Why Throw Coins?
A short introduction to why a Yi Jing reading begins with the simple act of throwing coins.
I Ching · Taoist wisdom · Human questions
Another Valley — ancient wisdom for human questions
Another Valley is for the questions you ask at 2am—when the old answers no longer fit, but the next way forward has not yet appeared.
“Where the mountains end and the river disappears, you doubt there is a road—then willows darken, blossoms brighten, and another village appears.”
Start here
Three short ways into the Yi Jing.
Press play when you are ready. Each film stays here in the valley, and none begins on its own.
Why the Yi Jing Gives a Different Answer Every Time
The moment changes, the question changes, and you are never quite the same person twice when you ask.
Fu Xi and the Dragon-Horse
The first story in the history series: how an ancient pattern was said to rise from the Yellow River.
From the valley
Questions that follow us home
Each story begins with a modern ache and opens a 3,000-year-old way of seeing it.
Why Does Hitting Rock Bottom Feel Strangely Familiar?
When the bottom feels less like a place and more like a pattern.
Why Do Bad Things Happen When You Did Nothing Wrong?
What an old story can say about blame, fate, and the missing cow.
Why Can't You Stop Overthinking?
A quieter way to understand the mind that will not put the question down.
Three short series
The old book, opened three ways.
Follow the story behind the I Ching, understand why it works as it does, or return for a reading of the season ahead.
How the I Ching reached us
Dragon-horses, river turtles, a king in a dark cell, and a book that survived an emperor’s fire. Short stories where history and legend meet.
Open the History playlist ↗Why does the oracle work this way?
Why throw coins? Why can the answer change? Why are there moving lines? Small explainers for the strange mechanics behind the Book of Changes.
Open the Why playlist ↗A reading for the road ahead
A weekly reading for the next few steps and a monthly hexagram for the wider season—what to work with, what to watch, and where not to force.
Open the Forecast playlist ↗Not fortune-telling
A map for the places every human life passes through.
Love. Loss. Waiting. Letting go. Beginning again. The I Ching does not remove uncertainty; it gives shape to the moment you are standing in. Another Valley brings that old intelligence into ordinary life—with warmth, clarity, and room for your own answer.
Choose your way in
Meet the valley where you are.
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Ask
Cast an I Ching love reading
Bring one honest question. Choose the situation closest to your heart, cast the coins, and sit with what the hexagram opens.
Begin a reading 02Watch
Questions for the late hour
Short films and deeper episodes about the patterns we repeat, the people we cannot release, and the moments that ask us to change.
Visit the channel 03Read
I Ching for Love
A practical companion to what all 64 hexagrams can say about attraction, uncertainty, conflict, distance, commitment, and return.
Find the bookBring one honest question
Let the coins answer.
Choose the situation closest to your heart and receive your hexagram.
Cast a free love reading