Online I Ching Reading: What Makes a Reading Useful?

There are many online I Ching reading tools now. Some are helpful. Many are too thin to be useful.

The question is not whether the reading happens online. The question is whether the structure of the reading is preserved.

What a useful online I Ching reading should include

A strong online reading should show:

• the original hexagram
• moving lines
• the changed hexagram
• readable source text
• some interpretive structure

If it gives only one fortune-style paragraph, the reading is usually too shallow.

Why context matters

The best online readings help you move from:

• question
• to cast
• to structure
• to interpretation

That is much stronger than a random answer generator.

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