This is a random draw read against a fixed table of meanings — a tool for reflection, not a prediction and not a calculation from your birth chart.
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How this reading works
Toss three coins six times. Heads count 3 and tails 2, so each toss totals 6, 7, 8 or 9. Lines are built from the bottom up: 7 is a solid (yang) line, 8 a broken (yin) line, and 9 and 6 are "moving" lines that change into their opposite to form a second, relating hexagram.
The older yarrow-stalk method divides and counts 50 stalks through a long ritual. It gives the same four line values with different odds: a moving yin 6 comes 1 time in 16, a moving yang 9 three times, a still 7 five times and a still 8 seven times. This tool reproduces those odds with a sixteen-slot draw.
Each of six lines is made by tossing three coins (or by sorting 50 yarrow stalks): solid yang or broken yin, some marked as changing. The resulting hexagram, and any second hexagram formed by the changing lines, is read in the text.
The I Ching is an ancient Chinese divination text, originally a divination manual of the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC), later expanded with the philosophical commentaries known as the Ten Wings. It became one of the Chinese Five Classics in the 2nd century BC.
Cultural, safety and licence notes
The text is a prompt for reflection, not a prediction.
James Legge’s 1882 translation (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16) is in the public domain. The Richard Wilhelm German translation and its Cary F. Baynes English rendering are still under copyright and are not quoted.