Not a telescope but a mirror: it shows the shape of the moment you're standing in, not the future. Ask one honest thing.
數Today's hexagram
Plum Blossom · number cast
坤
the Receptive · yielding
Your hexagram is 坤 — not an answer but an image; sit with what it reflects right now.
This one isn't drawn — it's counted. Today's date and you become two numbers, and the numbers become a hexagram. It stays the same all day, however often you open this page. A different school from the cast below: it is given, not asked for.
Zhou Yi · yarrow stalks, three changes
The old way: 49 stalks, divided three times for one line, eighteen times for six. The four outcomes are not equally likely — of every 16 lines, 1 old yin · 5 young yang · 7 young yin · 3 old yang. Yang moves easily, yin tends to stay; that asymmetry is the teaching, and coins flatten it away.
Two hexagrams from two different schools, side by side: today's Plum Blossom hexagram (given, not asked for) and a yarrow-stalk hexagram for the one thing you ask.
Today's hexagram comes from Plum Blossom number-casting — the date and a per-person seed become two numbers, deterministically turned into a hexagram with exactly one moving line, no randomness. Asking a question casts by the traditional three-change yarrow-stalk method (49 stalks, divided three times per line) — its four outcomes aren't equal (of every 16 lines: 1 old yin, 5 young yang, 7 young yin, 3 old yang), so between 0 and 6 lines move. How many lines move decides which passage to read, by Zhu Xi's Yixue Qimeng rule (考變占).
We don't invent scripture: only 乾 and 坤 have classical text checked against source editions so far, so for the other 62 hexagrams we point to the exact line or judgment to read but show no words for it. One reading rule (the 前十卦/後十卦 split for 3 moving lines) isn't reproducible without its source table, so we don't use it — we say so rather than guess. Asking the same question twice doesn't draw again, honoring 蒙卦's warning against muddying a reading by repeating it. This is a mirror for reflection, never medical, legal, or financial advice.
Why do today's hexagram and my question use different methods?
They're two different schools shown side by side. Today's hexagram is Plum Blossom number-casting — deterministic, given whether or not you ask. Your question casts by the yarrow-stalk method — probabilistic, with a lopsided 1/16·5/16·7/16·3/16 spread across its four outcomes, and only exists because you asked.
Why does asking the same question again give the same hexagram?
We don't draw again — we return your first answer. That follows Hexagram 4 (蒙)'s own warning: the first asking is answered, but asking two or three times muddies it, and a muddied asking gets no answer.
Why is the classical text missing for most hexagrams?
So far only Hexagram 1 (乾) and Hexagram 2 (坤) have their passages checked against source editions. For the other 62, we show exactly which line or judgment to read, but leave the passage itself blank rather than paraphrase text we haven't verified.