New to I Ching

[ringoko]

Hello everyone

I'm about to try out my own I Ching reading for the first time, and I have everything ready, my 3 coins and the Wilhelm translation but, theres one last sticking point.

If there are 2 or more changing lines, is there still only one 'future' hexagram? I mean, I flip ALL the changing lines at once and that is the outcome.

Or, do I flip one line at a time, meaning there could be up to 6 future hexagrams rather than one?

I'm sure this has been asked many times before but referring to the books and online guides, I can never really find an answer...

 

[jesed]

If there are 2 or more changing lines, is there still only one 'future' hexagram? I mean, I flip ALL the changing lines at once and that is the outcome.

Yes

There are some other tools, but for a quick start, that would be enough

Best wishes

 

[tuckchang]

Hi! Ringoko,

There are many reading methods available; all depends on which one is better workable with you. Following is one for your reference. The features of this method are ‘a fixed rule and simplicity’ which suit for people new to divination, but inflexibility.

A) No moving line (i.e. all lines are either 7 or 8): please read the text of the obtained hexagram as the divination advice.
B) Only one moving line: please read the text of this line.
C) 2 moving lines: please read the texts of these 2 lines but the upper one is regarded as the main advice.
D) 3 moving lines: if the first line is not a moving line, please read the text of the original hexagram as the advice. Otherwise, please read the text of the hexagram after all six lines change.
Remark: The hexagram remains unchanged when the number of the moving line is less than 2. While there are 3 moving lines, either all the lines remains still or change together, depending on whether their foundation, i.e. line 1, changes or not.
E) 4 moving lines: all four moving lines change; please read the texts of the two unchanged lines of the new hexagram and the lower one is regarded as the main advice.
F) 5 moving lines: all five moving lines change and please read the text of the unchanged line of the new hexagram.
G) 6 moving line (i.e. all lines are either 6 or 9): all six moving lines change and please read the text of the new hexagram. But the line of using 6 or 9 should be referred to if the original hexagram is Chien (hexagram 1) or Kun (2).

Best regards
Tuck :bows:

 

[russell]

Hello, and welcome to the world of the I Ching. I try to take a holistic view of the results; I look at the base hexagram text, all the moving lines, and the transformed hexagram text, understood in context of all of its lines. I pay most attention to the moving lines; these are the “changes.” If there are multiple, seemingly-contradictory lines, I take that to mean that the situation is complex; the lines may indicate a sequence of changes for the better and/or worse, or they may refer to different aspects of the situation such as different people, or inner vs. outer.

The hexagrams formed by flipping the lines one at a time are called the steps of change, and I often find them to be interesting. I made a javascript I Ching to automatically generate these and many more methods of interpretation; download it at
russellcottrell.com/VirtualYarrowStalks.
You can use it to consult the I Ching, or you can enter results obtained by other means to study them further.

—Russell

 

[bostonian]

The hexagrams formed by flipping the lines one at a time are called the steps of change, and I often find them to be interesting. I made a javascript I Ching to automatically generate these and many more methods of interpretation; download it at
russellcottrell.com/VirtualYarrowStalks.
You can use it to consult the I Ching, or you can enter results obtained by other means to study them further.

very nice program!

 

[lylealmond]

Hi ringoko,

The simple answer is that no matter how many changing lines you get in the nuclear hexagram, you still only get one resulting hexagram (i.e., all the changing lines change simultaneously, transforming the nuclear hexagram into a single resulting hexagram). I hope this helps.

That being said, tuckchang has devised a very interesting method. I'll have to try that.

 

[jesed]

That being said, tuckchang has devised a very interesting method. I'll have to try that.

It is a much more older method. Does Zhu Xi rings any bell?