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Four shelves, from first principles to advanced practice.
易經 · Yì Jīng
The Book of Changes — consult it, study it, look things up.
The I Ching is a three-thousand-year-old book of counsel, consulted by casting coins or yarrow stalks to arrive at one of sixty-four hexagrams. This section holds all three ways in: the oracle itself, the writing that teaches you to read it, and the reference tables behind both.
Choose three coins or yarrow stalks, then receive a reading from the resulting hexagram.
Four shelves, from first principles to advanced practice.
The entities of the Book of Changes, each with its classical texts and correspondences.
Looking for elements, stems, branches or directions? Those are shared across Chinese systems and live in the general reference .