Tarot and I Ching guides
Every guide here is built on something you can check: the original 1910 and 1882 texts, quoted exactly, or probabilities worked out step by step.
Tarot
Questions to Ask Tarot, and How to Ask Them WellAsk tarot open questions about things you can influence. Our own yes/no table shows why: 48 of the 78 cards lean yes upright and…How to Read Tarot Cards: A Beginner Method From Waite's 1910 InstructionsTo read tarot, ask one clear question, lay cards into positions with set meanings and read each card for what its position asks.Is Tarot Accurate? An Honest Answer With the NumbersTarot does not predict fixed events: every card has the same 1 in 78 chance of turning up, whatever you ask.Numbers in Tarot: What Ace to Ten Mean, Checked Against WaiteEach tarot number from Ace to Ten has a modern theme, but Waite's 1910 meanings only partly support it: his four Fives share…Pamela Colman Smith and the 1909 Smith-Waite Tarot DeckPamela Colman Smith (1878 to 1951) drew all 78 cards of the tarot deck published in London in 1909, giving every Minor Arcana…Reversed Tarot Cards: What They Mean and How to Read ThemA reversed tarot card is usually read as the upright meaning blocked, delayed or turned inward.Tarot and Astrology: The Zodiac Signs, Planets and Elements of Each CardIn the Golden Dawn system, the 22 Major Arcana map to 12 zodiac signs, 7 planets and 3 elements, and each suit carries an element.Tarot Card Combinations: Meanings, Patterns and the Real OddsTarot card combinations are rarer than they feel: a specific pair lands together in just 1 of 1,001 three-card readings, and two…Tarot Court Cards: How to Read the Page, Knight, Queen and KingThe 16 tarot court cards are a Page, Knight, Queen and King in each suit, 20.5% of the deck.
I Ching
How to consult the I Ching with coins or yarrow stalksTo consult the I Ching, ask one clear question and cast six lines with three coins or yarrow stalks.I Ching changing lines: what they mean and how to read themChanging lines are 6s and 9s that flip to make a second hexagram. Each line changes one time in four with coins or yarrow, so…The eight trigrams of the I ChingThe eight trigrams are every possible stack of three solid or broken lines, and any two of them make one of the 64 hexagrams.What is the I Ching? The Book of Changes explainedThe I Ching, or Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination manual: 64 hexagrams (8 x 8 trigrams, or 2 to the 6th line…
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