I Ching (Book of Changes)

Use the button ^above^ to cast a hexagram (from the Chinese classic book, the I Ching). Each click casts 1 line. Cast 6 lines total. Click a 7th time to read the hexagram's text.

The hexagrams and lines in their movements and changes mysteriously reproduced the movements and changes of the macrocosm. By the use of yarrow stalks, one could attain a point of vantage from which it was possible to survey the condition of things. Given this perspective, the words of the oracle would indicate what should be done to meet the need of the time. --Richard Wilhelm: Introduction to the German edition