Hexagram-8 Home Page

Welcome to the home page for Hexagram-8, the I Ching mailing list.

All links function as of 29 June 1998.

Hexagram-8 Archives

We have an archive including a number of IC-related files and archives of all traffic back to the beginning of the list.

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News of 21 June 1998: The archive link above now functions; it was discombobulated for a few weeks by a reorganisation at Apocalypse. We have also replaced the list archives from the first seven months of Hex8 (April through November 1995); these had been missing for some time. The archives also contain a number of other files from early contributors to the list.

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I Ching Links

If you visit just one site...

I Ching Bookmarks ... visit this one, and you'll end up visiting all the rest. The single most comprehensive collection of I Ching links on the Web. Alphabetically organised and uncommented, still the best place to go to quench your thirst for I Ching info.

I Ching Readings

... are all over the place on the Web. Here are a couple of standards:

Eric's
Enternet ... have your question ready before you click here.

I Ching Software

Oracle of Changes ... www.iching.com is the home page of Visionary Networks, where you can sample and order their "Oracle of Changes," a nonsexist and contemporary way to access the I Ching through multimedia. The whole thing is based on the old Mac/DOS program "Synchronicity," but it's better, because they could include more on CD-ROM. OoC has a voiceover reading every hexagram and line, a quasi-VR environment called the Cave of the Oracle with a divinatory koi pool, the ability to save past readings in a log, Tarot-like images for every hexagram, and QuickTime movies of interviews with I Ching scholars. Recommended.
Talis I Ching Software ... looks like a pretty good program. Seems to be freeware nowadays.
Richard K. Thompson Software Development ... publishes "Chou I," an I Ching program for MS-DOS.
I Ching Master is a program in progress by Yours Truly that does I Ching hexagram analysis , as well as casting hexagrams in a number of different ways. Development is stalled for the moment, but it was planned to be part of a software suite for the Mac (and later Windows) called Cloudbusters. All I Ching Master files at the above link begin with "icm" and are dated. You need a Mac and something like Stuffit Expander to decode I Ching Master. (Note: If you download an older version that requires a password, the password is "grandfather".)

I Ching Texts

Intro to I Ching ... Has a lot of stuff, including a complete ASCII version of the I Ching and some UNIX source for the same.
I Ching ... Has the hexagram texts indexed in various ways and accessible from your Web browser.