A QUESTION. A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE.

See your next move differently.

Bring a question you keep turning over. Explore an I Ching reading, then put what it opens up into your own words.

Bring a question you keep turning over. Use the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes, to reflect on change.

The I Ching is the Chinese Book of Changes. Its patterns offer a way to reflect on change.

Free reflection. No account needed.

Example reading · 02 / The Receptive

Should I accept a new role, or keep building my own project?

Clarify the shared purpose before choosing what support you can responsibly offer.

One question. A reading you can examine.

Should I accept a new role, or keep building my own project?

Modern reading

Kun's steady mare and finding direction after initial uncertainty suggest receptive cooperation. Clarify the shared purpose before choosing what support you can responsibly offer.

This is a perspective to consider, not evidence about your situation or a forecast.

Your reflection

Who needs support, and who owns the responsibility?

Classic text & historical translation

坤:元亨。利牝馬之貞。 君子有攸往,先迷後得主。 利西南得朋,東北喪朋。安貞,吉。

Khwan (represents) what is great and originating, penetrating, advantageous, correct and having the firmness of a mare. When the superior man (here intended) has to make any movement, if he take the initiative, he will go astray; if he follow, he will find his (proper) lord. The advantageousness will be seen in his getting friends in the south-west, and losing friends in the north-east. If he rest in correctness and firmness, there will be good fortune.

James Legge · James Legge 1882 · transcription with per-passage checks

Chinese source · Historical translation
Example brief · Fictional scenario

For this fictional choice, a useful next question is what each path would require from you, and what you can actually commit. The reading itself cannot tell you whether the job or business will succeed.

UNDERSTANDING THE SIX LINES

An old language for looking at change.

The I Ching expresses situations through six lines. Solid and broken lines form 64 patterns. In a reading, changing lines draw attention to movement within that pattern.

02 / The Receptive

Three lower lines change

11 / Peace

Relating pattern · Three lower lines change
  1. A line can be solid or broken.
  2. Six positions form one pattern.
  3. Changing lines lead to a relating pattern.

ChangeClear offers a modern reading alongside the source, so you can inspect the connection and decide what is useful.