![]() Perhaps meditate on the hexagram for a few days before reaching a conclusion. After the reading it is best to give some thought to how you should change before taking action. The I Ching is so flexible and vast that it can literally be studied. For I Ching it is recommended to read multiple translations to gain a clear understanding of what is being suggested and think of the problem in different scopes. If the person is seeking help from a medium, the medium should suggest similar things as they read the hexagram suggestions. Perhaps the situation arose from an overspending of a fortune, or not enough, to have a balance of material and social happiness, and a lack of understanding why an unfortunate event took place. ![]() If this person is doing the reading by themself, they should take actions to increase the wealth of happiness by adopting a healthier balance of their overall wealth share a portion of it with others, including their friend. According to the reading, our person in question is probably having problems within the friendship because they have been overly selfish and/or not controlling wealth (perhaps not of money, more likely social or material wealth) in a responsible way. Look for the lower or bottom element before the upper or top one. Think about it as stacking books.Īfter you receive the hexagram, consult the I Ching using the trigram chart in the book or on the internet. To record your results, you must build the hexagram from the ground up to get an accurate reading, like a house stabding up from the earth, not a bee hive hanging from a tree. If you have old yin or yang, change them to their opposite before reading. Yang is a solid line and yin is a broken line. The number 9 (or three tails) old yang (changes to yin) This yes/no method uses the flipping of a coin, or multiple coins, and gives easy access to your intuition. The number 8 (or one head and two tails) new yin (remains yin) The number 7 (or two heads and a tail) new yang (remains as yang) The number 6 (or three heads) old yin (changes to yang) For this example all heads are 2 and all tails are 3. You could just write how many coins are head or tails, or you could assign the numbers 2 and 3 to each side (all heads are either 2 or 3, and all tails are the other value). You can have any four combinations of coins, and there are different ways to record the result. Record the result and repeat 5 more times. Literally any three coins will do (I use pennies) but some people like to buy Chinese coins for the feel of authentic divination.īefore you look through the I Ching, take your three coins and toss them. Today, there are many creative ways to read I Ching from numerology to dice to taking two random items in the house to understand the situation, however the most tangible and popular method for this divination is the three-coin method.Īll you need is at least one copy/translation of the I Ching (or the internet equivalent) and any three coins. Traditionally readings were recorded by throwing yarrow sticks and translated by looking up the corresponding hexagrams from the readings and giving advice on the situation. Click here to order now.The I Ching, or the Book of Change, is a Chinese book and divination system based on 8 combinations of three yin or yang represented as solid or broken lines and combined in pairs to make "hexagrams". It is helpful if you wish to further study the I-ching. Now you can order our complete online I-ching dictionary in PDF.
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