I Ching Tarot

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I first saw this wonderful deck on a tarot site and soon after purchased the deck. The cards are flexible and thinly coated. The artwork is just like the box says... classical chinese watercolor paintings. Simple, direct, and to the point. I fell in love with them immediately. The little white booklet that comes with it is quite hefty ( 114 pages) and packed with information. Straight forward, simple instructions for using the deck right away. It takes an ancient oracle and updates it for modern people. I highly recommend this deck to anyone.

These cards are as beautiful as they are mystical. As a collector of various fortunetelling cards, I just had to have this I Ching deck after seeing the traditional artwork. The cards came with a detailed guide book that show how to do a reading and even includes an example reading to help with understanding. The card interpretations are detailed and yet still easy to understand. I am still getting used to the cards and have only done two readings so far, but they are very informative and insightful. While they aren't as detailed as my Mahjongg fortunetelling deck, they are definitely better than typical oracle cards. I am very pleased with this product and cannot wait to do readings for family and friends. The images are just breathtaking and I just know my querents will love them.

I Just ordered mine and I am really excited with this deck. This is a deck that resonates a lot with me because I have the same acceptance and understanding of the tarot. It might be true that others see it as a mystical or esoteric tool but for me, the magic lies on how I interpret it. On how it will make me have some realizations on the scenarios that I am facing. On how I can dig deep and find the answer that I am looking for within me.

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The I Ching, or Book of Changes, one of the most revered oracles in human civilization. It has lighted the path of Its believers for more than three thousand years and it is considered as both, a purely source of wisdom and a fortune telling or oracle book. As a sapient work, it is a source of wisdom for one's life ; as an oracle, the perfect key to find harmony: a foolproof compass for the proper guidance. Ying and Yang permutations are represented in the I Ching by the interaction of detached lines in Yin(- -) and joined lines in Yang (---). They are used to form eight figures of three lines each called trigrams.

These lines interchange to build up 64 figures of six lines each called hexagrams. The complete version of the I-Ching has a different interpretation of each hexagram and it also gives a different reading to each individual line, according to the personal situation of the consulting and advised person. An important thing to be noticed for the interpretation

Think about your question and consult the oracle. write down notes about the advice you'll find in the chart of results. You should make out the answer the best way you understand it and take brief notes of your ideas. Be as accurate as you can with your questions; the vaguest the question, the most indefinite the answer. try to be specific. Once the situation has been solved, get back to your notes. Then you could give a second thought to your interpretation. If you don't find any valuable significance in a given answer at the moment, remember that you will be limited by your own expectations. It is possible later on, that you realize that an unexpected result makes perfect sense. if(FlashDetect.majorAtLeast(9) == false) document.forms.form2.action = "i-ching-j.php";

The I Ching Dead Moon has 64 cards, illustrated by artist Luis Royo. The cards are darkly atmospheric, with the I Ching hexagrams inset at the base of each card. There are also 15 instruction cards included with the deck, explaining the I Ching and the hexagram meanings.

I love the I Ching Dead Moon Oracle deck by Luis Royo... As a collector's item, that is. Royo's artwork in Dead Moon is what I'll describe as East Asian post-punk gothic rock that borrows imagery from Japanese samurai culture and imperial China, altogether with lots of blood, wild black hair, and intricate tattoos. And the consistent depiction of inclement weather in the backdrop. In other words, awesome. Sure, there's some hypersexualization and exotification of Asian women in there, but let's just agree that post-colonial social politics will be beyond the scope of this deck review. Without question Royo's Dead Moon deck is one of the best on the market when it comes to art. It is an oracle deck, however, and not tarot in the traditional sense. As it is based on the I Ching, the oracle deck has 64 rather than 78 cards, each corresponding with one of the hexagrams from the I Ching. However, the Dead Moon I Ching deck is haphazard with the illustrations. They don't necessarily correspond with the hexagram it's supposed to represent. Other I Ching oracle decks, such as the I Ching Tarot by Kwan Lau, depict images that the illustrator believes represents the meaning of the hexagram. If that was Royo's intention, then it may have failed, at least for me. For example, Hexagram 2, Kun, or Earth, represents stability, support, strength, fertility, nourishment, etc. It's a hexagram that reminds us to be calm and receptive to the natural world around us. In other I Ching oracle decks I've come across, Hexagram 2 is usually represented by a tree or a Mother Earth type figure. In the Dead Moon deck, we've got a half-naked forlorn looking woman who is kneeling, looking down. There may or may not be a waterfall in the background. It's an incredible work of art, no question, but perhaps not the most comprehensive image to symbolize Hexagram 2. Not to mention there are no words on any of the cards to suggest what the hexagram you're looking at is, other than the number. So either you know it or you don't. No hints, anywhere. As a result I found it difficult to use. When the I Ching is used on its own for divination, you consult the book after yarrow stalks or tossing coins or what have you. When the tarot is used on its own for divination, you interpret the meaning through the imagery and symbolism on the cards. A divination fusion of I Ching and tarot, one would think, would mean the ability to interpret the meaning of the hexagram via the imagery and symbolism on the oracle card. For Dead Moon, not so much. For instance, Hexagram 9, Shiao Chu, is about restraint and propriety. I just don't get that from the card's imagery. In fact, the woman on that card looks sexually inviting. Hexagram 11, Tai, is about reaping the fruits of your labor; success. Stunning artwork in Hexagram 11, but it makes no sense as applied to the meaning of Hexagram 11. Hexagram 22, Bin, is about grace and beauty. The image of the woman depicted therein kind of works for me but also kind of doesn't. If I didn't know the meaning of Hexagram 22 prior to encountering that card, I would not have guessed "grace and beauty." Maybe melancholy. The deck did not work for me when I applied traditional I Ching divination techniques and it did not work when I applied it to my go-to tarot and cartomancy spreads. I know I said that that post-colonial social politics is beyond the scope of this review, but the scantily clad, sexually objectified Asian women were offensive to me. Arent we beyond that kind of antifeminist and racist behavior yet? Whats more, to use Dead Moon as an oracle deck, the practitioner would need to be quite advanced and highly knowledgeable already of the 64 hexagrams. With no keywords, no card titles, illustrations that for the most part have little to do with the hexagrams, none of the symbolism of the original I Ching, and a barebones booklet that offers a shallow interpretation of Tao, if you dont know the I Ching going into the Dead Moon, you wont learn much about it after using the deck. Truth be told, I found the artsy-gothic-lots-of-sexy-Asian-women-and-hot-warriors deck of cards unappealing as a representation of the Tao, which I deeply regard. Dead Moon is not a tarot deck in the traditional sense and will be a leap for tarot readers to use. So from a marketing standpoint, who exactly is Royo targeting? Collectors. The I Ching Dead Moon is going to be a favorite in any tarot/oracle deck collection. The art is beautiful and the dark ambiance of the deck is altogether thrilling. However, for me, that is where the Dead Moons purpose ends. It does not work for divination under either of the two esoteric paradigms it claims to be inspired by, tarot or I Ching. It is pretty to look at and that is about it.

Bǔsh is a reference to a particular Chinese tradition of going before deities and drawing out divinatory sticks that correspond with prophetic verses believed to be an oracle from the Divine. Over time, the term has been used to encompass the concept of divination, which is about connecting to the Divine, to an energy that is beyond your physical self, beyond your consciousness or personal intelligence. The I Ching, for instance, is considered a form of divination, not fortune telling, because in I Ching divination, you are reaching beyond yourself, or at the very least, reaching beyond your conscious mind for answers.

In divination, an outcome remains mutable because it presumes that the Divine has granted the seeker free will. Thus, divination is the mere act of asking for counsel on the exercise of that free will. The seeker is stating his or her desired outcome and then seeking the powers beyond for guidance to enable that seeker to achieve the desired outcome.

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