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Series
Where to begin with the Book of Changes: casting methods, reading a hexagram, and the geometry beneath the sixty-four figures.
A plain introduction to the I Ching: what the Book of Changes is, its layered history, the 64-hexagram system, and why a cast is contemplation, not prophecy.
A clear reading order for a complete I Ching cast: judgment, image, moving lines, and the secondary hexagram — plus how to read a still hexagram.
Step-by-step three-coin I Ching method: coin values, sums 6 to 9, changing lines, and how to build your primary and secondary hexagrams.
The 50-stalk yarrow I Ching method explained: the divide-count-reduce cycle, why it takes 30 minutes, and how its probabilities differ from three coins.
What changing lines are, why 6 and 9 move, and how to read a cast with zero, one, or many changing lines — primary and secondary hexagram explained.
How an I Ching hexagram is built: yin and yang lines, stacking six from the bottom up, the eight trigrams and their upper-lower pairing, and why there are 64.
The 64 hexagrams form a 6-D hypercube: 64 vertices, 192 edges, six neighbors each. What this map adds to a traditional I Ching reading.
A Hasse diagram stacks the 64 hexagrams in seven ranks by yang-line count — Kun at the bottom, Qian at the top, one changing line per edge. A map for contemplation.