When I was a teenager, I'd learned the iChing using pennies I carried around in a native medicine bag, so, this should be a piece of cake, right?
Each of the iching symbols represents a specific energy. They are done in pairs, because the interactions between the two create an even more intricate depiction of the energy of the card. When you read them as tarot style cards, the images on the card SHOULD add to the "human" understanding of the energy; If the energy depicted feels different from the energy of the glyph, then it's not going to work very well. So far they are playing nice. Then energy flows very well if you can see/feel it in the iChing.
I didn't understand that until I did my first iChing Dead Moon reading; even though I'd used it all those years.
Ambitious, I have to relearn the iching meanings, differently. This could be a brilliant adventure. I blame Dan Pelletier.
There are eight trigrams only. But each trigram is coupled with another to create the iChing's 64 tiles.
Once you have a feeling for the iching, then the detail in the tarot card comes to life.
I'm enjoying this course. I look forward to being able to use this deck as my working deck.
Some iChing links: http://www.taopage.org/oracle.html http://www.ichingonline.net/about.php
If you learn both... it's more in keeping with the original creation. (IMNHO).
