Yi Jing · Every day
The hexagram of the day
Each morning, a Yi Jing figure opens the day — that is Daoa's ritual. Here is today's: not a prediction, but an image to carry with you, a way of looking at the day differently.
Today · Wednesday, July 22, 2026
23 · Decline
剥 Bō
The Mountain above the Earth: a single solid line, at the top, undermined by five broken ones. The image of erosion, of what comes undone from below.
What it illuminates
Splitting Apart lights up the phases when what once held crumbles, when frontal resistance no longer makes sense. You don't fight winter; you take shelter and preserve the seed.
For a decision, the figure invites you to yield ground in time: “what must I let go to protect the essential, rather than lose everything by clinging?”.
The Image
The mountain crumbles down onto the earth. Seeing this, those above secure their place by making firm what lies beneath them.
Daoa's wording, written after the public-domain classical translations (James Legge, 1882; Charles de Harlez, 1889).
A question to keep
What must you let go in time to protect what matters?
Read the full figure: Decline →
Receive your figure every morning
In the app, every journal page opens on a received figure — your own. Write facing it, and draw a card when a question ripens.
Frequently asked questions
- How is the hexagram of the day chosen?
- It is derived from the date: one figure among the 64, the same for everyone, renewed each night (Paris time). In the Daoa app, your morning figure is your own — received on your own journal page.
- Does the daily hexagram predict anything?
- No. The figure announces nothing: it is an image to meditate — a way of looking at the day, not an answer. The Yi Jing illuminates a situation; it does not predict the future.
- How is it different from a reading?
- The daily figure is received: it opens the day without a question asked. A reading answers a gesture: you phrase a question, you draw a card, and the figure is read in relation to it. The two complete each other — the morning ritual, then a reading when a question ripens.