The I Ching — "The Book of Changes" — is a 3,000-year-old Chinese oracle. You hold a question in mind, cast six lines, and the resulting pattern is a mirror of the moment. It does not predict the future. It reflects what is alive in the question right now.

Jung wrote the foreword to its most famous English translation and used it for forty years as a tool for psychological excavation — the same way he used dreams.

How it works. Write a real question — not yes-or-no, but something with weight ("What is happening between me and X?", "What am I refusing to see about this situation?"). Then cast. You'll get a hexagram of six lines with a name and a passage. Bring it to Jung and let him think through it with you.

A technique Jung developed for working with the unconscious in waking life. You choose a figure — from a dream, a fantasy, an image that haunts you — and you address it. You let it speak back. You do not script the voice. You wait, and write what comes.

A warning. The figures are real in the way the unconscious is real — autonomous, not literal. This work asks for a strong enough ego to hold the encounter without being possessed by it. If you are in crisis, this is not the time.

When you press Begin, you will be in Active Imagination mode for your next message. Describe the figure as fully as you can. Then ask it something. Jung will guide you — slowly, carefully — and will not invent the figure's voice for you.