Six Lines & Casting
Six-line casting builds one hexagram from yin and yang Yao — a classical I Ching path into reflective inquiry. Born Hour casts with coins or manual lines, shows the primary plate, moving lines, and changed hexagram, then offers a cultural reading — not a verdict.
What a cast records
The three-coin method yields 6, 7, 8, or 9 on each throw: old yin, young yang, young yin, old yang. Six throws from bottom to top complete the plate.
Values 6 and 9 are changing lines. After they invert, the changed hexagram appears. Read the primary image as structure; the changed image as tendency — still symbolism, not forecast.
How to read the plate
Name the palace and Self/Response seats, then each line’s Na Jia stem–branch, Six Relation, and Six Spirit from the cast day.
Moving lines are read against Self and a suggested focus theme from your question; the changed hexagram is tendency after movement — still image, not forecast.
An optional question frames reflection. One clear matter at a time keeps the reading from becoming wishful projection.
Beside Four Pillars and Ziwei
Four Pillars and Ziwei describe calendrical structure at birth; six lines answer a concrete matter in the moment. They can sit side by side without replacing each other.
Born Hour keeps casting inside cultural consultation: study the image, practice reflection, and avoid deterministic prediction.