I Ching: Book of Changes

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About this app

Consult the I Ching easily, without carrying coins around.
Let the Chinese ancestors surprise you with surprisingly accurate divinations, for FREE. ☯

It's very simple to use:
1. The first thing you need to do is think a question...
2. Then toss the coins 3 coins a total of 6 times: The resulting coins highly depend on the exact moment when you toss them. You have impact on the final result.

Customize your experience:
Decide what information you want to display (trigrams, quotes, descriptions).

Check your journal!
You can always check previous answers from the oracle.

The I Ching or Yi Jing (Chinese: 易經, Mandarin: [î tɕíŋ]), usually translated as Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text and among the oldest of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC), over the course of the Warring States period and early imperial period (500–200 BC) it was transformed into a cosmological text with a series of philosophical commentaries known as the "Ten Wings".After becoming part of the Five Classics in the 2nd century BC, the I Ching was the subject of scholarly commentary and the basis for divination practice for centuries across the Far East, and eventually took on an influential role in Western understanding of Eastern thought.
The I Ching means “Book of Changes” in Chinese and is all about Change, which is the one constant in life. If you get no changing lines when you cast a hexagram (i.e. number 6 or a 9 value), that signifies that conditions related to your topic are relatively stable or not in great flux at this particular time.

The I Ching is used in a type of divination called cleromancy, which uses apparently random numbers. Six numbers between 6 and 9 are turned into a hexagram, which can then be looked up in the text, in which hexagrams are arranged in an order known as the King Wen sequence. The interpretation of the readings found in the I Ching is a matter which has been endlessly discussed and debated over in the centuries following its compilation, and many commentators have used the book symbolically, often to provide guidance for moral decision making as informed by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The hexagrams themselves have often acquired cosmological significance and been paralleled with many other traditional names for the processes of change such as yin and yang and Wu Xing.

Translations:
🇺🇸 English
🇪🇸 Spanish
Updated on
Apr 29, 2023

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Ratings and reviews

4.9
1.03K reviews
Richard Crites
November 24, 2023
I like that this app uses the Wilhelm/Baines translation. And it is easy to use to consult the Oracle. It was not obvious to me how to access the text of a secondary hexagram, but that feature does exist (see developer's reply). I would like to be able to import external/manual responses into the history section. That would make the app practically perfect.
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Jose Camara
November 23, 2023
Hello! Thanks for your feedback! The secondary hexagram can be checked by selecting the tab labelled as "Secondary" (it's on the top of the app!) I'll try to improve the user experience for this part, since other users also thought the secondary hexagram was missing! Thanks !
Jelks Cabaniss
November 21, 2023
Excellent, despite some cons. Full Wilhem version. Only cons are some typos (e.g. "goof" instead of "good"), and sometimes randomly, you can't get back to the oracle part after looking at the journal part & thus you have to kill & restart the app. Other than those issues, this is an excellent Book of Changes (Wilhelm Edition) app. Recommended.
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Jamie Hogan
May 24, 2023
Really good. No cost, no ads. Provides a few ways of interpreting to work between, not to get a better answer but to clarify the one you receive. Interface isn't always intuitive, but even that offers an opportunity to practice a little deliberate nonaction. If you're looking for fast, definitive, easy answers, you'll be disappointed. If you're seeking perspective, distance, and thought-provocation, I definitely recommend this app
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