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No, I pull two. To get the moving lines.rachelcat said:How do you read with I Ching cards? Do you just pull one card?
That is how I do it, yes. To start. Then I use my intuition and knowledge.And then do you look up the meaning of the hexagram in a book?
I can't see why you would get more moving lines that way. What makes you think that?I seem to remember a book recommending you draw 2 cards in order to get changing lines (the ones that are different between the first and second cards). I have a feeling you would get a lot more changing lines that way than through coin tossing.
It might if I thought that were true.Would that make a difference to you?
When I throw coins I use a method I detailed somewhere in another thread. I'll see if I can find it. It makes the odds correct. I cannot see how the cards have anything to do with the odds when you through coins, draw stalks whatever. Maybe I am not seeing the point though.Are you concerned about the difference in odds between yarrow stalks, coin tosses, and drawing 1 or 2 cards?
I love I Ching, it is my constant companion and has been for the better part of two decades. Seems just as immediate to me, but then I am very used to both Tarot and I Ching and find neither cumbersome. It is true though, I cannot memorize the meanings of all 64 hexagrams, plus up to 6 changing lines and the trasnforming, Inner etc etc hexagrams. I do have to look them up.I have begun to study I Ching, but I find the bibliomancy/sortilege aspect (having to look up the reading in a book) makes it less immediate and more cumbersome than tarot reading, where the meanings are in my head! How do you feel about that?
I use both methods, though I Ching speaks its message to me more easily and clearly. I am very attracted to the visual aspects of tarot and also to the written and numerical aspects of IC. Go figure, must have two sides to my brain and they both like 'mancy.