易经
The Book of Changes
Ask one thing. Let the coins answer.
Three old bronze coins, cast six times. Your hexagram rises line by line, and the Song dynasty scholar Shao Yong reads it with you.
Write my questionThe Book of Changes
Three old bronze coins, cast six times. Your hexagram rises line by line, and the Song dynasty scholar Shao Yong reads it with you.
Write my questionThe Book of Changes is around three thousand years old, one of the oldest books in China. It holds sixty-four figures of six lines, and each one is a picture of a moment in a life.
It will not decide for you. It shows the moment you are standing in, what is on the turn, and how a careful person would act there.
An inscribed side counts two, a plain side counts three. Add the three coins for one line. Six and nine are old lines: they are turning, and they change your hexagram into another.
Your guide
A Northern Song scholar of Luoyang (1011–1077). He turned down office, called his plain home the Nest of Peace and Joy, and gave his life to the numbers inside the Changes. Here he is the guide in our story, sitting with you while you read your hexagram.
Ask one thing, plainly. “What should I understand about this?” usually reads better than “Will it happen?” Your question stays on this device. Nothing is sent.