If You Are Using Coins for the I-Ching
You are doing it wrong
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4 min readAug 28, 2021
The coin method
Using coins to cast hexagrams has been the standard method of casting hexagrams since the Tang Dynasty (608–907AD). We will quickly review this method as it is the easiest however, bear in mind that it does not produce the results with the same probabilities as the original yarrow stalk method.
Three heads is a solid line.
Two heads and a tail is a solid line that changes to a broken line.
Three tails is a broken line.
Two tails and one head is a broken line that changes to a solid line.