IChingStyle DAILY · I CHING · STYLE
Spend a day with one hexagram. Slowly learn how Chinese thought has observed the world and read change for five thousand years. Casting is the doorway; reflection is the path.
How Chinese thought reads change
Head of the Chinese classics. Five thousand years of philosophy at its source. A system for observing the world and understanding change.
Yin · Yang 阴阳
The world is built of opposites that depend on each other — firm and yielding, motion and stillness, light and dark. Each line is a single judgment: yin, or yang.
Change 变易
Everything moves. A yang line can become yin; one hexagram becomes another. Reading change is how you meet the turns of a life.
Position 时位
The same thing in a different place asks for a different response. The six lines are stages — knowing "where I am" matters more than "what's next."
The Trigrams — alphabet of the hexagrams
Three lines form a trigram. Eight trigrams represent the elemental forces: heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain, lake.
Stacked in pairs, the eight become sixty-four — the language of divination, and the Chinese map of the cosmos.
The same questions, the same gestures
Number, coin, yarrow stalk — three classical methods, ancient bones, interactive flesh, brought to your fingertips.
Number Method 数字
Enter three groups of numbers — the upper trigram, the lower trigram, and the changing line. The method recommended by Prof. Fu Pei-jung; fast and beginner-friendly.
Coin Toss 金钱
Toss three coins six times — each toss yields one line, drawn from bottom up. Produces changing lines, the most used method in daily practice.
Yarrow Stalks 蓍草
Divide, hang, count by fours — the ancient ritual with forty-nine stalks across eighteen changes. The most traditional, most ceremonious method.
Eight by eight — sixty-four. All things contained.
One hexagram, one situation; one situation, one metaphor. Recognize them slowly, collect them slowly — the achievement system records every hexagram you have met.
The classical method, kept honest. Your data, kept yours.
0–6 Changing Lines
Full rules for primary, variant, and the 用九 / 用六 cases of Qián and Kūn. Read by the classical method, no shortcuts.
Questions & Reflections
Record your question before casting; add reflections over time. Each cast becomes an archived moment of thought.
AI Interpretation
Twenty-one-day free trial, then subscribe or bring your own AI. A modern voice next to the classical text — not a replacement.
Auxiliary Casting
Three extra daily casts when you need them. One hexagram a day is the rule; affinity makes the exception.
Collect All 64
The achievement system tracks the hexagrams you have met. Every first encounter is worth remembering.
JSON Backup
Everything stays on your device. Export at will. The cloud is an option, never a prerequisite.
A day with one hexagram
Sixty-four hexagrams, three hundred eighty-four lines, thousands of words of canon, two thousand years of commentary. A lifetime of reading is still only the entrance.
Better to spend each day with one hexagram than to skim the whole book.
Across a year, every hexagram returns a few times.
Different place, different reading. Casting is the gate; reflection is the way.
What you learn is not whether the hexagram is "right" —
but how to stand steady in the midst of change.
Honor the tradition · Practice daily
Begin a long conversation with the I Ching, starting with today's hexagram.