The Guided I Ching Journal

What it is

This journal doesn’t read the hexagrams for you. It gives you a place to keep what the reading stirred up — the question you actually asked, the figure you drew, what you decided, and what happened next.

Cast with three coins, or with the caster on this site when you have none on hand. Fill in one page. Two weeks later, come back and write down what happened.

What’s inside

• 100 record pages — one reading per page
• 100 unique prompts — a different one on every page
• A changing-lines chart for 0 to 6 changing lines — the one page most blank journals leave out
• A full 64-hexagram index — every name and figure, for looking things up at a glance
• Step-by-step coin casting — six lines, drawn from the first line at the bottom to the sixth at the top
• A code that casts for you when you have no coins on hand

What a page holds

The date. What you’re asking. How you cast. The primary and resulting hexagrams, with a small box beside each line for the ones that change. What the reading says. What you will do. And, two weeks later, what happened.

Where it fits with this site

The caster here gives you a reading in seconds. The journal is for what comes after: your own judgment, the decision you made, and the record you can return to.

The aim is your own clear judgment. A hexagram is a mirror for reflection, not a command to obey.

Same cast, two jobs: the tool gives you speed, the journal gives you time and a trace.