I ching vs tarot

Tin Goddess

I recently started to teach myself the tarot ... but when i told an old freind this he told me that i ching is far more accurate... are they just different tools or do they work from different principles?

6th

Just different tools as far as I am concerned. tbh its all about the reader.

Stick with Tarot for now and see if it suits you, if after that you want to try new things go ahead. Personally I am looking at Ruins and Tarot at the moment and it will be a case of seeing what sits well with me.

Different golfers (and other sports people) use different brands of equipment because they find it suits them - the grip, the weight etc we're all different so no one tool is generally better than another.

Best of luck finding what suits you.

6th

greenkittie

On the subject of tarot... anyone know where to get nice decks in Dublin. Also what style of deck do you prefer?

Edit: sorry hadn't read down the forum and seen someone had already posted a thread asking this!

ladybirdirl

Hiya,

Totally agree with 6th(and it's not often that happens) Just different tools. Various readers will tell you one is more accurate. That's probably because they are better at one over the other.

I think tarot makes a little more sense personally but go with what you're drawn to.

If you don't have a tarot deck the rider waite ones are usually easiest to start with

Good luck with it

Ladybird

ladybirdirl

greenkittie wrote:

On the subject of tarot... anyone know where to get nice decks in Dublin. Also what style of deck do you prefer?

Edit: sorry hadn't read down the forum and seen someone had already posted a thread asking this!

you can get them in Eason's at times,but also a few places like House of Astrology etc They sell you quickly at this time of year as lots of people start classes. I reckon you can't go wrong with the Rider Waite standard. I've only seen one reader who used a different one. Atl east with RW you can have a good idea of what's going on if you go for a reading with someone else and they use them. Personally I use RW because the drawings make sense to me

Ladybird

Tin Goddess

I have a raider waite deck and am really enjoying learning to work with it. I am finding it really interesting to try a reading just looking at the pictures and trying to figure it out

hairyheretic

I think Yellowbrick Road has (or at least had) a few sets. I never really felt any resonance with the tarot, but I read the eldar futhark runes myself.

Forester

Tin Goddess wrote:

I recently started to teach myself the tarot ... but when i told an old freind this he told me that i ching is far more accurate... are they just different tools or do they work from different principles?

Depends what you are looking for?

Tarot cards originated in Italy in the 15th century. Renaissance Italians played a card game called tarrochini, which involved a deck of cards that looks a lot like what most people would call a “tarot deck” today. The cards were used for a vaguely bridge-like game by the same name, as well as (more discreetly) being used for fortune-telling.

Everyone is pretty sure that these cards didn't just spring into existence fully formed and overnight, but no one has any credible evidence to suggest its precise previous lineage if any.

Certain brands of fuzzy, white-light New Agers like to claim that tarot dates back to ancient Egypt, the Knights Templar, Atlantis, ancient alien charioteers, etc., etc. These claims have various levels of credibility, depending on largely on what you're willing to believe or how credulous the individual is. In recent years, the current obsession created by American pop culture being obsessed with all things "New Age" (which generally means really old things that have been completely reinvented by flaky poseurs) has led to a proliferation of tarot and fortune-telling decks, found as easily at Easons etc

The I Ching is a different kettle of fish altogether being less of a fortune-telling device than a sort of metaphysical insight builder, readings tend to offer advice and guidelines for right living rather than “you will meet a nice blond”

The I ching once correctly understood may be used as a tool to perform powerful self-insights and transformations of the psyche I know this sounds very mystical, illogical, and non-scientific?.... Yes, indeed. That's the whole point. It's a very NON-WESTERN approach to self understanding and change. I would like to point out a few interesting facts about the I Ching. On his deathbed, Confucius, probably one of the greatest minds in human history, expressed his wish that he could live another 50 years so that he could devote that time to studying the I Ching. Inspired by the mathematical structure of the I Ching, the German philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz invented the binary system, which was a major contribution to computer science, and eventually resulted in the fact that you are at this very moment reading this sentence. Carl Jung also was fascinating by the I Ching, and proposed "synchronicity" as the acausal mechanism by which one's mind, the coins or sticks, and the hexagrams become interconnected.

Enjoy