I Ching Oracle

Michael Schwarzchild

About this app

A serious, complete I Ching for those who take the Oracle seriously.

This app brings the full depth of the I Ching to your phone — not a simplified or gamified version, but a faithful implementation grounded in the two greatest Western translations: Richard Wilhelm's German rendering of the text, carried into English by Cary F. Baynes, and James Legge's scholarly translation. Additional commentary has been developed by ClaudeAI in the spirit of the originals.

What sets this apart:
- Lines are cast using the authentic yarrow-stalk probabilities, not the abbreviated three-coin method — giving old yang, young yang, old yin, and young yin their correct statistical weights
- Complete Judgments, Images, and Commentaries for all 64 hexagrams
- Moving lines with full interpretation, generating the relating hexagram
- Tuan Zhuan and Xiang Zhuan — the Confucian commentaries on Judgment and Image
- Wilhelm/Baynes, Legge, and ClaudeAI perspectives clearly labeled throughout
- Save any reading as a text file for reflection or journaling
- Works offline

The I Ching does not offer fortune-telling in any ordinary sense. It speaks to what is in your heart, in metaphor, at the exact moment you consult it. Confucius said it had only been wrong once — and subsequent scholars have suggested he was mistaken even about that.

For the superior man, perseverance furthers.

What’s new

I Ching Oracle — scholarly divination app featuring all 64 hexagrams with Wilhelm/Baynes translations.