The reading method
How the course teaches reading: structure before text, text before interpretation, and one written sentence per session. The method is the product.
The course has one opinion: understanding a text is a skill you build, and it builds faster in a fixed order. This page states the order.
Structure before text
The first four lessons never quote a line of the classical text. They teach yin and yang as a binary distinction, the four symbols as pairs, and the eight trigrams as a three-line vocabulary. The reason is that most of the received text's apparent obscurity disappears once you can see the figure it is talking about.
Text before interpretation
Each hexagram lesson gives you the classical Judgment and line texts, then the traditional commentary, then a reading. They are kept visually separate on the page, because the commentary is not the text and the reading is not the commentary. You are allowed to disagree with the reading — the course will still have done its job.
One sentence per session
At the end of a reading you write a single sentence in the journal: what you understood about the text. One sentence, not a paragraph. Over a year those sentences are the only record of your progress that actually means anything, and they are what Learning Insights counts.
What the Tutor is for
The Tutor answers from this site's course material and the classical texts, and every answer carries the sources it used and links back to the lesson. Its job is to send you back to the lesson, not to replace it. It will tell you what a line says; it will not tell you what will happen to you.
Oriental Wisdom Journal studies the Book of Changes as a text. These pages explain structure, vocabulary and reading method. Nothing here predicts the future or comments on what will happen to you.