The Original I Ching
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䷗ · the oracle as a graph

The map of the reading

Every reading is a jump in the hypercube

Click each line to set it yin or yang, mark the moving ones and watch the resulting jump.

A consultation of the I Ching is already a move on the graph: you start from one hexagram and the moving lines carry you to another. The distance of the jump is, exactly, the number of lines that change. Build a reading below (or cast the coins) and watch the path.

Build the reading
L6
L5
L4
L3
L2
L1

the line toggles yin/yang · the circle marks it as moving

no change
jump distance: 0 lines
Present hexagram
2. Kūn
☷ Earth / ☷ Earth
000000₂ = 0
static
Future hexagram
2. Kūn
☷ Earth / ☷ Earth
000000₂ = 0

With no moving lines the reading rests: the present hexagram is also the future one. Mark a line as moving to see the jump.