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LEARN THE ESSENTIALS · 入门指南

A clearer way to read the patterns.

Begin with a question, learn the language of change, and connect the patterns to everyday choices.

BEGINNER GUIDES · 入门指南

Read, watch, understand.

Two visual explanations to help you follow your reading.

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All beginner guides

Read in this order, or choose the question on your mind.

  1. GUIDE 01

    What is the I Ching?

    Start with patterns, change and the eight trigrams.

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  2. GUIDE 02

    Your first I Ching reading

    Bring one concern and learn what to expect.

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  3. GUIDE 03

    How to ask a useful question

    Turn a broad worry into a question you can work with.

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  4. GUIDE 04

    Coins or Mei Hua?

    Compare how the two methods form and interpret a reading.

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  5. GUIDE 05

    Moving lines & the relating hexagram

    See which lines change, and what the new pattern can suggest.

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  6. GUIDE 06

    The Five Phases and their cycles

    Explore generating, restraining and the trigram correspondences.

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  7. GUIDE 07

    Body & use in Mei Hua Yi Shu

    Connect the subject and its conditions through the Five Phases.

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