I Ching 2: an Oracle 8.4.1 - App Store

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About I Ching 2: an Oracle

The Ultimate I Ching Reader, this program facilitates the use of the I Ching (or the Book of Changes), an ancient Chinese classic text, as an oracle. The process of consulting it in this way involves determining the...

The Ultimate I Ching Reader, this program facilitates the use of the I Ching (or the Book of Changes), an ancient Chinese classic text, as an oracle. The process of consulting it in this way involves determining the hexagram by a method of random generation and then reading the text associated with that hexagram. The I Ching in itself and the program are localized in English, Italian, French, German and Spanish so that (almost) everyone can easily access the Oracle. The program, with an easy and streamlined interface will allow you to consult the Oracle for your important (or not important) decisions when you cannot make your mind. The result can be saved with a title and/or can sent via email to a friend or to yourself for later reading. The program will permit also to browse signs and lines as in the original book to allow meditation and lateral thinking. In this excerpt from the wonderful book of Douglas Adams "Mostly Harmless", simply substituting 'I Ching' to 'Astrology' and 'coins and signs' to 'stars and planets', you'll get a very good description of what I Ching is. "In I Ching the rules happen to be about coins and signs, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of the problem begin to emerge. The more the rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing their indentations. So you see, I Ching's nothing to do with coins and signs. It's just to do with people thinking about people". The fact that the book track his history to more than two thousand years ago and it is one of the most important books of ancient Chinese culture add to the meaning of it as "way to find what you think". The program simulates the casting of three coins for six times and then determines the corresponding hexagram. The "Sign" is the resulting hexagram, with the "changing lines", the lines that are changing from one state to the other. The text related to this hexagram will represent "the Present", the actual state of the thing. Once a hexagram is determined, each line has been determined as either changing (old) or unchanging (young). Any line in a hexagram that is old ("changing") adds additional meaning to that hexagram. Those are "the Mutations", the changes that are happening. Taoist philosophy holds that powerful yin will eventually turn to yang (and vice versa), so a new hexagram is formed by transposing each changing yin line with a yang line, and vice versa. Thus, further insight into the process of change is gained by reading the text of this new hexagram and studying it as the result of the current change. This second hexagram is "the Future" and represents the resulting state after the current change.

Version History New dark color theme. 8.4.1 10/22/2019 Support for new iOS version and dark mode. Standalone watchOS app 8.4.0 10/14/2019 Support for new devices (phones, iPad and watches) 8.3.7 01/17/2019 Fixes to watch app 8.3.6 05/18/2018 Small fixes to both watchOS and iOS versions 8.3.5 04/17/2018 Restored ordering by date in favorites 8.3.4 12/04/2017 Solved a bug with deleting bookmarks 8.3.3 11/07/2017 Saved signs now ordered by date. Tentative fix to layout problem some user sees. 8.3.2 07/05/2017 Bug fixes. 8.3.1 03/06/2017 Watch application. "Today Sign" changes at midnight local time and not UTC. 8.3 01/24/2017 Save now works also without iCloud and/or network connection. No more "free with ads", it's back to be a regular paid app (sorry, anyone). Shake to draw sign is now a preference: tap info to select it. Title for the save is selected at save (and can be changed saving again). 8.2 01/11/2017 Hopefully fixes original purchased version detection. From 8.1: Now free with ads. In App purchase to eliminate ads available. Who bought the app in a previous version will continue to use it without ads (and without paying). Please send a feedback if the machinery to skip ads don't work and you continue to see ads having purchased a previous version. 8.1.1 12/20/2016 *** WARNING: there is a bug in validation of previous version so ads are not disabled for people that already bought a previous version. I'll fix that as soon as possibile, you can skip upgrading to this version, in any case... sorry for the problem *** Now free with ads. In App purchase to eliminate ads available. Who bought the app in a previous version will continue to use it without ads (and without paying). Please send a feedback if the machinery to skip ads don't work and you continue to see ads having purchased a previous version. 8.1 12/18/2016 iMessage stickers! Share your sign of the day or a fresh extraction to your friend to talk about it. Revised UI. Saved signs and notes are synchronized via iCloud. 8.0 11/22/2016 Support for iOS10 Support for iPad multitasking Font change Bug fixes 7.1 09/28/2016 Today widget for "Today's I Ching", just add it. iPhone 6 and 6 plus support. Standard fonts and format (respecting the font size set by the user). iOS 8 only. 7.0 12/08/2014 iOS7 compatibility (iOS 7 required). 64-bit application. bug fixes. 6.0 11/18/2013 Changes in 5.0 User interface completely revised with full support for iPad retina and iPhone 5. Minimum iOS version required is now 5. 5.0.1 Small fixes. 5.0.2 Fixed a bug on notes editing sometimes not working. 5.1 Now uses Core Data for iCloud sync. 5.1 02/23/2013 Changes in 5.0 User interface completely revised with full support for iPad retina and iPhone 5. Minimum iOS version required is now 5. 5.0.1 Small fixes. 5.0.2 Fixed a bug on notes editing sometimes not working. 5.0.2 01/25/2013 Changes in 5.0 User interface completely revised with full support for iPad retina and iPhone 5. Minimum iOS version required is now 5. 5.0.1 Small fixes. 5.0.1 01/16/2013 User interface completely revised with full support for iPad retina and iPhone 5. Minimum iOS version required is now 5. 5.0 11/25/2012 Fixed a serious bug in sign browser. From 4.2: iCloud Support for sharing of favorites between lite, full and iPhone and iPad. Requires iOS 4.2+ Bug fixes. 4.2.1 08/06/2012 iCloud Support for sharing of favorites between lite, full and iPhone and iPad. Requires iOS 4.2+ Bug fixes. 4.2 07/18/2012 Changes in 4.1.1: Modifications to English oracle visualization and bug fixes in 4.1: Universal (iPhone/iPad) version. Slight UI changes. Bug fixes and a slight revision of the graphics. in 4.0: iPhone 4 Retina display support. iOS 4.x support. 4.1.1 05/11/2011 Universal (iPhone/iPad) version. Slight UI changes. Bug fixes and a slight revision of the graphics. From 4.0: iPhone 4 Retina display support. iOS 4.x support. 4.1 04/08/2011

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Previous Versions

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