I_Ching
1.0 | Giacomo Tufano | Lifestyle

Release Date: 10/28/2008

This program facilitates the use of the I Ching (易經 or the Book of Changes), an ancient Chinese classic text, as an oracle. The book has long been used as an oracle and many different ways coexist to “cast” a reading, i.e., a hexagram, with its dynamic relationship to others.
The process of consulting the book as an oracle involves determining the hexagram by a method of random generation and then reading the text associated with that hexagram, and is a form of bibliomancy.
The program uses the same method. It simulate the casting of three coins for six times and then determines the corresponding hexagram.
The text related to this hexagram will represent "the Present", the actual state of the thing. Once a hexagram is determined, each line has been determined as either changing (old) or unchanging (young).
Any line in a hexagram that is old ("changing") adds additional meaning to that hexagram. Those are "the Mutations", the changes that are happening.
Taoist philosophy holds that powerful yin will eventually turn to yang (and vice versa), so a new hexagram is formed by transposing each changing yin line with a yang line, and vice versa. Thus, further insight into the process of change is gained by reading the text of this new hexagram and studying it as the result of the current change. This second hexagram is "the Future" and represents the resulting state after the current change.
The program will cast a new reading any time you will launch it. There is no way to "save" a reading, every cast is a single act that should be consumed on the very moment it happens.
This program is part of a series of freeware programs that helps the I Ching reading for various Operating Systems and platforms, sharing the same engine. You can find them via the main web site.

TAGS: new reading, oracle, mutations, i ching reading, taoist philosophy, many different ways, three coins, dynamic relationship, random generation, freeware programs, six times, operating systems, book of changes, hexagram, insight, platforms

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