The Visionary I Ching
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The guidance of the I Ching will turn on and tune up your intuition. If you get even one outside-the-box idea or inspiration that helps you make a more creative or timely decision, the Visionary I Ching has done its job — helping you to make better decisions, better relationships and less stress!
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Note: The App is listed in the stores as “Visionary I Ching Oracle Cards” (it is not listed under Divination Foundation or Paul O’Brien)
You can find the Visionary I Ching for iPhone, Android, Amazon devices and iPad!
If you’ve cast the coins or yarrow stalks, you can use this chart to look up your hexagram number, which links to that reading. The first three lines you cast are the “Lower Trigram” and the second three form the “Upper Trigram.” Remember that if you have changing lines, pay special attention to those lines. You can get a sense of what the future holds by looking up your future hexagram that the changing lines produce when they are flipped into their opposite.
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Hexagram Lookup
Upper Trigram | ||||||||||
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Quian | Zhen | Kan | Gen | Kun | Xun | Li | Dui | |||
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Quian | ![]() | 1 | 34 | 5 | 26 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 43 | |
Zhen | ![]() | 25 | 51 | 3 | 27 | 24 | 42 | 21 | 17 | |
Kan | ![]() | 6 | 40 | 29 | 4 | 7 | 59 | 64 | 47 | |
Gen | ![]() | 33 | 62 | 39 | 52 | 15 | 53 | 56 | 31 | |
Kun | ![]() | 12 | 16 | 8 | 23 | 2 | 20 | 35 | 45 | |
Xun | ![]() | 44 | 32 | 48 | 18 | 46 | 57 | 50 | 28 | |
Li | ![]() | 13 | 55 | 63 | 22 | 36 | 37 | 30 | 49 | |
Dui | ![]() | 10 | 54 | 60 | 41 | 19 | 61 | 38 | 58 |
Other I Ching Books and Resources
- How To: Give Yourself an I Ching Reading
- Gallery: Hexagram Artwork
- Article: History of the I Ching
Like any other ancient text, I Ching books on the market today offer an assortment of translations to choose from. Some translators have modernized the text, removing gender bias and archaic language. Others have elaborated on the explanations, and only roughly paraphrase the original text. There is a wide range of quality in translations. Although the Wilhelm/Baynes version by Princeton Press, with its forward by Carl Jung, is the most popular translation of the Chinese, the translation was probably tainted by the politics of the 19th century and tends to be slightly Germanic (having been translated first into German, then English from that). Also, the Princeton version preserves the militarism and sexism of patriarchal China going back to the time of Confucius and before. Paul O’Brien’s modern interpretation, The Visionary I Ching, is in basic alignment with the Princeton version, but it is non-sexist and non-militaristic, and among the easiest for Westerners to understand and use, which is why we had produced it in the form of multimedia software (on Tarot.com) and now offer it to the world in e-book form.