Yi-ching Vs Tarot, Which one? Options

Have joined an eseoteric (sp?) study group who encourage students to throw out their Tarot cards and start to understand the Yi-Ching, talking about Oracles over divinators, fortune tellers and what not and it surprised me.

I mean if you were to go to someone who uses the tarot to give you a reading and then go to someone who uses the Yi-Ching which would give the best results? Can see that the Yi-Ching has a more established background prehaps being 6000 years old but what do you think...?

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Dk

I agree with you on the tarot, and particularly the Thoth, as a medium for advice and getting different perspectives on any given set of circumstances. Still, I think it is telling that Crowley himself was a big advocate of the I Ching. I'm not keen on his own "translation" (another example of the more objectionable "poetry" that litters his works), but I tend to agree with his idea that the I Ching often cuts through a lot of the ambiguity that one can get in a tarot reading. I think it is in Magick in Theory and Practice that he discusses the different divination systems and I seem to recall that he himself used the I Ching almost daily for purely practical advice as opposed to the broader scope of the tarot.

I have found it can be excellent for that kind of enquiry. I recall an instance when I first started using it and was supposed to be going out to an event. There were several political and personal reasons why attendance was essentially a good idea, but I had gotten in from a nightmare day at work and had neither the energy nor the inclination to haul my ass down there. I decided to see what the I Ching had to say on the matter:

"It is good to have places to go. It is good to have people to see."

That is the kind of no BS divinatory result I like!

Incidentally...a friend of mine spent yesterday at a trade show and apparently they are launcing a new version of the Thoth tarot that is even bigger than the current large one! I know I am going to end up getting one.