I Ching Basics — Read in Order

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  1. 01I Ching Divination: Where to StartWhat the Zhou Yi actually is, the three moving parts of a reading, and the two methods still in use.
  2. 02Yin, Yang and the Five PhasesWhy yin and yang are an alternation rather than two substances, and how the generating and controlling cycles carry every later judgement.
  3. 03The Eight TrigramsWhy there are exactly eight, the one sentence of 说卦传 worth memorising, and how eight becomes sixty-four.
  4. 04Casting: How a Six Lines Chart Is ProducedThe yarrow count the Xi Ci preserves, the three-coin method that replaced it, and why a cast yields two hexagrams rather than one.
  5. 05Najia: Installing the Stems and BranchesThe step credited to Jing Fang that turns six lines into a chart: stems to trigrams, the eight palaces, and how a branch becomes a relative.
  6. 06Shi and Ying: the Ruling and Responding LinesSelf and other, always three lines apart; where the ruling line sits and why; the go-between lines; and why it is not the subject line.
  7. 07The Six RelativesFive labels derived from one rule: who counts as “me”, why the same branch changes its label, and the line of the Huo Zhu Lin that…
  8. 08Choosing the Yong Shen: Which Relative Answers Your QuestionThe subject line, the standard assignments, why Wealth and Officer depend on the querent’s sex, and the four roles that fall out of the choice.
  9. 09Reading the Six Relatives: Support, Threat and TimingThe order to read in, why the month command outweighs the figure, moving against still, and the two ways a subject line is present but unusable.
  10. 10Strength: the Month Command and the DayThe couplet from the Qian Jin Fu that ranks the moment above the figure, the five gradings, and why strength is judged before meaning.
  11. 11Void and Hidden LinesThe two ways a line is on the chart yet unusable: the void verse of Zeng Shan Bu Yi checked against the sixty-day cycle, and the…