You should be in a relaxed, meditative state when consulting the I-Ching, and only focus on one question at a time. “How is my spiritual development progressing?”.“What are my prospects like in my current job?”.Questions should be open and general, rather than queries with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. The coin should be tossed six times while the user holds an open question in mind, and the result of each coin toss will allow you to build the hexagram from the bottom line to the top. Traditionally this would be by throwing yarrow sticks, or pulling marbles from a bag but coin tossing has become a more popular method. When consulting the I-Ching, the user simply builds up a hexagram, line by line according to the result of different ‘chance’ methods. All 64 hexagrams are represented by a different number, each of which holds a different meaning. The lines that make up each hexagram can be broken (-) or unbroken (-).īroken lines are ‘yin’, unbroken lines are ‘yang’. The structure of the I-Ching is made up of 64 possible sets of six-line combinations (referred to as hexagrams). The I-Ching is not only useful for its profound future predictions it can also be consulted for divine guidance and insight into human nature. Consulting the I-ChingĪs a divination method, The I-Ching has long been used as a method to predict the future, and it could be argued that the system is still as influential in modern readings as it was thousands of years ago.
Much like the Bible, there is no certainty about who wrote or contributed to the I-Ching, however it is generally believed that the book details the accumulated experience of over 2,500 years of diviners and philosophers. It is believed that the text’s origins are rooted in workings from the Chinese Zhou Dynasty. The I-Ching’s origins are thought to date back to 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, making it one of the world’s oldest oracles, even pre-dating recorded history. 2.1 Learn more about the different methods of divination:.
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