The I-Ching, or "Book of Changes," is an ancient Chinese oracle book that deals with philosophy and divination. rigrams are a series of three lines (either solid or broken lines) while hexagrams are comprised of six corners.Dating to the Chou dynasty (1100 BC), the I-Ching was heavily influenced by Confucius, who used his considerable scholarly abilities to help form the Ten Wings -- the commentary that offers explanations of the hexagrams.

The I'Ching regards every situation we meet in life as fields of energy, in which two basic forces, the masculine ( Yang ) force and the feminine ( Yin ) force, are at work. The Chinese zodiac is an animal zodiac of twelve animal signs, and it is said that the ruling animal of the year a person is born, hides in the heart of that person.