I Ching * Tarot Minor Arcana ~ Hybrid Readings for feedback!

[OctavaSpera]

Attention: I'm around, just kinda busy, will do this in my downtime, please wait until the pending list shrinks a bit before you post. CHANG reserves the right to refuse readings to anyone.

pending list -

0) rwcarter = reading estimate oct. 13 morning US time
1) mme haleyw from the UK, (asked oct 6, reading estimate oct 15 noon)
2) Mantra Tarot. (asked Oct 6, reading estimate oct 17 noon)

My latest offering combines features of Eastern and Western thought in a mish-mash that is utter madness. It is complicated so bear with me! Please read carefully to understand what is going on.

Following these instructions combined with the one-liners from this Feng Shui book, with standard RWS/Marseilles book meanings thrown in, I give you:

Chang's Minor League I Ching readings!

for feedback only! level of detail up to you, no need to reveal your secrets to the public ~ entertainment only : i don't pretend i know the future ~ the choices you make are YOURS

skewer your inner demons ~ view a picture of your reader

The kebob sticks are merely for show. I only use the minor Arcana cards for reading. Right now I have a full sized SHADOWSCAPES in my hands (Pui-Mun Law)

Instructions - read carefully, incomplete requests will be sent back to you to correct

Summary:

A) Ask your question or describe a situation

B) Pick a single rank from Ace, 2, 3 ... 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. NOTE: these will be discarded from the pile of Minors.

C) Pick a significator from the Minors for yourself that is NOT the same as part (B). This represents YOURSELF.

D) Pick a card from the Minors to represent "the other side" that is NOT the same as anything from (C) or (D).

E) Pick a KEYWORD/url/image for "the other side", example: "light", "dark", love, hate, cat, BCD, Johnny Cash, 129, etc, an URL to an image, or plain URL. This may also be a paragraph or sentence.

optional) On your feedback, you may simply say why you liked or disliked the reading, whether it was accurate, helpful, or just a bunch of baloney. I don't care, but the mods might if you simply walk away. This is a slow thread, so you have lots of time to think.

Explanation
Section A) Include one or more questions, or describe your situation with a story, anecdotes, keywords, whatever. The level of detail is up to you. The more I know about you, the longer my story will be. A one-line request will most likely be answered very vaguely.

Pics, web links, and diatribe (directed at me) are especially encouraged.

Section B) Pick a single "number/title/rank" out of the minor arcana to remove. This will reduce the original 56 cards to 52. That is, pick one out of the fourteen "numbers/titles/ranks": Aces, deuces, threes ... all the way to ... Pages, Knights, Queens, or Kings. These four cards will be removed from the I Ching draw.

Section C) Pick one card to be YOUR significator. Clearly mark that card to be yourself, and it cannot be a card from the 4 you chose to remove in Section (B). This does not have to be a "face card," you may pick the 3 of Wands.

Section D) Pick one card to be the other party. Again, the card cannot be from section (B) or (C). You must openly declare what this other party is, and the card you chose. The other party could be a name, an initial, a concept, an animal, an emotion, whatever. Some word or symbol. Even a pic. Examples: my dog Rover, my ex-girlfriend E, sorrow, Chocolate, F9, http://mlb.com/. The stranger, the better!

Procedure

Summary:
Two I Ching hexagrams will emerge, Present and Near Future.

For each of the six lines of the Present Hexagram, one minor Arcana card will mirror the reader, and one minor Arcana card will mirror the sitter.

Detailed explanation:
Now that 6 cards are "out" of the deck, I am left with 50 cards. These will be shuffled loosely, and the first card will be revealed to be me, the Reader. I will tell you what this card is for each line, and try to fit all six into your story. There may be repeats because I will need to shuffle six times.

The remaining 49 cards will be used like the 49 yarrow sticks of the traditional Yarrow method described here.

This method relies on "discarding fours" and I will reveal the bottom card of the "pile" for each shuffle/draw. These six cards will represent your side of the story. Again, there may be repeats.

I will post a "sample reading" for myself within the next half hour.

[OctavaSpera]

My question: What's my best course of action for combating ignorance and spreading knowledge?

My discarded rank: fives. I especially don't like the 5 of Pentacles.

My significator: Seven of Cups

Card for "ignorance": 9 of Pentacles

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Result:

6th draw -- abandoned
5th draw -- abandoned
4th draw -- abandoned -- too stressful reading for myself

-- -- stable Yin on 3rd draw, 2 of Swords (me) / Page of Wands (other), 5/4/8
— — stable Yang on 2nd draw, 2 of Cups (me) / Q of Pents (other), 5/8/8
— — stable Yang on 1st draw, 10 of Wands (me) / 6 of Pentacles (other), 5/8/8

Stable Lake on first Trigram. I better get some rest. Ten of Wands definitely show that I am over-exerting myself.

[rwcarter]

Interesting idea. I'd like to give this a try if you don't mind.

A. What is my financial outlook for the next six months?
B. 6
C. 4 Wands
D. 3 Pentacles, keyword "hope"

Thanks!

[cherryberry]

I would like to try this as well

A) Describe a question or situation -
I would like to get a sense where things are going between me and BC, we have been knowing each other for a while, really didnt get ion too well at the beginning or our paths just never crossed, but things changed a while ago and we got a bit closer, then both went travelling for a bit in the summer, now back in university (and work as well)


B) Pick a single rank from Ace, 2, 3 ... 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King
8

C) Pick a significator from the Minors for yourself
3 of wands

D) Pick a card from the Minors for "the other side"
BC, my love interest 6 of wands

[haleyw]

Me too please. After travelling around from place to place doing various things in various countries, I finally feel ready to settle down. I want somewhere to call my own and do something that I love. Where I really don't know! Can you just look at my life ahead and where it's going and if I am going to achieve this please.

Many thanks

Rank to remove: 5's

Significator: 10 of cups

Other side: stability and security Ace of Pentacles

[OctavaSpera]

OK I've lapsed, mr RWCarter is 1st, then miss cherry and mme haleyw, please be patient while i cleanse my tarot deck with some frankincense

[OctavaSpera]

Originally Posted by rwcarter

Interesting idea. I'd like to give this a try if you don't mind.

A. What is my financial outlook for the next six months?
B. 6
C. 4 Wands
D. 3 Pentacles

Thanks!

Mr RWCarter, you have to add a "Keyword" in part D, such as "money", or "greenbacks", or "silver dollars".

Please correct and re-post or edit the original post

[OctavaSpera]

Originally Posted by cherryberry

I would like to try this as well

A) Describe a question or situation -
I would like to get a sense where things are going between me and BC, we have been knowing each other for a while, really didnt get ion too well at the beginning or our paths just never crossed, but things changed a while ago and we got a bit closer, then both went travelling for a bit in the summer, now back in university (and work as well)


B) Pick a single rank from Ace, 2, 3 ... 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King
8

C) Pick a significator from the Minors for yourself
3 of wands

D) Pick a card from the Minors for "the other side"
BC, my love interest 6 of wands

CONCLUSION

#9 (small offering) ==> #11 TAI (Great, peaceful prosperity, heaven and earth unite to end all feuds)

This is a very favorable reading I think its message is to keep a low profile and save all the money you can right now. Don't waste effort/money/energy blindly because no one else (outside you and BC) are paying attention anyway. It will all be good, it's just a matter of timing

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OK Your CRAZY eights are cooking next to the incense right now. Check it out, update coming soon, about 30 minutes

the significators

— -- 6th draw : Chang is 3 of Pents, BC is 10 of Cups again. BC is totally the winner. 5/4/4 it's over, all small.

— -- 5th draw : I am 10 of Pentacles, BC is 10 of Cups. Would you rather have 10 gold coins, or 10 goblets of wine???? Is the gold real? Is the wine poisoned????? ????? (ten question marks) five/four/four (all small = changing Yang)

-- -- Yin/Yin on 4th draw : I am the Valet d'epee, about to shred the nonsense that's plaguing you. BC is the Cavalier d'Epee (Me: Page of Swords vs. BC: Knight of Swords). Will the horsed rider trample the Page???? FIVE/four/8

— — Yang/Yang on 3rd draw I am 5 of Pents, you are 7 of Wands. I made a mistake, so I'm discarding that number. Is BC from Boston College??? NINE/4/8

— — Yang/Yang on 2nd draw: I am the 3 of Cups. You are the Cavalier de Coupe (Knight of Cups). 5/8/8
— — Yang/Yang on 1st draw: I am the King of Cups. You guys are 9 of Cups. FIVE/Eight/Eight Go read about this movie in IMDB while I "discard fours"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060908/

FIRST TRIGRAM IS actually HEAVEN --- Chang messed up and called it MOUNTAIN earlier. Chang is an idiot.

[MantraTarot]

A) Describe a question or situation
how will i do creatively-speaking over the next few months?

B) Pick a single rank from Ace, 2, 3 ... 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King
not found of the 5's, so 5, please.

C) Pick a significator from the Minors for yourself
hmm tough one. i suppose i'd like the 9 pents, please.

D) Pick a card from the Minors for "the other side"
other side, eh? how about 9 cups then, for "happiness."

[OctavaSpera]

Originally Posted by MantraTarot

A) Describe a question or situation
how will i do creatively-speaking over the next few months?

B) Pick a single rank from Ace, 2, 3 ... 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King
9 is my favorite #, so 9, please.

C) Pick a significator from the Minors for yourself
hmm tough one. i suppose i'd like the 9 pents, please.

D) Pick a card from the Minors for "the other side"
other side, eh? how about 9 cups then?

Nines are REMOVED from the deck in part B. So parts C and D need different ranked cards. Like, 7 of pents, or King of cups.

For Part D), I mean, for the "other side", it has to be something a bit more specific, a KEYWORD like "art", or "paintings", or a flickr link, or a URL. "Other side" by itself is not good enough. Please correct.

Sorry that the instructions are convoluted. It's a crazy scheme I have. Instead of picking your favorite cards, you are picking your least favorites for the most part.