Materials Needed:

50 Yarrow stalks, or sticks (about 8 inches in length).
Pen and Paper

Procedure:

1. Find a quiet place, and take a few moments to relax and meditate on your query. Concentrate on your question or the situation for which you seek guidance.
2. Taking the 50 sticks in your hand, remove one stick and set it aside.
3. With the 49 sticks remaining, divide them into two (right side and left side) and place them down side by side.
4. Take the bunch on the right side (with your right hand), and remove one stick, placing it on your left hand, between your ring (fourth) and little finger (pinkie).
5. From the left-side bunch, remove groups of four sticks at a time, until four or less sticks are left. Set this aside.
6. Taking back the right-side bunch, remove four sticks at a time again, until four of less remain. Set this aside.
7. Place the remainder from the left-hand bunch between the ring finger and the middle finger and the remainder from the right-hand bunch between the middle finger and index finger of the left hand.
8. Take all the sticks from your left hand and set them aside.
9. Gather the remaining sticks and divide them into two bunches.

Repeat steps 4-7. Do this a third time, dividing the remaining sticks into two bunches and repeating steps 4 & 7.

You should now have three groups of sticks. Remove one stick from the first group. Each group should now have a sum of 4 or 8.

4 sticks = 3
8 sticks = 2

Assign the corresponding value to each group, and total the three values. It should equal six, seven, eight or nine.
Taking a pen and paper, you are now ready to begin drawing the first line of the hexagram. Starting from the bottom, use this guide as reference:

6 old (changing) Yin line --x--
7 young Yang line -----
8 young Yin line -- --
9 old (changing) Yang line --o--

Now repeat the entire process five more time, to come up with the remaining lines of the hexagram. Work your way from the bottom to the top, stacking each line on top of the last.

With the drawing you have made of the hexagram, look up the meaning in the Hexagram Table.

This creates the first hexagram, which focuses on the present circumstances. If you have old or changing lines, you may create a second hexagram, which contains the possible future outcome of the situation, after the change has occurred.

To do this, redraw the hexagram converting the changing or old lines to the opposite. For example, an old or changing Yin line (--x--) becomes a Yang line (----) , and an old Yang line (--o--) converts to a Yin line(-- --).

Look up the new hexagram by clicking here: I Ching Table, Wilhelm translation.