I Ching Readings

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What is I Ching?

The I Ching or Yi Jing, usually translated Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics.

What are Hexagrams?

The I Ching book consists of 64 hexagrams. A hexagram in this context is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines, where each line is either Yang, or Yin. The hexagram lines are traditionally counted from the bottom up, so the lowest line is considered line one while the top line is line six.

What are Trigrams?

The trigrams were traditional East Asian symbols, each composed of three straight lines, either solid or broken in the center. Known in China as the pa kua, these played a prominent part in Chinese religion, philosophy, and proto-science for more than two thousand years. Taoist priests, sages, and scholars used them extensively in astrology, geomancy, and other forms of divination, as well as in medicine and alchemy, and the trigrams provided motifs for artists and artisans in various media. Taken in pairs, they also composed the hexagrams that formed the basis for divination in the I-ching.