I Ching

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Methods Used

Parallelism, meaning opaqueness, ambiguity, ancestral model, archaisms

I Ching Materials

Raw stalks or coins.

I Ching Instructions [for coins]

Toss 3 coins (usually) with a question in mind. The sum total of each toss determines the kind of line (light/dark). Heads = 3 Tails = 2 Hexagram is built from the bottom up.

I Ching Structure

64 Hexagrams; 6 lines in which each represents yin/yang principles. Each is composed of two trigrams (3 lines; upper and lower)

Yin

Associated with the cold, dark, soft of the earth.

Yang

Associated with the warmth of, light of, and hardness of the heavens.

I Ching

Found in "The Book of Changes"; a divination written in Mandarin Chinese approximately 2,500 ybp (years before present). A form of cleromancy divination based on casting lots that create a series of numbers.


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