I Ching Reading (Legge text)
curl -X POST https://api.astroway.info/v1/iching/reading \ -H "X-Api-Key: aw_live_..." \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "question": "Should I take the new job?" }'const res = await fetch('https://api.astroway.info/v1/iching/reading', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'X-Api-Key': process.env.ASTROWAY_API_KEY, 'Content-Type': 'application/json', }, body: JSON.stringify({ "question": "Should I take the new job?" }),});const { ok, data, error } = await res.json();if (!ok) throw new Error(error.message);console.log(data);import os, requests
r = requests.post( 'https://api.astroway.info/v1/iching/reading', headers={'X-Api-Key': os.environ['ASTROWAY_API_KEY'], 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}, json={ 'question': "Should I take the new job?" },)result = r.json()if not result['ok']: raise RuntimeError(result['error']['message'])print(result['data'])<?phpuse GuzzleHttp\Client;
$client = new Client(['base_uri' => 'https://api.astroway.info/v1/']);$r = $client->post('iching/reading', [ 'headers' => ['X-Api-Key' => getenv('ASTROWAY_API_KEY')], 'json' => [ 'question' => 'Should I take the new job?', ],]);$result = json_decode($r->getBody(), true);if (!$result['ok']) throw new \RuntimeException($result['error']['message']);print_r($result['data']);A full reading in Legge’s public-domain translation: the primary hexagram’s judgment, the text of each changing line, the resulting hexagram, and focus, the texts to read for that count of changing lines by Zhu Xi’s rule (none: the judgment; one: that line; two: both, the upper leads; three: both judgments; four: the two unchanged lines of the resulting hexagram; five: its one unchanged line; six: the use of nines or sixes on Qian and Kun, otherwise the resulting judgment). Send your own six coin totals in lines (6, 7, 8, 9 bottom to top), or a seed (the same cast as /iching/throw-coins), or a question that seeds it.
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Section titled “Query Parameters ”Comma-separated dotted paths, relative to data, to keep in the response. A path is applied to every element of an array, so planets.name means the name of each planet. Paths that match nothing come back in _fields_unmatched; a list where nothing matches at all is a 400, because an empty object would be a confident wrong answer.
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planets.name,planets.longitudeRound every non-integer number in the response to this many decimal places. Integers are left alone, because an id is not a measurement. Ecliptic longitudes ship with fourteen decimals by default; 2 is about a tenth of an arcminute.
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Section titled “Header Parameters ”Unique per logical operation, kept across retries. For 24 hours from the first request, a repeat with the same key, method, path, body and query string returns the stored response with Idempotent-Replayed: true and costs 0 credits. The same key with a different body or query string is a 409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED; a repeat while the first is still running is a 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS. Only 2xx responses are kept. See /idempotency/.
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{ "question": "Should I take the new job?"}Responses
Section titled “ Responses ”Successful calculation
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{ "ok": true, "data": { "question": "Should I take the new job?", "seed": 2134755292, "method": "3-coin throw (Yang=3, Yin=2)", "lines": [ { "position": 1, "value": 8, "yang": false, "changing": false } ], "primary": { "number": 47, "name": "Oppression", "pinyin": "Kun", "legge": "Khwăn", "chinese": "䷮", "lines": [ 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0 ], "lowerTrigram": 3, "upperTrigram": 7, "judgment": "In (the condition denoted by) Khwăn there may (yet be) progress and success. For the firm and correct, the (really) great man, there will be good fortune. He will fall into no error. If he make speeches, his words cannot be made good." }, "changingLines": [ { "position": 3, "text": "The third line, divided, shows its subject straitened before a (frowning) rock. He lays hold of thorns. He enters his palace, and does not see his wife. There will be evil." } ], "resulting": { "number": 28, "name": "Preponderance of the Great", "pinyin": "Da Guo", "legge": "Tâ Kwo", "chinese": "䷛", "lines": [ 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0 ], "lowerTrigram": 5, "upperTrigram": 7, "judgment": "Tâ Kwo suggests to us a beam that is weak. There will be advantage in moving (under its conditions) in any direction whatever; there will be success." }, "focus": { "rule": "One changing line: read that line.", "texts": [ { "hexagram": 47, "part": "line 3", "text": "The third line, divided, shows its subject straitened before a (frowning) rock. He lays hold of thorns. He enters his palace, and does not see his wife. There will be evil." } ] }, "source": "James Legge, The Yi King, Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI (1882; 2nd ed. 1899), public domain: the Text (judgments and line statements)", "readingRuleSource": "Zhu Xi, Yixue Qimeng (1186), ch. 4, on reading changing lines" }}Validation error
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{ "ok": false, "error": { "code": "INVALID_INPUT", "message": "Validation failed: date: Date must be YYYY-MM-DD", "details": [ { "path": "date", "message": "Date must be YYYY-MM-DD" } ] }}Missing or invalid API key
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{ "ok": false, "error": { "code": "INVALID_API_KEY", "message": "Invalid API key" }}