oracle practice · 6 minute lesson
Build the six lines yourself
Cast three coins six times and follow each total into a line of your completed hexagram.
Try the tool →Three small steps
Ask once
Write one question before the first toss. Keep it steady while the figure grows so you can read the complete cast against the same situation.
Start at the roots
Use the cast button for each set of three coins. The first line sits at the bottom. Continue through six tosses, watching the totals and the stack together.
Follow the moving lines
Read the hexagram and changing-line summary. Open this exact cast carries all six lines into the I Ching reading without tossing again. Compare the second figure, when shown, before starting over.
Words to recognize
- Coin total
- The three coins add to six, seven, eight, or nine for one line.
- Still line
- A seven or eight keeps its solid or broken form in the resulting figure.
- Moving line
- A six or nine changes form when the tool builds the second figure.
try what you learned
Where does your first three-coin toss belong in the hexagram?
Take it into practice
- Which changing position caught your eye first?
- What stays steady across the two pictures?
Art, sources & approach
These are simulated three-coin casts with site-drawn coins and explanatory text, offered as a way to learn the line-building method.
Lesson diagrams and interface illustrations: Brews and Bloom. Diagrams simplify the idea being taught; they are not historical artifacts.
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