The
I-Ching (
Book Of Changes)
, is an ancient Chinese oracle matrix thought to be written by Fu Xi around 1000 BCE. This Confucian divination text, traditionally cast using yarrow sticks, contains 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams for insight into human experience within the wisdom of nature and patterns of the cosmos.
Download, print and make the dice (normal versions or geometric) or use dice you have already. Roll directly onto the journal to land on a page/image or use multiple dice to generate a number between 2 and 72, the total number of pages in the journal. The highest number you will achieve with two dice, is 6 x 6 = 36. If you double this, it makes 72. You can also add rather than multiply the numbers so 5 + 7 = 57. 1-64 can correspond to the 64 hexagrams, with the remaining 8 corresponding to the 8 trigrams.
You can either follow the numbering system of the journal 1-72, or apply the 64 hexagrams to all the images except for the 8 fortune teller images, and these correspond to the 8 trigrams, adding another level of interpretation.
I-Ching hexagrams.
Single/multiplayer dice game:
1-22: Match up with
Major Arcana of tarot. Even numbers: Go back in time - explore the article through your 7-year-old eyes, read it aloud, what would that version of you want to say?
Odd numbers: Ask yourself or your neighbour a question, then skip a go.
Numbers 3,6,9: Write a haiku in response to the page.
Numbers 11, 22 and 72: Meditate, contemplate, and create a ritual for the page.