Liu Yao Software for Desktop
Cast hexagrams with six coin tosses, track moving lines, and continue with focused question interpretation and Newton AI in Mystilink.
Core capabilities for Liu Yao divination
Six Coin Tosses
Cast Liu Yao hexagrams through structured six-line coin throws in one continuous workspace.
Moving Lines
Track changing lines and their transformed hexagram as structured divination data.
Hexagram Interpretation
Inspect primary and relating hexagrams with context tied to your focused question.
Desktop Workflow
Keep casts, hexagrams, and AI tools together for serious ongoing Liu Yao practice.
See your Liu Yao reading in one workspace
Your question, coin cast, moving lines, hexagram panel, and Newton stay connected on the desktop.
Cast a hexagram in the browser
Three coins, six tosses. This panel only does the arithmetic — original hexagram, moving lines, changed hexagram — from the same core the desktop app runs, locally. The reading is yours.
Toss from the bottom up. Six tosses make the hexagram.
Solid = yang, broken = yin. A circle marks a line that changes.
Demo only: it shows the casting and hexagram arithmetic. It makes no judgement of fortune and is not a prediction about any real question.
How Mystilink works for Liu Yao
Set your question
Frame the divination with a focused question before casting begins.
Cast the hexagram
Perform six coin tosses to generate the primary hexagram lines.
Review moving lines
Inspect changing lines and the resulting relating hexagram in context.
AI exploration
Continue with Newton for interpretation grounded in the hexagram you cast.
Explore Liu Yao with Mystilink
Coin Casting
Generate hexagram lines through structured six-coin Liu Yao casting.
Primary hexagram software data
Work with the main hexagram as structured I Ching divination software data you can revisit.
Moving Lines
Track which lines change and how they affect interpretation.
Relating Hexagram
See the transformed hexagram connected to the primary cast.
Focused Questions
Anchor each session to a clear question — open-ended browsing.
Desktop Liu Yao workflow
Keep casts, hexagrams, and AI tools together for serious ongoing Liu Yao practice on desktop.
Why use a desktop workspace?
Mystilink is built for ongoing Liu Yao practice—structured hexagram exploration — disposable calculator output.
| Online calculator | Mystilink Desktop |
|---|---|
| Quick one-time cast | Continuous divination workspace |
| Simple hexagram output | Structured hexagram exploration |
| Separate tools | One integrated environment |
| Generic AI chat | Hexagram-aware AI workflow |
Six parts of a casting, in reading order
A hexagram is not an image you pick. It is six tosses, recorded in order, with a few labelled relations laid over them.
The lineSix lines, each either broken or whole, built from the bottom up.
A line is the smallest unit and the only thing you actually record. Everything else — trigrams, the hexagram, the changed hexagram — is derived from these six entries, which is why a mis-recorded line is unrecoverable.
The line →TrigramsLines read in pairs of three: lower trigram, then upper.
Eight trigrams name the three-line blocks before they combine into sixty-four. Naming the trigrams is not decoration: the same line means something different depending on whether it sits in the lower or the upper block.
Trigrams →Six relationsEach line is labelled relative to the hexagram's own element.
Parent, child, spouse, officer, sibling, wealth — assigned by element, not by meaning. The relations are a coordinate system, and a line without one is a line you cannot yet read.
Six relations →Moving linesThe old yin and old yang are the lines that change into their opposite.
A moving line produces the changed hexagram, so the same six entries describe two figures. Reading the second figure as a separate answer, rather than as where the first one is heading, is the most common way a Liu Yao reading loses its subject.
Moving lines →Subject and objectOne line stands for the asker, another for the matter asked about.
Shi and Ying are positions, not people. Almost every practical question becomes readable only once you fix which is which, and the answer is usually a statement about the relation between those two lines rather than about either alone.
Subject and object →Original, changed, mutualThree named figures derived from the same six entries.
Ben gua is what was cast, zhi gua is what it moves into, and the mutual hexagram is read from the inner lines. They answer different questions — using them interchangeably is what makes a Liu Yao answer feel arbitrary.
Original, changed, mutual →
What people say
From people who cast with coins on a desk, and noticed the difference between that and typing a question into a box.
Real coin throws for Liu Yao. Typing "cast a hexagram" into a chatbot was always a bit silly.
Tarot draws in-app. Then the agent reads them. Less essay-generator energy.
Bought once. Use my own key. Profiles stay on this laptop. That was the deal.
FAQ is blunt. Good. Pay once, pay for tokens when you actually burn them.
Keep reading
Three articles on keeping the practice honest: Liu Yao is not the whole I Ching, how text and commentary differ, and recording a consultation.
MethodLiu Yao and the I Ching: distinguish the reading practice
A six-line figure does not identify the whole method. Liu Yao and text-centred consultation organise the same formal material quite differently.
ReadingThe I Ching as text, commentary, and consultation
A short text sits beside centuries of explanation. Separating text, commentary, translation and consultation makes the layered pages readable.
NotesHow to record an I Ching consultation
Record the question, the procedure, the textual layer and your own application — with a worked example that keeps casting separate from text study.
A cast you actually made, and an agent that can read it back
The toss should stay physical. What the desktop agent adds is a record of it — six lines, their relations, and the question you actually asked.
What this page already does
Six tosses, recorded
Enter each toss as it happens and the hexagram is built honestly, line by line, from the bottom up.
Derived figures shown, not hidden
Original, changed and mutual hexagrams are displayed as separate results of the same cast.
Nothing cast for you
There is no random generator on this page. If you did not toss, there is no hexagram.
Then continue in the Mystilink Agent
Ask line by line
Query a moving line and its relation on their own, instead of receiving one paragraph about the whole hexagram.
Keep the question attached
The recording carries the question as you wrote it, so a later reading can check whether it was answered or replaced.
Compare casts over time
Line up several consultations on the same matter and look at what changed — rather than re-reading the first answer.
This page does not generate AI commentary and does not cast for you. The hexagram comes from your tosses; the explanations come from a knowledge base maintained by Mystilink's practitioners, and the model is not allowed to improvise over it.
Go beyond the hexagram with Newton
Once your Liu Yao hexagram is cast, continue exploring through Newton LLM directly inside Mystilink.
- Ask questions grounded in the hexagram
- Explore moving lines and transformations
- Compare casts across sessions
- Keep interpretation continuous
Built for
- I Ching and Liu Yao learners studying hexagram divination in depth
- Practitioners who need a durable desktop workspace
- Users moving from online hexagram calculators to desktop software
- Readers who prefer focused questions over random daily casts
- Users who want traditional Liu Yao combined with AI
FAQ
What is Liu Yao divination software?
Liu Yao divination software records a six-line reading as structured data; Mystilink keeps that hexagram in a persistent desktop workspace instead of a scratch pad.
It stores the six coin tosses, marks which lines are moving, and derives the original and changed hexagrams, so the reading stays attached to the exact casting that produced it.
- Structured record: each of the six lines is stored as data.
- Moving lines tracked: moving lines and the changed hexagram are derived, not guessed.
- Persistent workspace: profiles and hexagrams are saved for later sessions.
Does Mystilink run on Mac?
Yes. Mystilink is a desktop application with builds for macOS and Windows, so a Mac is a fully supported platform.
Charting, the analysis panels and the AI layer all run inside the same installed client, which means your profiles and charts stay on your own machine.
- Native app: macOS and Windows ship as one product with the same features.
- Local work: profiles and charts are stored on your machine.
- No cut-down mode: nothing is Mac-only or Windows-only.
Does Mystilink support Windows?
Yes. Windows is a fully supported platform, shipped as the same product as the macOS build.
Download the Windows installer, sign in or register, activate the desktop app, and the same workspace, charting tools and AI layers are available.
- One product: macOS and Windows share the same feature set.
- Activation: sign in or register, then activate the client.
- Local storage: profiles and charts remain on your machine.
Can Liu Yao reading be combined with an AI layer?
Yes. Once the hexagram is structured you can continue with an AI Liu Yao reading inside the same app, without re-entering the tosses in a separate chat tool.
The AI layer reasons over the recorded lines and the changed hexagram, so its interpretation stays anchored to the casting on screen.
- Recorded casting: the AI reads the hexagram the tooling produced.
- No retyping: nothing is copied into an external chatbot.
- Traceable: each statement maps back to a line or the changed hexagram.
Record the casting first, then let the AI layer interpret it.
Does Mystilink support related systems?
Yes. The same desktop product also handles Tarot, Western natal astrology, BaZi and Zi Wei Dou Shu workflows, so a hexagram and a chart live in one installation.
Because profiles are shared, the same birth data or reading session can be compared across systems without re-entering anything.
- Tarot: interactive spreads that record each orientation.
- Western natal astrology: placements in signs and houses, plus aspects.
- Shared profiles: enter data once in a single desktop app.
Is Mystilink a web app or a desktop app?
Mystilink is a desktop application; the website is not the product.
The site exists for download, account, pricing and product documentation, while all charting and reasoning run in the installed client on your own machine.
- Desktop app: analysis runs in the installed client.
- Website role: download, account, pricing and docs only.
- Local by design: your data is not processed in a browser tab.
How do I get started?
Download Mystilink, sign in or register, activate the desktop app, then open the Liu Yao casting workflow and load a profile.
Setup is deliberately the same for every system: install once, generate the chart first, and only then ask the AI layer, so answers always rest on computed structure.
- Install: download the build for macOS or Windows.
- Activate: sign in or register with your account.
- Open the workflow: choose Liu Yao casting, then load or create a profile.
Generate the first chart before asking questions; everything else builds on it.
Start exploring Liu Yao with Mystilink
Bring hexagram casting, structured interpretation, and AI into one desktop workspace.