u/Green-Albatross951

After years of consulting the Yi I started keeping a tally of which hexagrams came up most often. The intuition was simple: if the Yi is responsive to whatever question you bring, you’d expect a fairly even distribution across the 64 hexagrams over many readings at about 1.5% per hexagram.

What I found is that a small number come up at five or ten times that rate during a particular phase of life, and they tend to be the same ones across very different questions.

To me that’s not noise. It’s the Yi naming the underlying terrain that all my surface questions are sitting on.

The corollary I didn’t expect is what’s interesting: the hexagrams that don’t appear at all are often as informative as the ones that do. Looking back through months of my own journal, the long absences haven’t tracked with what’s irrelevant to my life, they’ve tracked with what I’ve been avoiding asking about.

Hexagrams I’d never cast would suddenly arrive once I named the situation honestly to myself or to someone close.

I’m not making a metaphysical claim about this. The simpler reading is that the hexagrams I don’t cast tend to mirror the questions I haven’t yet learned to ask and once I ask them, the relevant hexagrams arrive. Which is interesting whether you read the Yi as oracle, as Jungian mirror, or as a set of archetypes.

What're some patterns that have emerged from your I Ching journals?

Have a supremely fortunate day!

🙏🏽

Long time reader, first time poster. I made a small static site that folds it all together: cast the coins (auto or manual), and get the primary hexagram with Wilhelm/Baynes (scholarly translation) and Blofeld (practical translation) visible by default, with other translations one click away, as well as resulting hexagram. Changing lines and the resulting hexagram show up properly.

NO AI, no commentary / interpretation, no signups. Local journal if you want to save readings. That's it.

www.myJING.app

I made a "recurring energy" section where you can track which come up the most/least, and filter by time period, and category.

Genuinely open to feedback on translation choices, reading order, things I've got wrong. Built it for my own use but figured others might find it useful too.

If you find it useful, I would be grateful if you could recommend it in any way you can.

Have a supremely fortunate day!

🙏🏽

After years of consulting the Yi I started keeping a tally of which hexagrams came up most often. The intuition was simple: if the Yi is responsive to whatever question you bring, you’d expect a fairly even distribution across the 64 hexagrams over many readings at about 1.5% per hexagram.

What I found is that a small number come up at five or ten times that rate during a particular phase of life, and they tend to be the same ones across very different questions.

To me that’s not noise. It’s the Yi naming the underlying terrain that all my surface questions are sitting on.

The corollary I didn’t expect is what’s interesting: the hexagrams that don’t appear at all are often as informative as the ones that do. Looking back through months of my own journal, the long absences haven’t tracked with what’s irrelevant to my life, they’ve tracked with what I’ve been avoiding asking about.

Hexagrams I’d never cast would suddenly arrive once I named the situation honestly to myself or to someone close.

I’m not making a metaphysical claim about this. The simpler reading is that the hexagrams I don’t cast tend to mirror the questions I haven’t yet learned to ask and once I ask them, the relevant hexagrams arrive. Which is interesting whether you read the Yi as oracle, as Jungian mirror, or as a set of archetypes.

For a long time I tracked all this on paper. When that got out of hand I built a small tool to do it. Please ask me for it if interested, the moderators don’t take kindly to links in posts.

The “Recurring Energy” panel ranks all 64 hexagrams by your personal frequency including the absences sorted at the bottom. Primary, resulting and changing lines as separate columns, with time filters if you want to see the pattern over a particular period. Does anyone have any further ideas on ways to zero in on the metadata? Note all journal entries are locally saved, so there are no privacy issues here.

If anyone tries it I’d genuinely be curious what patterns you’d find and especially whether anyone else has noticed long-term absences tracking with avoidance more than irrelevance.

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