The I Ching Oracle
Explore the Book of Changes through three-coin casting, six-line patterns and the King Wen sequence. Casts are calculated in this browser. The traditional symbols offer a practice for reflection, not a verified prediction.
✦ The Oracle Awaits
Hold your question or current intention in your mind with focused clarity. DIVINATION INSTRUCTIONS:
- Each toss casts 3 bronze coins. Three heads = 9 (Old Yang), Three tails = 6 (Old Yin).
- Two heads & one tail = 8 (Young Yin), One head & two tails = 7 (Young Yang).
- Lines build organically from the root (Line 1, Earth) upward to the pinnacle (Line 6, Heaven).
- Any changing lines (Old Yin or Old Yang) will mutate into their opposites, showing a Transformed Hexagram to consider alongside the original pattern. Individual changing-line translations are not included.
Sources & the limits of a reading
All 64 identities and bottom-to-top line signatures are checked against James Legge’s The Yî King (Clarendon Press, 1882). Glyphs and English identifier names follow the Unicode character database.
Each of the 64 patterns includes its main judgment and Great Image passage from James Legge’s 1882 English translation. Page links accompany the text. Line wrapping and historical name diacritics are normalized; OCR corrections were checked against the scan. Historical language is retained. These passages are distinct from original NSP / VORATH creative writing. No individual changing-line translation is supplied.
Read Legge’s historic edition · Unicode hexagram reference · Source and editorial notes
The Eight Elemental Trigrams
The eight traditional three-line figures combine into 64 six-line patterns. Their associations below are cultural correspondences, not scientific mechanisms.