01
乾QIÁN
NATURAL IMAGE · HEAVEN
The Creative
Strength. Creative power moves without ceasing, sets direction and brings things into being.
PRACTICAL VERB · INITIATETHE BOOK OF CHANGES
Learn the I Ching
Begin with the eight trigrams, then explore the 64 hexagrams and their six changing lines.
BEGIN WITH THE EIGHT TRIGRAMS
Eight forces.
The roots of every hexagram.
Before there are sixty-four hexagrams, there are eight three-line forms. Each names a force in nature and a way a situation can move.
1 · CLASSIC FORM2 · IMAGE IN NATURE3 · ACTION IN LIFE
02
坤KŪN
NATURAL IMAGE · EARTH
The Receptive
Yielding. Earth receives, nourishes and bears what is forming without forcing its course.
PRACTICAL VERB · RECEIVE & SUSTAIN03
震ZHÈN
NATURAL IMAGE · THUNDER
The Arousing
Movement. Thunder breaks stillness with a sudden impulse and sets life in motion.
PRACTICAL VERB · AWAKEN & MOVE04
巽XÙN
NATURAL IMAGE · WIND / WOOD
The Gentle
THE PENETRATINGPenetration. Wind enters every opening; wood grows through gradual, sustained influence.
PRACTICAL VERB · ENTER GRADUALLY05
坎KǍN
NATURAL IMAGE · WATER / GORGE
The Abysmal
Danger. Water descends into depth and keeps flowing through difficult ground.
PRACTICAL VERB · MOVE THROUGH DANGER06
离LÍ
NATURAL IMAGE · FIRE / LIGHT
The Clinging
BRIGHTNESS · RADIANCEDependence. Fire clings to what it burns, while its light makes forms visible.
PRACTICAL VERB · ILLUMINATE & REVEAL07
艮GÈN
NATURAL IMAGE · MOUNTAIN
Keeping Still
Standstill. A mountain marks the point to stop, hold a boundary and come to rest.
PRACTICAL VERB · STOP & HOLD08
兑DUÌ
NATURAL IMAGE · LAKE / MARSH
The Joyous
Pleasure. An open lake reflects and gathers; an open mouth speaks and responds.
PRACTICAL VERB · OPEN & EXCHANGE3 lines make a trigram☰+☷=䷊2 trigrams make a hexagram
MOTION STUDIES
From a force in nature
to a moment in motion.
These early studies explore how a trigram develops over time and how two trigrams meet inside a six-line hexagram.
SIX PHASES · RISINGSKY · RISINGThe Creative
Initiative · Strength · Beginning
乾QIÁN
EARTH · RECEIVINGThe Receptive
Openness · Support · Response
坤KŪN
EARTH ABOVE · HEAVEN BELOWHEAVEN + EARTH · MEETINGPeace
Exchange · Harmony · Connection
泰TÀI
Design principleThe memory mark supports recognition. It never replaces the six-line hexagram or the Chinese name.
START WITH CURIOSITY
Learn the language
of change.
☰☷
BEGINNER GUIDE · 6 MIN
What is the I Ching?
A clear introduction to hexagrams, changing lines and why people have returned to this book for centuries.
Read the guide →How to ask a useful question
Move from “Will this happen?” to questions that reveal choices and conditions.
Read the guide →Primary and relating hexagrams
How one pattern becomes another, and what that change adds to a reading.
Read the guide →THE COMPLETE 64
Sixty-four moments
of change.
Each scene introduces a hexagram. Open its guide for the classical judgment, six line texts, and an illustration for every line.
01
乾 · QIÁN
→02The Creative
Initiative · Strength · Beginning
坤 · KŪN
→11The Receptive
Openness · Support · Response
泰 · TÀI
→Peace
Exchange · Harmony · Connection
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YiPhase separates source text, translation and contemporary reflection. We show how a hexagram was formed, explain uncertainty, and never present a reading as a guaranteed prediction.
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