You do not need to understand everything at once

Eight lessons, starting from zero.

Each lesson offers hands-on exercises. Read, try, and look back again, building your own understanding step by step.

1. 01 Yin, Yang, and the Order of Six Lines

   Learn the two symbols every hexagram is made of, and why the six lines are counted from the bottom up.

2. 02 The Eight Trigrams and Upper and Lower Trigrams

   Three lines make a trigram. Every six-line hexagram is two trigrams stacked, a lower one and an upper one.

3. 03 Building the 64 Hexagrams and the Original Hexagram

   Eight lower trigrams times eight upper trigrams make sixty-four. The one you arrive at is called the primary hexagram.

4. 04 Changing Lines

   Some lines are marked as changing. Learn how a moving line arises and what the mark actually means.

5. 05 The Resulting Hexagram and Comparing Changes

   Flip every moving line and you get a second hexagram, the resulting hexagram. Set it beside the primary one and the change becomes visible.

6. 06 Hexagram Judgments and Line Texts

   Each hexagram has a judgement; each line has its own statement. Learn what these texts are and which one to read.

7. 07 Interpretation Methods and Their Limits

   The original text, the classical commentary and the modern explanation are three different layers. Also: what this method cannot do.

8. 08 A Complete Practice Case

   Put the first seven lessons together: from six numbers all the way to a passage of original text.