Das Buch der Wandlungen
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Das Orakel wird befragt…
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The I Ching (易經, "Book of Changes") is the longest continuously used oracle in the world. Its roots are in Western Zhou China (around 1000 BC), and the text we read today was compiled between the 9th and 3rd centuries BC, with contributions attributed — probably partly legendarily — to King Wen, the Duke of Zhou, and Confucius.
It is a system of 64 hexagrams, each formed by six lines that can be solid (yang) or broken (yin). There are therefore 2⁶ = 64 possible combinations. Each hexagram has a name (e.g., "The Creative", "The Receptive", "The Difficulty at the Beginning") and an associated interpretive text.
Traditionally, the consultant generates a hexagram by tossing three coins six times (simplified system from the 10th century) or manipulating 50 yarrow stalks (classical method, slower). Each toss defines one line of the hexagram, and may indicate changing lines that transform the first hexagram into a second.
At Tarotsim, the application does the digital tossing. The AI receives the main hexagram, any mutation hexagram, and your question, and returns an interpretation combining the classic text (in Richard Wilhelm's 20th-century translation) with your context.
Carl Gustav Jung, in his preface to Richard Wilhelm's translation (1949), described the I Ching as the perfect example of what he called synchronicity: the symbolic correspondence between an exterior event (coin toss) and an inner psychic content (the consultant's question). The I Ching doesn't predict; it responds to what already moves within whoever consults it.
Richard Wilhelm (1923, German; 1950 in English via Cary F. Baynes) remains the most used reference. Stephen Karcher or Richard John Lynn (1994) are modern alternatives.
Rarely. Answers are metaphorical, in images from agricultural and military ancient China ("the dragon emerges from the field"). You need to translate these images to your situation.