01Primary
See the structure you are in
Begin with the hexagram name, upper and lower trigrams, and the Judgment. Read the situation before trying to solve it.
01 / 05Read change
ASTRO I CHING · BOOK OF CHANGES
Read change,
know when to move.
One hexagram, read slowly.
Bring a question you are actually facing into the I Ching.
Start with image and source text; notice position, timing, and the next workable move.
HEXAGRAM 6464
LI · FIREKAN · WATER
Before Completion
WÈI JÌNot finished yet.
Change is still underway.
02 / 05Read a hexagram
A reading moves
through four layers.
Begin with the whole situation, move toward the positions that change, then return to the question you brought with you.
02Moving
Find where change is concentrated
Moving lines locate the positions under pressure. They narrow attention without turning one line into a fixed prediction.
03Changed
See the structure produced by change
When lines move, the changed hexagram shows another arrangement of the same field — a new structure to compare, not a guaranteed future.
04Return
Bring the reading back to your question
Place the images, limits, timing, and proportions back beside the situation you are actually facing.
PRIMARY · MOVING LINES · CHANGED HEXAGRAM
Read the change without turning it into a fixed verdict.
03 / 05Enter the text
An old text can still
be read with precision.
Cast the lines, keep the source visible,
then let interpretation earn its place.
50Great Expansion
one set aside49used in the cast
THREE CHANGES FORM A LINE · SIX LINES FORM A HEXAGRAM
01Cast
Form the hexagram through the yarrow method
The Great Expansion method begins with fifty stalks, sets one aside, and uses the remaining forty-nine to form six lines from the bottom upward.
02Source
Keep the Classical Chinese in view
The source text remains visible beside an editorial close rendering. Astro I Ching then adds a separate cultural reading rather than hiding the original behind a summary.
03Read
Use interpretation only when it helps
You can read the hexagram without a model. When you want a personalized reading, Astro can connect the fixed cast to your question without changing the source or recasting it.
04 / 05Explore all 64
Sixty-four hexagrams,
sixty-four structures of change.
Start with completion and incompletion, creation and receptivity — then move through the full sequence.
Browse all 64 hexagramsHEXAGRAM 64READING
Before Completion
wèi jì火水未济
Before completion, when the parts exist but the crossing is not yet secure
HEXAGRAM 63READING
After Completion
jì jì水火既济
After Completion: success enters a maintenance phase where small failures matter again
HEXAGRAM 01READING
The Creative
qián乾为天
Creative power, timing, and the discipline of measure
HEXAGRAM 02READING
The Receptive
kūn坤为地
Receptivity, carrying capacity, and allowing form to emerge
05 / 05Return to life
Read the text,
then return to life.
The classic offers a way of seeing.
How you understand it and what you do remain yours.
Cast · Classical Chinese · Close rendering · Cultural reading
You can form a hexagram and read it without calling a model. The text, structure, and editorial explanation are useful on their own.
Let Astro read the fixed cast beside your question
Personalized interpretation belongs on top of the source layer. The hexagram you cast stays the same; only the contextual reading becomes more specific.
Leave some room inside change.ASTRO I CHING