I Ching 2 for PC and Mac

1. Taoist philosophy holds that powerful yin will eventually turn to yang (and vice versa), so a new hexagram is formed by transposing each changing yin line with a yang line, and vice versa.

2. The Ultimate I Ching Reader, this program facilitates the use of the I Ching (or the Book of Changes), an ancient Chinese classic text, as an oracle.

3. Thus, further insight into the process of change is gained by reading the text of this new hexagram and studying it as the result of the current change.

4. In this excerpt from the wonderful book of Douglas Adams "Mostly Harmless", simply substituting 'I Ching' to 'Astrology' and 'coins and signs' to 'stars and planets', you'll get a very good description of what I Ching is.

5. The process of consulting it in this way involves determining the hexagram by a method of random generation and then reading the text associated with that hexagram.

6. Once a hexagram is determined, each line has been determined as either changing (old) or unchanging (young).

7. The program will permit also to browse signs and lines as in the original book to allow meditation and lateral thinking.

8. The "Sign" is the resulting hexagram, while the "changing lines" are the lines that are changing from one state to the other.

9. The program simulates the casting of three coins for six times and then determines the corresponding hexagram.

10. Any line in a hexagram that is old ("changing") adds additional meaning to that hexagram.

11. This second hexagram is "the Future" and represents the resulting state after the current change.