Cast a hexagram. Read what the book says.

Three coins or fifty yarrow stalks, six lines from the bottom up, and the reading lands on the hexagram itself: the Chinese text clause by clause, James Legge's 1882 translation beside it, each of the six lines on its own page, and the oldest forms of the characters in its name.

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This month: 23 剝 Bō

This month's hexagram

23 剝 Bō, Stripping Away

From 霜降 (frost's descent) to 小雪 (light snow), in the Han calendar tradition that lays twelve hexagrams over the year. Five yin lines; one yang left at the top, the last fruit on the tree.

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A reading tool and a reference, free and without accounts. The text is the 周易 as kept at 維基文庫; the English is Legge's, public domain since 1882; the character forms are from Academia Sinica's 小學堂 (CC0). Readings you cast stay in your own browser. No outcome is promised: a reading is something to think with, not a prediction.

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