Translation based on the oldest known characters.

Chinese coins

Ask the Oracle

Tumbling Coins Oracle
Yarrowstalks simple
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Enter a reading manually
ShenShu oracle
(Oracles: © 2010 Emanuele, Italy)

Why 'Oracle of the moon'?

Yarrow

Choose a hexagram according to the trigrams
upper lower
	01	09	14	43	26	05	34	11
	44	57	50	28	18	48	32	46
	13	37	30	49	22	63	55	36
	10	61	38	58	41	60	54	19
	33	53	56	31	52	39	62	15
	06	59	64	47	04	29	40	07
	25	42	21	17	27	03	51	24
	12	20	35	45	23	08	16	02

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Click on the image for informations and pictures.

Choose a hexagram-number
01	11	21	31	41	51	61
02	12	22	32	42	52	62
03	13	23	33	43	53	63
04	14	24	34	44	54	64
05	15	25	35	45	55
06	16	26	36	46	56
07	17	27	37	47	57
08	18	28	38	48	58
09	19	29	39	49	59
10	20	30	40	50	60

"There is nothing permanent except change"
Heraclitus

The story of each hexagram
(you also find its link on each hexagram-page)

The origin of the hexagrams:
From sundial GUI to
hexagram GUA

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The meaning of the name of this book
YiJing, book of Yi (or I)

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More Yi-mages
Dragons, images, dao's origin
and imaginings.

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The structure of a hexagram
and the problem of multiple moving lines

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Yao Ying, mirrors and reflections:
moving lines and their relations

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Omen-terms
etymology and meaning of characters

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Old oracles

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Trigrams
the characters of their names with their meanings

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Hexagram families

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The Bagua pattern
for the hexagram lay-out
and a Bagua-reading

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My bookshelf
You'd like to understand the Yi as a science (and more)?
Then Read the books by Katya Walter, the TOE-series!

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Hexagram stories by Anton Heyboer

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Harmen's pages

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De Yijing (I Ching, I Tjing) in Holland

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Yijing books at Amazon.com
And at Bookdepository.com