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Does anyone have experience with multiple divination methods? What are your opinions on the comparison between Yi and them?
 

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I've laid out cards and then consulted the I Ching when I wanted help with the interpretation. I've gotten valid answers although it is time consuming.
Oh! I just realized you probably meant using different tools separately. I mainly use the I Ching but I use astrology when I'm wanting to know timing or to pick the best day to do something. I use tarot when I'm reading for others as people tend to engage better when they see pictures. Their eyes glaze over if you say things like, "How interesting! I see you got a six in the bottom line of hexagram 44 which means the yin broken line is changing to a yang solid so now we look at hexagram 1.The Creative!"
 

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I use tarot when I'm reading for others as people tend to engage better when they see pictures. Their eyes glaze over if you say things like, "How interesting! I see you got a six in the bottom line of hexagram 44 which means the yin broken line is changing to a yang solid so now we look at hexagram 1.The Creative!"

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I've found the I Ching and astrology to be quite complementary. If I want to know about a person or moment in time, an astrology chart has more information and might be more clear than a reading. But I think they'd work well together. If I want a picture of my relationship with someone, I'd cast the synastry chart, but maybe also ask Yi particular questions.

Some topics just seem more suited for question-and-answer. E.g. "How to approach Leslie about this?" seems better as a reading.
 
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I have very, very little experience with other divination systems - though lately I have been reading Michael Nylan's translation of the T'ai Hsuang Ching - or the 'Canon of Supremem Mystery' and have done a few readings with it that were informative and helpful (though I'm not giving up the Yi just yet!).

My general sense is that what we are trying to do is create a resonance or connection between ourselves - our question, situation, etc - and the wider universe, however we want to define it (the universe, the Dao, the ancestors, ascended beings, God, the gods, Gaia, ....)

And I sort of assume that other divination systems can achieve this 'resonance' just as the Yi can. But as to comparing them, or how complementary they are, I really can't speak with much experience.

Bradford Hatcher's website has a page, Tarot as a Counseling Language: Core Meanings of the Cards, where he has 'correspondences' between the Yi's hexagrams and trigrams and the different tarot cards (and also correspondences with astrology and the Qabalah). I sometimes look here to see what a particular tarot card might offer by way of helping me understand a reading or hexgram, or trigram - though I see this as supplemental material only, and it doesn't constitue doing a 'tarot reading'.

all the best ...
 
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Does anyone have experience with multiple divination methods? What are your opinions on the comparison between Yi and them?

I've been studying divination systems all my life... From Tarot in different forms, remote viewing, horary astrology(not as much), directly "receiving" from sephirot in kabbalah,countless forms of channeling to many, many others.

I find most of them perfectly fitting to each other, weak points in some of them are balanced wonderfully by others.

Specifically for our astrology, I have often mention in forums that in my view our astrology and what we call "chinese astrology",seems to have been one large system at some point in time.
The idea of Images象 and the way they are used in the Five Arts , can help a lot in learning our astrology, as well..
(five arts is what all this - divination, birth chart reading, even healing and cooking and much more is studied and called in that part of Asia).

For comparing them in more detail it would depend on what specific system you want to know about in relation to the Yi(I assume that is the text with the lines in this case).
 

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I use astrology to look at inner tensions and outer opportunities in development, spirit and soul growth. Sometimes for probabilities in outcomes.

I use I Ching for personally critical matters and to change focus on the astrology chart when forces seem to be unusually difficult or there's a lot of Neptune, 12th house, and weak energies in critical positions.

Tarot and I have a peculiar relationship. I have such a gift for drawing the ugliest cards in the deck in a single that I only use it from time to time. Yes, every life will have these encounters, but seeing them over and over isn't helpful to me.

So, I find it helpful sometimes to validate my sense of the energy field with more than one method.
 

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This is an interesting thread! They are all unique systems and I've found the I-Ching and Tarot to be more similar in terms of dealing with fluid energy, rather than fixed energy- although there are readings in Tarot/Yi that do point to fixed energy. Generally it's easier to deduce readings about something that's current than something that's deep in the future. Granted, I'm fairly inexperienced when it comes to Tarot.

I practice Vedic astrology (mostly as an amateur) we use sidereal placements- essentially everything is moved back about 23 degrees.

That does deal with more fixed and distant energies. Like people mentioned, timing is easier in Astrology in general and can allow you to get more precise. Vedic Astrology in particular has these fractal-like divisional charts to surgically open areas of your life (like career, relationships etc) and all these deep planetary systems that cover long periods ranging from 2 decades to 6 years. You can see specific info about past life karma, longevity, timing of birth of children etc. One of my teachers could differentiate between 'fluid' karma and 'fixed' karma, meaning where in your life do you have free will vs not so much.
 

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I totally agree, this is very interesting question
During early 1970 when the occult was at a peak of popularity I first came upon the Egyptian Tarot, printed on black and white cards, while all the others were in color. Soon afterwards I discovered the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching, and I became completely captivated. Before finding the I Ching I learned a bit about Alchemy, enough to remember to many practitioners it was really an internal art cultivating the development of a spiritual state invisible to casual observers.
Nowadays, after years of focus on the I Ching, I find myself realizing that focus has selected experiences that are inspiring me to practice a form of alchemy as I discover better ways to Change the smooth outer surface of emptied bird shells to display engraved ancient OBI (oracle bone inscriptions). Many times I get the feeling that incising the script into the shells is echoing through time the same intention experienced all the way back when tortoise shells and ox bones were accepting the engraving.
So I must totally concur that blending divination methods results in enriching the experience :!
~Allan
 

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Hmm, no. I've never really got into any other form of divination, apart from having a handful of tarot readings done for me decades ago. And I'm not really drawn to it. Or astrology. Honestly, until I met some people in the RFO class who were obviously very skilled with it, I had quite a low opinion of it. I always thought it was very deterministic. I was wrong, of course, but that was the impression I had. I don't quite know why I put the Yijing in a different category, but I do.
 

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I believe that the stars can predict a person's destiny. Astrology is a science very close to my heart. As a teenager, I became interested in horoscopes and natal charts. For me, the stars are the guides of life. Perhaps my words sound strange. But people who are into astrology understand me. I think many of you know about such a concept as the Midheaven. It plays an important role in the human cosmogram. Thanks to it, one can know the path of success, weaknesses, and strengths of a person born under a certain zodiac sign. At https://www.trulydivine.com/midheaven/cancer-midheaven, I found this information about my zodiac sign.
 
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