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The I Ching: A Beginner's Guide to the 64 Hexagrams

A complete, practical beginner's guide to the I Ching, written for readers starting from zero. It covers what the book is, how to cast a hexagram with three coins, how to read changing lines, and how one hexagram moves into the next. All 64 hexagrams are presented in King Wen order: the hexagram figure, the judgement, the image and the six line texts, each in clear English, with plain-language commentary on what the hexagram means and what it means when a line changes. 376 pages, in PDF and ePub. Every hexagram chapter ends with a link back to that hexagram's own page on the site. The English is an original rendering informed by the public-domain scholarship of James Legge, and reproduces no modern copyrighted translation. Free to share in its entirety with attribution. Written by Gavin, maker of Your I Ching , a free online I Ching where you ask a question and cast the six lines by hand. Free reference pages for all 64 hexagrams: youriching.com/hexagrams

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