Six-line I Ching guides
Begin with one clear question and six coin throws. Then learn branch assignment, Self and Other, the focus line and what changes when a line moves.
Six-line I Ching
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Choosing a focus line: yong shen and the Five Relationships
Match a Six-line I Ching question to its focus, understand Parent, Sibling, Child, Wealth and Officer, and handle a missing focus honestly.
Self and Other lines: locating Shi and Ying in the Eight Palaces
Understand the Self/Other axis, the eight palace stages, wandering and returning soul, and the complete sixty-four-hexagram reference.
Na Jia: assigning branches to the six lines
Learn the lower/upper trigram branch table, forward and backward sequences, the relationship layer and MingLiMR’s historical indexing correction.
How to cast an I Ching hexagram: a beginner’s guide
Ask one clear question, cast three coins six times, identify moving lines, and distinguish classical text reading from Six-line I Ching.
Changing hexagrams: moving lines, returning support and returning control
Build the resulting hexagram, compare changed lines with their originals, examine advance/retreat pairs and separate Zhu Xi’s text-reading rules.
The hexagram library
Explore all sixty-four figures and the sixteen published guides. Each guide separates the stable line structure, traditional themes and the limits of interpreting a specific cast.
Open the hexagram library →Put the guides into practice
Explore one specific question
Six-line I Ching needs no birth details. Cast online or enter your coin throws to see the primary and resulting hexagrams, moving lines, Self and Other. A library entry describes a fixed structure; your own cast provides the question-specific context.