The bottom green area may or may not reveal particular LINES from 1 at the beginning to 6 at the top of the Hexagram. If numbers are seen here, they refer to the LINES in the reading you have throw and can represent an added emphasis on aspects of your question.

Technically speaking these LINES can be used to construct a follow-up Hexagram to the one you have thrown to reveal yet further councilling, but that is beyond the scope of this version we have written for Internet Browsers.

If you own a printed copy of the I Ching, you can find out what that secondary Hexagram might be by looking at the small diagram in the image we provide with each Hexagram, you will see a set of six lines. Simply start from the bottom first line and exchange straight for broken or broken for straight lines ONLY for any LINES that show up in the bottom green area. This will effectively reveal the second hexagram, which you can then refer to.

HISTORY
We originally released the I Ching for the 21st Century ahead of schedule as a software package for the Amiga computer over 10 year ago! The Internet was a rumored, closed-circuit 'club' mainly used by the Pentagon and Universities. Since going on line in 1995 our website has received countless thousands of hits from people who are enjoying 'yet another version' of the I Ching.

For our regular users we hope you will like our new look and for people just discovering us we trust you will appreciate whatever meaning you decide to glean from this computer version. We wrote this version to de-mystify the haze of mysticism that has surrounded this Ancient Book of Changes. In the beginning it was simply a book of wisdom but like so many treasured texts, people have, over time, developed a special and deserved reverence for its time-tested wisdom.

We hope that this current 'interpretation' of the Book of Changes is no less valid, insofar as we have chosen to update it to reflect the changing times. Our primary criteria was to modify the ancient I Ching's tendency towards paternalism and cultural elitism. For our part we feel we have brought a level of gender neutrality to our interpretation and in most cases, while we acknowledge Superior and Inferior ways of living we have avoided classifying people themselves as either Superior or Inferior. This was our decision since we always found ourselves exercising that 'filter' to try and find the most equitable and Universal meaning to our questions.

There is of course no right or wrong way to interpret the results, there is merely 'more' to add to the contemplation of any question before deciding the meaning and possible course of action. We of course do not have any control over how you interpret the results, that decision will always be yours and yours alone to resolve.

All we advocate is enjoying the search, as we do, for more meaning.