Royal Banana!

Maybe have you noticed that the yellow color is difficult to see on white background, making it difficult to distinguish between the old and young yin, the 6s and the 8s. After several tries, I have resorted to this chart and figured out...

Taoscopy for Android: update 5.8.0

The new version of Taoscopy for Android is available. This is the last update before the next major version that will dramatically change the project. The Twitter and Facebook buttons are gone, because Taoscopy now uses Android's...

Validating Comments

When I started studying the I Ching, I promptly realized that the hexagrams were describing situations. The comments associated with each hexagram and line either give proper advice, or describe the situation and eventually predict its...

Can the I Ching predict the future?

The title itself of this blog post resumes the difficulty that we face. I could have chosen instead "Can I predict the future by using the I Ching?" or "Does the I Ching's oracle know the future?". This is a difficult question, because...

Interpreting multiple lines: the pivot method revisited

The pivot methodWhen obtaining a multiple lines reading, you can use one line or groupe of lines as a pivot and amend it with the remaining line (or alternatively take one line as pivot and amend it with the remaining line or group of...

What is purity?

43.3 (43 > 58)SituationOne drops the less important.

A promising methodology for interpreting multiple changing lines

While the interpretation of unchanging hexagrams and single changing line hexagrams, it has always been difficult to interpret multiple lines.Several methods have been suggested, which all gave mixed results. Sometimes they were...