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Study Tarot and I Ching through guided lessons, reference meanings and reading practice. Start with the basics, then learn to explain a reading using the text and the facts.
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Tarot
24 guided lessons, all 78 card meanings and twelve spread guides with interactive layouts.
Preview the Tarot courseI Ching
21 guided lessons, all 64 hexagram meanings, three-coin practice and a reading notebook.
Preview the I Ching coursePreview the Tarot course
See the lessons, meanings and spread guides before joining.
Build the foundations
Work from a useful question to a complete reading, with personal examples and quizzes that explain each answer.
From a first question to a complete reading
The Tarot course has eight modules and 24 guided lessons. Open the course to study the full lessons.
Open the Tarot course freeTarot card meanings
22 Major Arcana. 56 Minor Arcana.
Learn how spreads work
Choose a layout. Explore the positions. See how the cards contribute to a reading.
Open the spread guidesPreview the I Ching course
See the lessons, the reference format and the reading process before joining.
From the first question to a complete reading
Begin with the basics, then build toward a reading in your own words. Select a module to preview its topics.
Begin with I Ching
Meet the Book of Changes, learn why people consult the I Ching and follow an example reading.
- What is the I Ching?
- Why do people consult the I Ching?
- What does change mean in the I Ching?
- Follow a complete I Ching reading
Understand the hexagram
See how lines and trigrams form a figure, then learn what changing lines do.
- Solid and broken lines
- Six lines, built upward
- Two trigrams form a hexagram
- How to read a hexagram entry
- What a changing line does
Make sense of a reading
Follow the question, the three coins and the reasoning behind an interpretation.
- Ask an I Ching question
- Cast with three coins
- Choose which passage to read
- Understand the passage
- Connect the passage to the situation
- Save a first reading
Develop your practice
Compare interpretations, consider timing and review earlier readings.
- When several lines change
- Compare two interpretations
- Timing and position
- Read the primary and relating hexagrams
- Return to an earlier reading
- A reading in your own words
These are course previews. The full lessons and study activities open after email confirmation.
Inside a hexagram entry
Each entry includes the hexagram, Chinese name and pinyin, with separate sections for Symbolism, Meaning, Judgment and the six lines.
One entry, several ways to study
- Symbolism
- The arrangement of the figure and its traditional images.
- Meaning
- A contemporary explanation of its themes.
- Judgment
- A separately labeled paraphrase of the statement for the whole hexagram.
- Line explanations
- An explanation for each line, numbered from the bottom upward.
Register and confirm your email to open the full library. This preview shows how each entry is organized.
See how a reading fits together
Follow the steps taught in the course using a fixed example. New coin throws are available inside the course.
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Bring a question
Learn to ask a focused question and separate known facts from assumptions.
Cast three coins
Each throw supplies one line. Six throws build the figure from the bottom upward.
Recognize the figure
The course shows how the six lines identify a hexagram and lead to its text.
Notice changing lines
Fixed example: changing the solid bottom line of Return to a broken line produces The Receptive. The lessons explain how changing positions affect what is read.
Read with context
Learn which passage to read, then explain how that passage relates to the situation.
Keep and review the reading
My Study saves the original reading and keeps later observations in separate dated reviews.
Choose a course to begin
Both courses are free with a confirmed DuoSages account. Open Tarot or I Ching to begin.
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