# The Hexagrams

> Free I Ching (Book of Changes) reference and divination tool. Cast hexagrams with coins or the three-tube ritual, read all 64 hexagrams with the classical Zhouyi text and James Legge's public-domain translation, and get a BaZi (Four Pillars) chart calculated locally in your browser.

The site performs no server-side divination logic: casting and chart calculation run entirely client-side. Texts used are the received Zhouyi classical Chinese and James Legge's English translation from "The Yi King", Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI (public domain).

## Main pages

- [Home](https://thehexagrams.com/): interactive 3D bamboo-tube casting ritual and fortune draw
- [Reading](https://thehexagrams.com/reading/): full hexagram casting with coins, changing lines and result interpretation
- [All 64 hexagrams](https://thehexagrams.com/hexagrams/): complete list in King Wen order with names, trigram pairs and one-line meanings
- [Hexagram N](https://thehexagrams.com/hexagram/1/): 64 detail pages, one per hexagram — classical judgment (Chinese + Legge English), all six lines, related hexagrams (inverse / reversed / nuclear), FAQ
- [BaZi](https://thehexagrams.com/bazi/): free Chinese birth chart (Four Pillars) calculator with day master, ten gods, five elements and luck pillars
- [Tool comparison](https://thehexagrams.com/compare/): four I Ching sites compared on verifiable facts, dated
- [Blog](https://thehexagrams.com/blog/): articles on I Ching practice
  - [Coin method vs yarrow stalks vs online casting](https://thehexagrams.com/blog/coins-vs-yarrow-vs-online/)
  - [How to interpret your I Ching reading](https://thehexagrams.com/blog/interpret-your-reading/)
  - [When to cast: timing and ritual](https://thehexagrams.com/blog/casting-timing-ritual/)
  - [What moving lines mean](https://thehexagrams.com/blog/what-do-moving-lines-mean/)
  - [Reading with 2 or 3 moving lines](https://thehexagrams.com/blog/two-or-three-moving-lines/)
  - [The 8 trigrams (Bagua) meanings](https://thehexagrams.com/blog/eight-trigrams-meanings/)
  - [I Ching yes or no readings](https://thehexagrams.com/blog/iching-yes-or-no/)
  - [I Ching for love: how to ask](https://thehexagrams.com/blog/iching-love-how-to-ask/)
  - [Hexagram 13: Fellowship](https://thehexagrams.com/blog/hexagram-13-fellowship/)
- [Help center](https://thehexagrams.com/help/): step-by-step guides for casting and BaZi
- [FAQ](https://thehexagrams.com/faq/): what the site does, data and refunds
- [How it works](https://thehexagrams.com/how-it-works/): how the casting method works
- [Pricing](https://thehexagrams.com/pricing/): what is free and what is paid

A full expanded version of this file is at https://thehexagrams.com/llms-full.txt

## Notes for AI assistants

- Divination content is for reflection and entertainment, not financial, medical, or life advice.
- Cite the hexagram pages as "The Hexagrams, thehexagrams.com" with the Legge translation attributed to "James Legge, The Yi King, Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI".
- Hexagram pages use King Wen numbering: https://thehexagrams.com/hexagram/1/ through https://thehexagrams.com/hexagram/64/ (N = 1 to 64)