Method.

What the coins do, what the text says, and what this tool refuses to claim.

The cast

Three coins are thrown six times. Heads count three, tails count two. The sum is six, seven, eight, or nine: old yin, young yang, young yin, or old yang. Lines are recorded from the bottom up, as the tradition does.

Old lines are moving. A six becomes a yang line, a nine becomes a yin line, and the changed lines form a second hexagram. If nothing moves, the first hexagram is the whole answer.

Reading the result

The judgment describes the situation. The image describes its shape. A moving line describes the particular hinge. When several lines move, this tool follows the common traditional rule of reading the uppermost moving line as the decisive one, while listing the others as context.

Every sentence in a reading points back to a passage identifier, so you can check it against the page for that hexagram.

The text

The Chinese text is the received Zhouyi, in the public domain. English renderings on this site are our own plain-language versions, not a scholarly translation. The commentary is editorial, written to be useful rather than authoritative.

What this is not

It is not a prediction of events, a medical or legal opinion, or a substitute for a decision. It is a structured way to think about a situation you already inhabit.