Two Skies
English

Ask the I Ching with three coins

Six tosses give you a hexagram. Three tarot cards answer the same question, so you can see where East and West agree.

Free, with no sign-up. One question at a time, and the old books say not to ask the same one twice. We don't read questions about health, death, pregnancy, the law or money.

The method

The coin method, called 六爻 (liu yao) in Chinese, is how the Book of Changes has been consulted for about a thousand years. The old manuals read your hexagram against the month and day you asked.

Where this comes from

The hexagram text is from the Zhou Yi (周易). The chart follows Zeng Shan Bu Yi (增刪卜易), a Qing manual of the method, and Huo Zhu Lin (火珠林), and our code reproduces the table of all 64 hexagrams printed in Zeng Shan Bu Yi. The English for those is ours. The cards are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. What they mean comes from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, in his words, leaving out what he says about money, law, illness and disaster. A quotation shows what an old book says and proves nothing: this is for entertainment and self-reflection.