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• Does the Oracle of Changes use the Yarrow Stalk method of divination?
• What are those little dots on some of the lines in the pool?
• The text box disappears from beneath the picture. What do I do?
• I'm using a Mac and am having problems with the Animated/Narrated version.

Does Visionary I-Ching use the Yarrow Stalk method of divination?


Yes. Actually both the CD-ROM and the Web site version of the Oracle of Changes use the Yarrow Stalk method of divination (we use animation showing tossing coins instead of sticks since most people are familiar with coins -- even though the lines are cast according to the Yarrow Stalk method). On the CD-ROM, you have a choice of selecting either the coin method or the Yarrow Stalk method.

What are those little dots on some of the lines in the pool?
When you are throwing the coins at the water's edge, the lines that are drawn in the pool after each toss are the six lines that make up a Chinese "hexagram," or six line figure of the I-Ching. There are two basic types of lines, solid and broken (the solid lines are shown as solid bars, and the broken lines are two short bars separated by a space). These are known as "yang" lines and "yin" lines respectively, and determine what kind of answer you will receive.

The "little dots" that appear in the middle of some of the lines (not all lines will have them) represent "moving" or "changing" lines. Each basic line (yang or yin) will either be "fixed" or "changing"; fixed lines are represented by the lines themselves. Changing lines are shown with a little "dot" in the middle. Changing lines do not directly modify the answer to your question (although there is more detailed information given when you have one or more changing lines). These lines are considered to be moving, or unstable.

When you click the "Future" button from the answer page, all changing lines "move" to their opposite (yang to yin, and yin to yang). You must have at least one changing line to be able to click the Future button. The result of these changes is a new hexagram, known as the future hexagram, which will lend more information to the answer. Specifically, it will show you what kinds of challenges and opportunities are likely to arise from the situation at hand.

The text box disappears from beneath the picture. What do I do?
If you are using a Macintosh and Internet Explorer, you may experience some problems with the Multimedia version of Visionary I-Ching. This is a bug with the browser, and we're currently searching for a fix. One "symptom" is that when you scroll, the text box disappears from beneath the picture. Sometimes, if you click your mouse beneath the picture, the text box will re-appear.

How to Fix:
Right now, the only way to fix this problem is to switch over to the non-narrated version. To do this, click on the Multimedia (w/narration) box at the top of your reading screen. This will "un-check" the box and display the regular text version of your reply.