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Read a good translation, not somebody's interpretation.
Read the original hexagram
Read the changing lines in the original hexagram
Read the resulting hexagram
At this point don't bother with anything like swapping lines.
What is a swapping line?
If the cast hexagram is hexagram 3, and line 5 is changing which produces hexagram 24 as the relating hexagram (Roras, for this we often use shorthand notation like 3.5 > 24) - then the swapping line would be 24.5?
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http://www.hermetica.info/ (Scroll down to The Book of Changes: Yijing (I Ching) - Word By Word )
I've been doing it for a little over 40 years now, so the early process is a bit foggy, but in recent years I've narrowed things down to a system based on documented divinations from ancient China that gives you one and only one text no matter how many lines change.
You'll need to interact with the Yi Jing and feel your way to what works for you.
Welcome to the most wonderful book in the world, by the way.
Thanks for the reply bradford.
I just discovered I have both of your volumes. Are they good ones?
Thanks for the advice. Should I treat the changing lines as something like additional information and not as separate entities? I understand Yin and Yang as two poles between which everything moves, with nothing eternally Yin and nothing eternally Yang. Should the changing lines be treated as information on how some aspects of the original hexagram will change? Over time perhaps? I've read they should/shouldn't be seen as what may happen after the original hexagram has played itself out.
The journalling is something I will definitely start doing.
I also did another casting on Saturday and came up with a hexagram with two changing lines; 17 with 4 and 5 changing. I found that if I read 17, then the changing lines, then hexagram 3 (17 with line 4 changed) and then hexagram 24 (3 with line 5 changed or 17 with 4 & 5 changed) it told a an unambiguous story.
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