Know where an interpretation comes from.

What the Academy teaches

Picture observation, contextual interpretation, questions, reading methods and clear communication. These are skills that can be practiced and examined.

Traditional meanings and personal associations are labeled as interpretations. A reading does not establish another person’s private thoughts or guarantee a future event.

What learning research supports

Worked examples, retrieval questions, spacing and integrated images can help people learn. This evidence concerns learning methods. It does not establish predictive accuracy for divination.

Exercises about line values or visible image details have checkable answers. Interpretive exercises consider support and context, rather than score a single universal meaning.

A picture and its associations

Describe first. Associate second.

A leaf can suggest many things to different people. First describe the visible shape. Then identify the association as an interpretation and ask whether it fits the question.

Jung’s foreword to Wilhelm/Baynes belongs to a twentieth-century psychological discussion of the I Ching. It is separate from the early Chinese text and from evidence about prediction.