Every ancient civilization sought to create a coherent and understandable system of knowledge that would explain the laws by which the world around us exists. In Ancient China, such a role was played by the I Ching - the Book of Changes, which had a significant influence on the development of philosophy, mathematics, the theory of painting and music and other areas of culture. Chronicles indicate that the first, fundamental layer of the I Ching text existed in its finished form and was quite widespread already in the 8th–7th centuries BC. e. Since its inception, the Book of Changes has been used to predict the future. In the process of fortune telling using the I Ching, we proceeded from the fact that each hexagram (combination of lines) symbolizes one or another life situation that unfolds in time, and each aphorism with the hexagram briefly characterizes a certain stage in the development of this situation. They wondered about the “fate of a young son” and “a service career”, about the success of a military campaign and about the marriage of a daughter, about a “strategic plan in a difficult battle” and about personal matters. In Pavel Bondarovsky’s book you will find a description of the structure of the “Book of Changes”, get acquainted with principles of analysis of hexagrams and their interpretations. That is, you will learn everything you need to use the I Ching to make difficult decisions and predict fate.