Two Skies
English

Ask the tarot, and the I Ching beside it

Three cards from the 1909 deck. Then the same question goes to the I Ching, and you see where they disagree.

Free, with no sign-up. One question at a time, and the old books say not to ask the same one twice. We don't read questions about health, death, pregnancy, the law or money.

The method

The cards are read by the book A. E. Waite wrote for this deck. The I Ching takes six tosses of three coins, and the two answers sit side by side.

Where this comes from

The hexagram text is from the Zhou Yi (周易). The chart follows Zeng Shan Bu Yi (增刪卜易), a Qing manual of the method, and Huo Zhu Lin (火珠林), and our code reproduces the table of all 64 hexagrams printed in Zeng Shan Bu Yi. The English for those is ours. The cards are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. What they mean comes from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, in his words, leaving out what he says about money, law, illness and disaster. A quotation shows what an old book says and proves nothing: this is for entertainment and self-reflection.