What is this?

[pakua]

Here's a site http://www.largesalad.co.uk/TTG/expreadings4.htm#choose
which has some kind of different i ching. Can anyone figure out what hex this example might be?

Path 8.5/1
A dead tree.

The rut is deep.
Three units of time pass.
If possible, avoid this Path. At best it will be unsatisfactory. A student who locks themselves away to study will do well.

TIME: Things may seem all right at first, but you are fast approaching a dead end, make changes before it?s too late.

[lightangel]

According to the thread about 10 years/3 years, the lines that have three years in them are:

13.3, 29.6, 47.1, 53.5. 55.6, 63.3 and 64.4

That might give you a clue...

[bradford_h]

It's still the Yi, sort of.
The method forces one Yao Ci (changing line text) per reading. The numbers refer to the trigrams but don't give a clue to what Gua you're in. This one's 47.1.
Gimmicks and more gimmicks. They've always provided much wanted distractions from the actual study of the Yi. Why is that?

[yly2pg1]

If you don't like changing lines, this method is helpful. It helps to focus on one changing line at a time. I used this a lot in the past. Not now, if you know the beauty of changing lines ...

[freemanc]

It isn't really modeling "picking cards". It's rolling a d8 twice then a d6.

The translation/interpretation thingie is a "least common denominator" reading and rewording of four or five translations. Sort of a "paste up".

Which isn't necessarily a complete waste of time, especially if you really can't not do it.

Overall a pretty cute hack, and I hope it was very rewarding for a novice-to-intermediate web programmer to have done. Someone lavished a fair amount of time on it, especially if, as I suspicion, they did the text also.

I guess it won't be much of a page-view magnet but I imagine that probably wasn't the point.

Freeman C

[heylise]

Path 8 means upper trigram is wind.
Situation (or house) 4 means lower trigram is lake.
Path 6 is top line.
Hex. 21/6

LiSe

[peter]

He-he. Funny thing, but rather primitive. Always gives you one moving line in a hexagram.

Numbers go in simple way:
1 - Qian
2 - Kun (both parents)
3 - Zhen
4 - Xun (both - elder childred)
5 - Kan
6 - Li (both - middle children)
7 - Gen
8 - Dui (both - junior children)

The first card (House) shows you the upper trigram, the second card (Situation) - the lower trigram, and the third card (Path) (always from 1 to 6) - number of the moving line.

I don't know which translation had been used - but I didn't study English translations very much.

[candid]

Before using this method and text I?d choose a good ole fortune cookie. At least they?re benign.