Target Audience. This section is for everyone, but especially for those who is new to I Ching and who just started exploring its internal beauty. It suits also well to express readings when you simply want to get a detailed answer for your question in a quick and concise manner without deep diving into all-inclusive interdependent hexagram Universe.

So, let’s start - frame your question to I Ching, use your preferred casting method and get the primary hexagram. This Hexagram is a first step in exploring your situation. There are at least 5 other, important satellite hexagrams deeply related to your primary hexagram which you need to consider too – it is Nuclear, Inversed Opposite, Reversed, Rotated and Evolutional hexagrams. There is also a group of progressed hexagrams - potentially up to six - if your casted primary hexagram has moving lines.

Similar to how Yin and Yang complement each other and enpower everything in this world, these two groups - the static and dynamic hexagram transformations - complement each other helping to create a unified 360 degrees view on a situation revolving around your casted hexagram.

The top group of 5 hexagrams - the head of our diagram - are based on monogram-level transformations: Nuclear, Opposite, Reversed, Rotated and Evolutional. They depict the closest “relatives” of primary hexagram and can be applied to any casted hexagram - with or without moving lines.

Second group - the tail of our reading layout diagram - depicts the progression of any change in your situation as specified by moving lines of your primary hexagram.

Described above mainstream reading layout was based upon 2 groups of satellite hexagrams orbiting the primary hexagram:

1. Monogram-based transformed hexagrams group
2. Group of progressed hexagrams

Advanced reading approach outlined in this section lifts hexagram interpretation to the next high level by adding digrams-based transformations on top of monogram-based ones used in mainstream reading.

1. Monogram-based transformed hexagrams group
2. Digram-based transformed hexagrams group
3. Group of progressed hexagrams

This, second orbit - which reflects digram-level transformations - sheds a light to more subtle development happening around your primary hexagram - it shows how digram-level changes affect your situation depicted by primary hexagram. As a result of this upgrade, we will get the following reading layout:

Presented here reading layout brings together all knowledge of static and dynamic hexagram transformations. It combines all monograms-, digrams- and trigrams transformation techniques with enhanced progressed hexagram layout, which includes now three new dynamic transformations - Yin-Change-Operator, Yang-Change-Operator and Anti-Hexagram transformation - joining them all into one, all-inclusive reading layout.

Below picture shows all three reading layouts side-by-side.

If your casted hexagram has multiple moving lines, then this change can be interpreted in the multiple, alternative, and most importantly - not always agreeing with each other - ways. Which of these interpretations to use in your reading - it is a matter of your personal choice. To learn more about existing here alternative approaches feel free to visit our Moving Lines page. It will help you better understand your options and to choose your very own preferred method of interpretation which works best for you.

Our preferred method - used consistently accross all web pages in this portal - is based on so-called All Lines - Consecutive Progression Approach. This technique is known for its logical consistency and all inclusive character.

So, your casted hexagram has multiple moving / changing lines (potentially up to 6) and this is how you do a reading in this case.

In a nutshell, difference between this all-inclusive approach in handling moving lines and all other alternative techniques is the same as a difference between a full-length full-format movie and a static photograph. Both provide you with a view to your inquired situation, but they do it in very different manner. One approach fully supports and endorces dynamics of situation showing its fluidity and sequential progression in time, when other approaches provide only a single angle, snapshot-style, isolated view to the situation in question.

I Ching hexagrams have thousands of years of history with rich knowledge and numerious commentaries developed by I Ching Scholars for each of 64 hexagrams. With wide abandance of related information, which describes the hexagram in question, it is very important to present this info in the unified orderly manner.

To better explain a specifics of used here approach let's consider as example a Hexagram #40, already discussed by us in Moving Lines and Gua Transformations pages of this portal.