Learn the two traditions
Plain-spoken guides, checked for accuracy. Start with how a symbol set is built, learn to cast and to draw, then see how a Chinese oracle and a European deck end up asking the same kind of question.
What is yin and yang?
One whole splits in two, then four, then eight. How the trigrams are born from a single idea.
The eight trigrams
Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Water, Mountain, Wind, Fire, Lake — the eight three-line figures and their meanings.
The 64 hexagrams
The whole Book of Changes at a glance — every hexagram in King Wen order, with its trigrams and counsel.
How the I Ching works
The three-coin method, moving lines, the changing hexagram, and how to ask a question worth asking.
How to read Tarot
The 78-card structure, upright and reversed, and two simple spreads you can read for yourself tonight.
Tarot and the I Ching
Two oracles from opposite ends of Eurasia that turn out to rhyme — and where each sees what the other can't.
Cast a hexagram
When the reading makes sense, put it to work: cast the coins and read your own hexagram.