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Cast lines

On mobile: six lines and timing advice first, not hexagram tables.

1. One daily hexagram as timing advice.

2. Scroll with changing lines, strategy, anti-rush boundary, and action point.

3. Does not replace contracts, doctors, courts, or financial decisions.

I Ching · six lines

Ask and cast six lines

The I Ching reads change, not a verdict. Lines are built bottom to top, fixed before interpretation, and the full scroll opens the primary and resulting hexagrams.

hall of change and timing

I Ching

I Ching should not imitate cards. It is a bronze hall of lines: a situation ripens, changes, and reveals the right moment.

Its language is six lines, primary hexagram, changing lines, and resulting form. The answer sounds like strategy, not event prediction.

Change seallines, timing, measure

I Ching shows when action becomes timely.

individual ritual

  1. 1ask about movement, not guarantee
  2. 2cast six lines
  3. 3see primary and resulting forms
  4. 4receive the timely step

free taste

One daily hexagram as timing advice.

paid scroll

Scroll with changing lines, strategy, anti-rush boundary, and action point.

best for

a period of changewhen to act and when to waitcomplex strategy

sample question

How do I pass through this transition without wasting strength?

safety boundary

Does not replace contracts, doctors, courts, or financial decisions.

selected format

Free change sign

One short daily orientation: where to move, wait, or stop pushing.

Price

$0

Cast

6 lines

Rule

measure, not verdict

quickly change format

The table below is already tuned to the selected cast type.

seal map

Quick cast

The seal is created after the sixth line: line order, moving places, and hexagrams can no longer be changed by interpretation.

01Question

Ask about change, decision, or timing, without requesting guaranteed future knowledge.

02Scene

Set the context: decision, work, connection, timing, inner question, or daily sign.

03Six lines

Lines are built bottom to top. Each line is locked before interpretation.

04Seal

After the sixth line, question, method, lines, primary and resulting hexagrams are sealed.

05Hexagrams

The answer reads the primary hexagram, moving lines, and resulting shape of change.

06Measure

The ending must give one timely step: wait, clarify, act, or close.

07Echo

Echo returns to the prior scroll after a new fact, rather than recasting the same anxiety.

━━ ╳ ━━

6 · old yin

Yin reached an edge and changes into yang. This is a turning line, not a reason to push harder.

━━━━━━━

7 · young yang

A stable yang line. Action is possible, but not with strain or overconfidence.

━━ ━━

8 · young yin

A stable yin line. Receive the shape of the situation, observe, and do not rush.

━━━ ○ ━━━

9 · old yang

Yang reached its peak and changes into yin. This signals lowering pressure and returning to measure.

line grammar

How to read six lines

Lines are built from bottom to top. The story begins not at the top, but below: foundation, impulse, transition, pressure, maturity, and resulting position.

━━ ╳ ━━

6 · Old yin

changes into yang

━━━━━━━

7 · Young yang

stable yang line

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8 · Young yin

stable yin line

━━━ ○ ━━━

9 · Old yang

changes into yin

I Ching formats

Choose the depth of change

A quick sign fits daily orientation. Changing lines are the core scroll. Decision field is for difficult choices that cannot be reduced to yes or no.

Start with lines

free

Free change sign

$0

One short daily orientation: where to move, wait, or stop pushing.

Open free

paid

Changing lines scroll

$6.99

Primary and resulting hexagrams, moving lines, and one practical action without fog.

Seal the change

paid

Decision field

$14.99

For difficult choice: process, risk, pause, boundary, and next step.

Open the field

Change memory

Archive and Echo keep the change together

Lock

question, method, six lines, and bottom-up order are fixed before interpretation

Echo

return to the prior change after a new fact, not a new anxious cast

Archive

hexagram, line, and theme repeats gather into a personal change map