes / Yi Jing
A mirror of the eight trigrams to reveal the patterns of personality and destiny. A quiet encounter with six lines, a single question, and yourself.
Begin a readingPractice / Divination
Hold a question in your mind; with a gesture or a touch, the six lines rise from earth to heaven, offering a new way to see what is not yet clear. We do not predict the future, but help you see the pattern of the present.
Draw your question freely; six lines rise from earth to heaven and form one of the sixty-four hexagrams.
From your birth year, month, day and hour, map the four pillars and read the flow of the Five Elements and the shape of your chart.
Line-by-line readings of the sixty-four hexagrams, offering classical guidance for daily decisions, relationships and career.
Where to begin
The I Ching is not a book you read from the first page to the last. It is a set of sixty-four situations, each one described in six lines, and the usual way in is to arrive with one specific question rather than with an appetite for the whole book.
Every hexagram page here is written to be read on its own: what the situation is, what the two trigrams are doing underneath it, where it sits in the sequence of sixty-four, and what it asks you to do differently. If you do not yet know which hexagram applies to you, the Library lists all sixty-four with their Chinese names, and a cast reading will draw one for you.
A single question works better than a general mood. "Should I take the offer?" gives the reading something to answer; "What should I do with my life?" usually returns a hexagram that describes the question rather than the situation. Write the question down before you cast, and keep the wording the same from start to finish — half the value of a reading comes from noticing how your question changes once it is outside your head.
There is no correct order and no required belief. Read a page slowly, notice which sentence feels aimed at you, and treat that sentence as the reading.