The I Ching Oracle

About this work

This project is a transcription of a portion of Nigel Richmond's self-published work, “The I Ching Oracle”. There are few physical copies available, though a scanned PDF copy can be easily found on the web. The hexagram names in each entry were taken from his other work, “Language of the Lines”. This project was undertaken with much respect for the author’s original work.

Select a primary hexagram:

▶ ䷀ 1—Responses to creative potential.

▶ ䷁ 2—Choices amongst activity.

▶ ䷂ 3—Difficulties in beginnings.

▶ ䷃ 4—Out of young ignorance.

▶ ䷄ 5—Lack of a path.

▶ ䷅ 6—Conflicting opposites.

▶ ䷆ 7—Many forms within one.

▶ ䷇ 8—The Diverse.

▶ ䷈ 9—Using what is small.

▶ ䷉ 10—Becoming real.

▶ ䷊ 11—Harmonious action.

▶ ䷋ 12—Standstill.

▶ ䷌ 13—Fulfilment in desire.

▶ ䷍ 14—Fulfilment.

▶ ䷎ 15—Adapting to the flow.

▶ ䷏ 16—In rest.

▶ ䷐ 17—Becoming. New form.

▶ ䷑ 18—Decay.

▶ ䷒ 19—Overgrowth.

▶ ䷓ 20—Wholeness.

▶ ䷔ 21—Oppression.

▶ ䷕ 22—Give way. Knowing both.

▶ ䷖ 23—Solitude.

▶ ䷗ 24—Return and make new.

▶ ䷘ 25—Natural innocence.

▶ ䷙ 26—The flow and the channel.

▶ ䷚ 27—Choice from the flow.

▶ ䷛ 28—Rigidity.

▶ ䷜ 29—The unfamiliar.

▶ ䷝ 30—Clinging to the real.

▶ ䷞ 31—Coming out of himself.

▶ ䷟ 32—Continuing. Branching out.

▶ ䷠ 33—Withdrawal.

▶ ䷡ 34—A store of power.

▶ ䷢ 35—Primal forces create change.

▶ ䷣ 36—Effort through resistance.

▶ ䷤ 37—Nourishing relationships.

▶ ䷥ 38—Opposition in time. (Taking turns.)

▶ ䷦ 39—Upheaval.

▶ ䷧ 40—Release from indecision.

▶ ䷨ 41—Failure of expectation.

▶ ䷩ 42—Strength to accomplish challenges.

▶ ䷪ 43—A peak of accumulation.

▶ ䷫ 44—Adapting to circumstances.

▶ ䷬ 45—Out of gestation.

▶ ䷭ 46—New growth out of maturity.

▶ ䷮ 47—Exhaustion of activity.

▶ ䷯ 48—Bringing out the life within.

▶ ䷰ 49—Breaking out of the old.

▶ ䷱ 50—Integration.

▶ ䷲ 51—Shaken in his being.

▶ ䷳ 52—A wider view.

▶ ䷴ 53—Persistence.

▶ ䷵ 54—Held back—breaks forth.

▶ ䷶ 55—Plentiful relationship.

▶ ䷷ 56—Search for new reality.

▶ ䷸ 57—Where is identity?

▶ ䷹ 58—It comes!

▶ ䷺ 59—Dissipation of energy.

▶ ䷻ 60—Scarcity.

▶ ䷼ 61—Awareness of wider reality.

▶ ䷽ 62—After reaching a level.

▶ ䷾ 63—Completion.

▶ ䷿ 64—Incomplete change.