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...?

HTP
Dk

One is more analytic leading to intuitive abstraction. The other is more intuitive, encouraging refinement and an analytic distillation.

Yep.

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.

Very true.

The tarot is not one for those who tend to think alot, either with or almost with enough *think* as a Gemini would. Me being one, the tarot, no offense, sent me into an overinclusive schizoid thinking pattern, since I was not given a good direction of where to go. Example:

Tarot says "fool" card concerning things ahead.
"Wait, Concerning what?"
*insert card here*
"But how?"
*insert card here*
"And that says what?!"

Also, I got a bad experience because alot of my pagan friends ended up leading me on with different things with the whole, "Well, what do you think?" routine, back when I was rising Icarus style. That is a HUGE no-no. Ya don't do that to a budding mystic! Wrong! If ya know the answer, tell them, because they are impressionable at that moment in their spiritual development!

For this reason, I hated the tarot. With a passion. Even if the tarot was right, the fact that I had trusted people that used it to guide me, misguide me, said enough: The tarot can tell you whatever, but it can't help you look inside someone to see what makes them tick. I said it in this sense because If they knew, they indeed could have handleed it differently. Now, I'm not shedding blame, but solving a solution goes both ways. If a wheel cant move, tend to it (dont be a smartZss and say replace it, abstractly is irreplaceable in this instance!). If only I had been given guidance in a form I could understand, I would not be in even HALF the mess I am in now!!

I hate the tarot. BURNING hate of it.

Don't bother responding to this, I just wanted to put my words-worth in. It's more or less just to ruminate on. Food for thought and all that. Take care.

I hate the tarot. BURNING hate of it.

.lol. Maybe it dosen't like you.

The Yi-Cing employs the same visual effect the Tarot does each heagram has its subconsious meaning, just because it isn't as colourful dosen't mean it isn't it isn't as symbolic. Would be cool to apply the Yi-Ching to the Tree of life although in that case I'd prefer the Tarot.