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The Yi Jing, the Chinese tarot of wisdom.
The Yi Jing — best known in English as the I Ching, or Book of Changes — is one of the oldest symbolic systems in the world. Daoa draws on it for a modern online reading: honest guidance, without prediction.
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What is the Yi Jing?
The Yi Jing, or Book of Changes, is a Chinese book of wisdom built around 64 figures — the hexagrams. Each figure is an image: a situation, a tension, a movement. You don't consult the Yi Jing to know the future, but to look at a question from a new angle.
Yi Jing, I Ching, Yi King: what's the difference?
None: they are three transcriptions of the same Chinese word, 易經. “Yi Jing” is modern pinyin, “I Ching” the Wade-Giles romanization that stuck in English, “Yi King” the historical French spelling. The title translates as the Book of Changes. Whatever the spelling, it is the same book and the same gesture: drawing a figure and tying it to a question.
Chinese tarot, oracle, guidance
If you arrive from tarot or online oracles, the analogy helps: you draw a figure and interpret it in relation to a question. Daoa keeps that familiar gesture — love, work, life choices — but anchors it in a precise symbolic system rather than prediction.
How Daoa adapts it
Daoa offers a single-figure reading: you phrase the question that insists, you draw a card, and the AI ties the hexagram to your situation. The drawn card is the source of truth — the AI never chooses the result. You leave with a symbolic reading and a grounded next step.
What Daoa does not do
Daoa does not predict the future, promise a destiny, or replace your judgment. No “what will happen to you”, no “energies that announce”. An image of the situation, so you can decide consciously.
The 64 figures
Each figure of the Yi Jing — the Chinese tarot — is an image of a situation. Explore them one by one.
- The Creative1
- The Receptive2
- Initial Difficulty3
- Youthful Folly4
- Waiting5
- Conflict6
- The Army7
- Solidarity8
- Small Accumulation9
- Conduct10
- Peace11
- Stagnation12
- Fellowship13
- Great Possession14
- Modesty15
- Enthusiasm16
- Following17
- Work on Decay18
- Approach19
- Contemplation20
- Biting Through21
- Grace22
- Decline23
- Return24
- Innocence25
- Great Accumulation26
- Nourishment27
- Great Excess28
- The Abysmal29
- Fire30
- Influence31
- Duration32
- Retreat33
- Great Power34
- Progress35
- Darkening of Light36
- The Family37
- Opposition38
- Obstruction39
- Deliverance40
- Decrease41
- Increase42
- Breakthrough43
- Encounter44
- Gathering45
- Ascending46
- Exhaustion47
- The Well48
- Revolution49
- The Cauldron50
- The Arousing51
- Keeping Still52
- Gradual Progress53
- The Marrying Maiden54
- Abundance55
- The Wanderer56
- The Gentle57
- The Joyous58
- Dispersion59
- Limitation60
- Inner Truth61
- Small Excess62
- After Completion63
- Before Completion64
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