Liu Yao Divination: How the Six-Lines Method Reads an I Ching Cast

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0800

Liu yao divination (六爻, “six lines”) throws the same hexagram as any I Ching coin cast — and then stops reading the book. Instead of the judgment and the line statements, it loads every line with a heavenly stem, an earthly branch and an element, and answers the question from how those elements feed and fight each other. The three-coin procedure on this site mentions “the six-lines school” in passing as the coin cast’s living tradition in China; this page opens it: what the method is, where it came from, how a cast is loaded in three steps, which line answers which question, and the same worked cast read both ways.

Liu Yao on Daokeyi

Liu Yao Divination: How the Six-Lines Method Reads an I Ching Cast