For a reading, click on the "Consult the Oracle" button. A small window will appear. Click the "Create Hexagram(s)" button to generate the hexagrams. Red indicates a changing line. Clicking on the "Hexagram 1" & "Hexagram 2" buttons will replace this page with the corresponding hexagram's text.
I'm grateful to Dan Enright for allowing me use his I Ching javascript. This is a 2003 modified version of the JavaScript I Ching Hexagram Generator v.1.2 created by Dan Enright in 1999. It is based on the yarrow stalk method. The result is the immediacy of the coin tossing method with the reliability of the yarrow stalk method. The original program was based on Richard Wilhelm's and Cary F. Baynes translation "I Ching: Or, Book of Changes". I have replaced Wilhelm's translation with the hexagram texts [Part Two: The Hexagrams (Copyright © 2003 by Michael Drake)] from I Ching: The Tao of Drumming. It is my own interpretation of the I Ching from a rhythmic perspective.
If you would like to read the entire book, you may download the 2003 revised edition of the e-Book instantly. A synthesis of shamanic drum ways and Taoist philosophy, I Ching: The Tao of Drumming provides for the first time the rhythmic structure of the 64 hexagrams or potential human situations. Drum patterns derived from the hexagram images render the essence of each archetype of experience into sound, giving it physical, mental, and spiritual impulse. Through the natural law of resonance, the drummer then embodies the qualities and attributes necessary to effect change or harmonize with change in any given situation. With clear and practical explanations of each of the 64 hexagrams along with useful exercises and illustrations, the author demonstrates how drumming these simple rhythm archetypes brings the essential self into accord with the pattern or way of cyclical change, and that way is known as Tao.
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