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Liu Yao Divination

Hold a specific question in mind and toss three coins six times (online, or with your own coins and enter the results). The tool builds the primary and changed hexagrams, dresses them by the Jing Fang eight palaces with Na Jia stems and branches, the Six Relations, Self and Other lines and the Six Spirits, and marks the use god with its strength against the month and day.

Each toss uses three coins: heads count 3, tails 2. A total of 6 is old yin (moving), 7 young yang, 8 young yin, 9 old yang (moving). Lines build upward; the first toss is the bottom line.

Liu Yao guide: dressing the hexagram, the eight palaces, Six Relations, use god and strength →

How is Liu Yao different from an I Ching reading?

Both cast a hexagram the same way; they differ in how they read it. An I Ching reading reads the judgement, the image and the line texts of the Book of Changes, and focuses on what the situation means and what attitude to take. Liu Yao hardly reads the text at all: it gives each line an earthly branch and a relation, picks a use god for the question, and judges its strength by the month and day of the casting, focusing on whether things will work out. You can open the primary and changed hexagrams to read their texts too: one casting, two ways of reading.

Full comparison: I Ching reading vs Liu Yao →
Try an I Ching reading instead (judgement and line texts) →

Liu Yao is a traditional divination method; the result reflects one traditional way of reading, not a prediction. The automatic notes cover the use god against the month, day, voidness and its own change, the source, taboo and foe, how the Self and Other lines relate, and six-clash and six-harmony hexagrams; they leave out three-harmony frames, when hidden lines emerge, timing and the hexagram as a whole, and are for learning. For important decisions, seek professional advice.

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