I Ching of the Goddess

[FaeRain]

My hubby gave me this beautiful deck/book for Valentines Day. It's not a tarot deck, but a divination deck. The artwork is soooo diverse. THe pictures depict Asian, Egyptian, African, Greek,
there's even a card with Jesus on the cross.

Each card has the lines that go with the I Ching, the trigram I believe they are called. It's by Barbara Walker, and is based on the idea that that the original I Ching was a goddess based divination system.

I had never seen or heard of this deck. Anyone here know about it?

[FaeRain]

http://www.cygnus-books.co.uk/mind_body_spirit_books/i_ching_goddess.htm

Guess no one has heard of this so I found a link to it. I didn't see any images of the cards, but I am half-awake so I might have missed it. I like the cards a lot, but am confused as how to use them. My husband uses the I Ching book, and had a chart as to when the hexagrams fell. Am I supposed to follow that or just use them more like tarot cards? That's what I'm confused about.:confused:

FaeRain

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

I would use them more like the I-Ching. The cards obviously are meant for that intent. It's just a different format. You don't use the coins or the yarrow sticks; instead using the cards. I know many people are more comfortable with cards, and this will give the querant something nice to look at while the divining is going on.

Wishing you much luck with these beautiful cards!

~D

[Hazel witchazel]

I have just purchased the i ching for the goddess by barbara walker and am very impressed with it. Although she does not mention about the changing lines i believe that you can work round this. Barbara walker also uses the fzu hsu version of the i ching which makes it alot more easy to understand. I also have the barbara walker tarot deck which is very impressive as well. The whole key to understanding the i ching is to understand and get to know the eight triagrams, and learn which triagrams are stable and which are unstable. Once you understand the triagrams you can quite easily interpret the hexagrams.and as for using the cards - you can use them the traditional i ching way, by throwing coins and then once you have got your hexagram(s) picking out the relevant card(S) and meditating upon them or you can read the cards either like you would in a tarot spread , but with the hexagrams giving additional information, and as you go from card to card interpret how the hexagrams have changed triagram by triagram, it would just be a case of working out if the triagrams and hexagrams had become more stable , or balanced or unstable. Hence you have the changing lines. You can usually pick up a book on i ching from the remainder book shops for £1 that will cover the changing lines.

blessed be

crystal runewitch x

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[13thChylde]

I have this deck too!

I am such a doltz!! I just saw the last response and thought it was a new thread, when it's actually an old thread that I started back when I was Faerain. I *still* don't know what to do with this deck!!

[Hazel witchazel]

Greetings
I think the whole key to understanding these cards is to learn as much as you can about the eight triagrams ( groups of three lines representing the 8 different chinese elements)
i lay the cards out in the celtic cross pattern as with the tarot ( whilst remembering of course that they are not tarot cards) and read the hexagrams on each card and the pictures and relate them to the others cards pictures and hexagrams in the reading.
i hope this has helped
blessed be

crystal runewitch


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