I Ching Online —
Ask, Cast, Understand

You are not looking up a hexagram's text. You are asking about one thing in your life — and casting for its answer.

① Prepare — hold your question

  1. 1.Hold your question in your mind — one matter, one casting.
  2. 2.Be still and sincere — settle the heart before you cast.
  3. 3.Focus — keep your attention on the one question only.
  4. 4.Cast once — the same question is never cast twice.

“As the I Ching itself warns: it does not answer the same question asked twice.”

Hexagram 4, Meng (蒙):初筮告,再三渎,渎则不告。 — James Legge (1899), public domain

② Cast the Hexagram

Three coins, six tosses. Each line is revealed from the bottom up.

Line 6Top— not yet cast —
Line 55th— not yet cast —
Line 44th— not yet cast —
Line 33rd— not yet cast —
Line 22nd— not yet cast —
Line 1Initial— not yet cast —

What a reading looks like

Proper Translations

Grounded in scholarly sources — based on the public-domain James Legge (1899) translation — not keyword-stuffed summaries. Each hexagram text reflects its classical meaning.

Moving Lines Matter

Your hexagram reveals the specific lines in motion — showing not just where you are, but where the situation is heading.

Follow Up

Ask a clarifying question after your reading. The conversation with the oracle continues as long as you need it to.

Sample Reading

Question asked

“I'm considering leaving my job to start something new. Is this the right time?”

Hexagram 47 (Exhaustion) does not counsel giving up. It counsels going inward. The lake is empty — not ruined, just depleted. The image here is of a person whose outer resources are spent, but whose inner clarity is sharpening precisely because distraction has been stripped away.

The second line suggests that even in constraint, your relationships and rituals sustain you. Act on what you know for certain, not on escape. The fifth line's “joy comes slowly” is a promise, not a dismissal.

— Example reading for Hexagram 47: Exhaustion. For illustrative purposes only.

Why us

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About the founder

Raised in Chaoshan, Guangdong, where divination is part of everyday life. Years of deep study across the classical schools — Najia, BaZi, and the theory behind them — with one principle throughout: the knowledge must stay pure. No shortcuts, no invented lore.

Explore Your Chinese Birth Chart

Your BaZi chart reveals the elemental blueprint of your life — the four pillars of destiny encoded in your birth moment.

The 64 Hexagrams

Explore the complete oracle. Each hexagram is a window into a particular configuration of forces.

Heaven 系

乾

Pure creative force — strength at the moment of beginning, the will that sets things in motion.

Lake 系

兑

Open water, open joy — what flows freely between what has come together.

Fire 系

离

The clarifying flame — discernment, devotion, and the light of feeling.

Thunder 系

震

The awakening shock — change that arrives sudden, electric, unstoppable.

Wind 系

巽

The gentle penetrating — steady, quiet pressure that moves what stands firm.

Water 系

坎

The unfathomable depth — danger faced by staying wholly present.

Mountain 系

艮

The still point — rest and reflection before the next descent.

Earth 系

坤

The receptive field — the fertile ground on which all becoming rests.

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