Plum Blossom

Plum Blossom Numerology (梅花易数, Mei Hua Yi Shu) is the I Ching cast with nothing in your hands. No coins, no yarrow stalks: the hexagram is built from numbers — a number someone says, the strokes of a written word, or most often the date and hour of the moment you ask. Three small divisions turn those numbers into a hexagram and a moving line, and the reading is then done by splitting the hexagram into two halves, the body and the use, and asking which feeds or attacks the other. This page gives the arithmetic step by step, works one cast from start to finish, and sets the method beside the coin cast and liu yao, the two other ways this site reads the same sixty-four hexagrams.