Where does the I Ching come from?

The I Ching emerged in China as a fortune-telling manual at least three thousand years ago. It began, so the story goes, with eight three-lined symbols called trigrams, which represented all of the fundamental phenomena in the universe.

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In respect to this, what did the 8 trigrams represent according to the i ching?

The four phenomena act on the eight trigrams (ba gua), eight eights are sixty-four hexagrams." The eight diagrams symbolize the eight natural phenomena: sky, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain and lake. So, the picture represented the ancient Chinese early knowledge of the universe. How do I read I Ching changing lines? If the two moving lines are both Yin or both Yang, consult the lower one. If there are three moving lines, consult only the middle one. If there are four moving lines, consult only the upper of the two non-moving lines. If there are five moving lines, consult only the other, non-moving line.

How many hexagrams are in I Ching?

64 hexagrams The 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching claim to represent nothing less than the archetypal situations of human life itself. To "read" the I-Ching, a person uses either coin tosses or yarrow stalks to generate a hexagram. How do I find my hexagram? Put the first line as the bottom and draw each successive line above the previous one. For some I Ching guides, you can use the total "score" that your numbers added up to to find the hexagram value, rather than the line pattern. If you get six 6s, this would add up to 36. Six 9s would add up to 63.

Also, how do i use my i ching card?

One may also ask how do you throw the i ching?