Liu Yao needs only three coins: hold them, shake, throw, and note the faces. Repeat six times and stack the lines from the bottom up.
One rule matters more than the rest: ask about exactly one thing per casting.
In Liu Yao the Self line marks the position of the person asking and the Response line the side opposite them, and how the two relate is the core of reading any matter that involves people. Bring in the Six Relatives and the five phases' generation and control and a full picture forms; settle for a single word of good or bad luck, and the whole chart is reduced to one character's worth of conclusion.
Casting a Liu Yao hexagram is six tosses of three coins, one line recorded each time, from the bottom upwards. This article walks through the usual steps, explains what dressing the hexagram with Na Jia adds, and why the question matters far more than the tossing.
A three-card spread answers one question. This note covers laying, turning and reading the cards together.
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