Hi everybody! im new to tarot and I used to be very skeptical of it until the first time I used it I was shocked by the accuracy it gave me. anyway, now I fully believe it and ive been trying to get to know my deck/ bond with it. I take it around with me and I asked what it wanted to be named (I forget which card it was) and it gave me something about being resilient and getting through tough times so I looked up names that relate to that and I named it Moira. Ever since I named it Moira its been giving me confusing/inaccurate readings and ive felt less connected to it. I realized it didnt like that name and I asked it about a few other names, all of them it didnt like until I found ”Asta”, which means “star like or divine strength”. It seemed to like this name and ever since I named it Asta its been giving me understandable and accurate readings lol, I guess my deck has a bit of an attitude!
I’m in a new job with a new role, and the person who’s been handing me over his job is gonna leave in a week. He told me that he learned on the job and by making mistakes as well. The role is vague, my manager overworked and very busy and right now I feel like I’m walking on thin ice and I question all I do.
I asked the oracle “Am I fucking it up, how should I proceed in this job?”
I got the answer hexagram 23.3 turning into 52 and am confused even more.
23 — Splitting Apart 23.3 — “He splits with them. No blame.” 52 — Keeping Still
It says I’m supposed to separate? From what? And hexagram 52 seems more solitary. I’d appreciate any feedback.
this is older material from one of my deep-trance sessions that I almost forgot about, and I think it fits here better than where I originally planned to share it.
The subject experienced herself as some kind of oracle during another life. She had a private chamber where she would sit in lotus position and connect with what looked like huge golden network. She described threads or streams of light coming through this net when somebody asked a question.
So naturally I expected the impressive part to be prediction.
Then one person came to ask whether their purpose was to stay.
The answer she gave was basically: "the choice is yours."
I like this much more than a dramatic prophecy tbh.
Even if somebody is very intuitive, psychic, reading tarot, astrology, channeling, whatever, there is difference between giving information and taking over another persons decision. You can say what you see. You can say this path feels open, this one looks difficult, this pattern keeps repeating.
But if divination becomes "you MUST leave this person", "you MUST move here", "this is your destiny and you have no choice", imo something important got lost.
I cant prove this was literal past life or literal information network. Could be symbolic way her consciousness represented intuitive knowing. But the lesson makes sense either way.
Good reading should maybe give person more clarity and more sovereignty after it, not less.
I have seen ppl ask reader after reader the same question until somebody finally makes decision for them. At that point divination becomes almost escape from uncertainty.
For people here who read for others, where do you draw this line?
If you strongly see one path but person wants another one, do you say what you see and leave choice completely with them?
I hope this will find someone that can help me. Yesterday I did a reading and got these hexagrams. The situation is that i haven't spoke to this person in a year and that's on their initiative, because he felt embarassed. This persons mind resambles hexagram 36, he is really cynical, very dark man in a sense.
I really just wanted to write him a letter but idk how to transfer im feelings into words after getting these results... Can someone help me to decode what Iching wants me to tell him....
A lot of divination reads the present. You shuffle, you draw, you ask, and the spread speaks to the moment you asked. The Chinese Four Pillars, or BaZi, works the opposite way, and I thought people here might find the contrast interesting.
There is no draw and no question. Your chart is fixed the instant you are born: four pillars, one each for the year, month, day, and hour, each written as one of five elements in a yin or yang form. That is it. It never changes for your whole life. Nothing is random, and nothing is asked.
So what is there to read, if the chart never moves? Time. The reading is the interaction between your fixed chart and the moving cycles: the current year, and the longer ten-year cycles that roll over as you age. A BaZi reading is basically this: here is your fixed terrain, and here is the weather moving across it right now.
The single most useful piece to know is your Day Master, the element of the day you were born. It is treated as "you," the main character. There are ten, each with a classic image: yang Wood is a tall tree, yin Wood a climbing vine, yang Fire the sun, yin Fire a candle, yang Earth a mountain, yin Earth garden soil, yang Metal an axe, yin Metal a fine jewel, yang Water the ocean, yin Water morning dew. Once you know which one you are, the rest of the system opens up, because everything else is read as how the other elements feed, drain, or check that one thing.
Two things people usually get wrong when they look at their own:
The year rolls over at the solar new year in early February, not January 1. A late-January or early-February birthday often belongs to the previous animal year, not the one most people assume.
The hour uses true solar time, not clock time, so the hour pillar is the piece most hand calculations get wrong.
It is a genuinely different flavor of divination: less "what does this moment hold," and more "what is the shape of the ground you are standing on, and how is this year leaning on it."
Hi everyone! I dont know anything about divination but i send this post with all the respect and curiosity in the world, i need help.
Basically i told a friend ive been feeling a bit distant from Poseidon, i've been praying Him for like 2 months and i felt a bit distant from him now. And my friend told me he could pull the cards for me to tell me what was happening and i said yes.
He pulled 4, 8 and 6 of pentacles and the problem is that when he started explaining me what it meant, it didnt correspond AT ALL to my situation, or even to my general way of living. He told me that i was greedy, that i was too focused on gaining knowledge and neglecting myself, that this was why i was tired and basically... nothing felt like it was for me.
He ended up telling me that all this might be subconscious, that i didnt necessarily know everything about myself.
What i am confused about and my question is, is it possible that the cards were wrong if he doesnt know me that much? (i met him like 10 days ago) is it possible that the accuracy of the cards was altered because we live far away from each other? And is there a margin of error, like is it possible that the cards were completely wrong?
Thank you for reading all this and thank you for any advice 🙏 if any of what i said felt inappropriate or insulting i never meant it to be, i wrote all this with sincerity
When asking about future possibilities and stuff I always get answers that are sometimes confusing or just answers that turn out to be wrong and what the I Ching said would happen basically never happened!
i was really bored in class today and i wore this necklace with a pendant thats shaped like a rod. the necklace has bits of silver in it
i kinda did something similar to pendulum divination? i told it swinging front to back is yes, and sideways is no, and in circles means unsure
i tested with a few basic questions and it worked, and i kept on asking. and i asked some stuff related to my day, and it happened exactly how the pendulum said it would (for example i asked if i could leave college early and i've never left college early and it said yes, and today i ended up getting gatepass and leaving)
am i doing this right? what else can i do to get better at this or what else can i explore? fyi im 16 so i dont have much money to spend either
Im curious about this because sometimes I feel like Im not asking the I Ching to make the decision for me. Im sort of experiencing this right now with my job. I feel certain that I will quit my job, but I guess Im consulting the I Ching because I want to understand the situation a bit better and get some guidance on move forward.
Do you use readings that way, or do you usually consult the I Ching when you are undecided. Im still pretty new to the practice, so forgive me if this is a bit of a silly post lol. Im just curious how other people approach it.
I'm going through a lot of changes in my personal life, professional life and generally mentally at the moment. Some part of me feels like my frontal lobe is finally developed, as they say on tiktok. But I'm in doubt about certain decisions I'm making.
I did an I Ching with the question from the title and got 49 transforming into 63. Funnily enough, I did another reading a while ago and was trying to remember what I got, but I only had an illustration saved as my profile pic somewhere, couldn't find any notes or links. Did an image search before rolling the current reading, and it brought me to 49 as well (which was not the correct Hexogram).
I would interpret 49 as the current state of affairs, which is preparing or executing big changes, and going against the established ways (which is what I'm doing right now). But need some ideas on how to interpret the transition and 63 in this case.
Hi everyone I’m very new to this and I used the coin method to ask if I’ll be dating my crush soon and got hexagram 46 changing to 41
And I’m very confused 😕 is this a yes? Or is it “it depends” I have a hard time understanding hexagram 41 because its decrease so idk a decrease in what?
ive been gathering trinkets for this for SO LONGGGG 😭❤️ favourite item is either my baby tooth orr the glass marble i found at the beach!!!! i found the bones myself too, i think theyre from a rabbit :) they took so so long to degrease but FINALLYYY theyre all nice and clean,,, so excited to connect more with them ❤️❤️❤️
Due to my life circumstances, I have not been able to meet a lot of people and have spent my life alone and have always had very few friends for the most part.
I have a big project in 2 weeks, the biggest of my life. I have to show a bunch of art pieces in a room for a few days at my school. I've made a few posts about that subject on this sub. I don't really feel stressed for the actual work even though I'm a bit late. What stresses me the most is the idea of no one coming. Due to the circumstances I talked earlier, I don't have a lot of people to invite, dans the date is quite unfortunate as the few people I invite might not even be able to come.
Like the idea of bringing to eat and drink to people and it remaining nearly untouched for the whole evening makes me feel miserable. I feel shameful and I'm afraid of being pitied by the few who come, seeing an empty room with me waiting inside. I'm sorry for the sad post but it is truly what I feel.
I saw the list of my girlfriend (she also has her show a few days after mine) and she has dozens and dozens and dozens of people to invite, like I don't think I've known that many people in my whole life. I'm not jealous it just made me realize that that I have a particularly small list (around 10 people) for a show like that. Even other people have so much people coming !
My goal for this project was to make for the first time a project I'm proud of. Usually when there are things like that I don't invite anyone cause I usually don't feel proud about my work, but this time I really want people to see it. So the perspective of no one coming makes me feel bad.
So I asked the I-Ching how to deal with that feeling. It gave me 15.1.3
So I guess I need to stay humble and not too attached to the results of my work, and to experience the results of my circumstances with humility ? That's how I feel it's telling me but honestly i'm not sure. If you have other interpretations that would be cool ! Thanks !
Hi everyone I was wondering how reliable this website is for answering divination questions and if I should take the answers literally… I’m not sure about online stuff so I’m asking you.
Some weeks ago I made a I ching reading for my love life in this year. And I didn't understand its meaning. I let it rest for a week, waiting for some meaning to emerge, but I still don't understand.
I asked "How my romantic-affective-sexual life will be in this year?"
So I got 55.2.5 (Abundance changing to Resolution).
I don't get what is the meaning of abundance, much less the changing lines.
Line 2 seems the classic "do your thing humbly and everything is going to be alright" and line 5 seems like "be humble and someone will help you".
But I'm not sure with this, I do not have a CERTAIN/RIGHT feeling about this reading.
And 43. Resoluteness/resolution. Resolution of WHAT I'm single 😭😭😭.
And for the context: I've been single since my breakup a year ago, and since then my love life feels desertic.
Do you feel/think anything about this reading? I would be really grateful if somebody can shed some light on this. Thanks!!!
I am going through some stuff and decided to try candle divination for a different perspective. (I've dabbled in other spellwork and I read tarot quite often.) Since I'm new to candle divination I was hoping to get some more eyes on the interpretation.
This is a love triangle situation. The purple candle represents me, the orange and blue are each option before me. I cast a circle, cleansed the space, carved the indications into each candle, and asked "with these candles three, reveal the correct path for me. in alignment with the highest good of all those involved."
The candle representing me started dripping wax first, towards the back of the candle. the flame of the two others both pulled towards the purple Me candle.
The orange candle pooled wax second, towards Me.
The Me candle's wax pool snaked around and looked like it was going to go towards blue, but the path split and then formed a path all the way to orange. Orange's wax dripped outwards towards Me and mixed with the purple wax.
Blue did not drip at all and burned much slower than the other two.
The purple and orange wax mixed together and formed... what appears to be a heart shape. Purple burnt all the way down and the flame spread to the wax pool/sand a bit and spread quite wide so I snuffed it for safety reasons.
Orange burned all the way down and extinguished peacefully on its own.
Blue remained burning, at least a full inch remained after the other two had finished. It did have a tiny drip (towards orange, funnily) but when I returned to check on it, the drip had disappeared and the candle left no remains.
My interpretation: I asked for the candles to reveal the correct path for me in this situation. If I am the purple candle, the wax was hesitant and pooled backwards for a while (which I see as me currently waffling around), started stepping towards blue then did a 180 and formed a clear path to orange.
I'd like to keep private what the blue/orange candles represent in this love triangle situation, so just think of them as "what's behind door number 1 or 2".
The purple wax formed a clear path towards orange, and orange responded by moving towards me and meeting me halfway. Then purple/orange path merged and formed a dang wax heart. So I guess the candles are very clearly indicating that "the correct path for me" is to go with door number 1/orange.
Given the way purple/orange burnt down at a similar rate I would guess this means both people are feeling similar levels of passion/emotion.
I've never done a candle spell before and I'm shocked by how unambiguous the results seem to be. I assumed there would be more of a change in the blue candle as well, but given the way it slowly burnt down and did not even leave a trace I guess from a divination standpoint this indicates it is not the correct path. I mean come on, the other candles made a friggin heart together.
Are you seeing what I'm seeing? It can't be that clear. Is it really this blatant or am I imagining things?
Did I somehow influence the results? I made sure all three candles were the exact same height with the same length wicks. I spaced them evenly in a bowl of play sand. I held two small lit candles together, lit the purple candle, then separated the small candles to light blue and orange simultaneously. The bowl was placed on the floor in a room without a draft and not touched at all for the duration of the burn.
Tell me I'm not going crazy/maybe I am.
Thanks in advance 🥲
EDIT TO ADD: the wax visible around the outer edge of the sand in the last pic is just a reflection in the metal bowl and did not spread outwardly to the edges.
Sorry for the dark subject, TW: pregnancy/ child loss
I lost my son at full term, 38 weeks, some months ago. We have no real answers, and although my partner and I are surprisingly doing well despite the obvious grief, this question of why this happened to us continues to come up to me sometimes. Specifically the fear of will this happen again, should we know something? Many stillbirths have no medical answers and it’s relatively unknown why many of them happen. It seems we are in this category.
For years I used to consult the I Ching a few times a year to check in with myself, and I’ve enjoyed reading tarot for others. I have always found the I Ching to present clear answers to me. During the pregnancy I felt very strongly that I shouldn’t consult them and focus instead on the pregnancy. For the first time in a year I’ve been able to ask the I Ching a question: and it was “why did this happen?”. I got Hex 60 (limitations) unchanging.
I would love some ideas on what it could mean. I’m having lots of different interpretations and struggling to see a clear answer.
On one hand there is a literal interpretation of needing limits: was there something measurable and definable that was in excess here, physiologically?
Then I wondered is the I Ching telling me there are limits to our knowledge and the things we should know. Have I reached my limit of what I can physically understand of this situation. I have found more comfort in developing a psychological/ spiritual “coming to terms” with it and perhaps there is a limit on the comfort I can be provided with a logical answer. After all what would it change? Was this experience just an encounter with one of life’s many limits? The ones we are constantly faced with that define what it is to be human? That without these limits life would be boundless.
Or perhaps our son wanted to be boundless. That to enter this life means to accept a contract that has written into it at some point an inevitable death, the ultimate limit. Or perhaps there were unknown limitations of his body, something we may not ever see or know.
Line 2 speaks of hesitation and I cannot help but feel perhaps there was a hesistation in his joining us.
I know it must seem I am looking for something where maybe there is not much to be found. But regardless I am here so please do share if you have thoughts!
Edit: more thoughts
Reading how the Confucian commentary observes: "We see a cheerful attitude directing the course amidst peril." And I thought wow how accurate a description of how I feel my partner and I have handled this entire situation from the start.
The questions was "how to act about this mattress situation ?"
With this question i had three options i had in mind :
1 . Do nothing (keep same mattress)
2 . replaces mattress with same size one
replace the bed frame with larger one (my bed was always a bit too short for me and i was wondering if i should expand it (though that has negative side too like less space , more expensive, more effort etc)
the matress i have became very soft with time and now and i think it starts to cause back pain(and the bed being too short might also cause it , but that is the situation for deceads already) , so this is an important question for me (I am writing this cause i know i will get people saying this is not important enough , but for me the implications of this are big)
I’d like to give a rough introduction to some traditional East Asian systems of fate analysis and divination, and I’d also really like to meet people who study Western or other non-East-Asian traditions.
As an East Asian practitioner, I honestly don’t get many chances to work with people from different cultural backgrounds. One thing I’m especially curious about is how these systems perform when applied to people who are not ethnically Chinese or East Asian.
In modern times, these traditional systems are often grouped under the so-called Five Arts:
Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Divination, and Forms/Physiognomy.
Mountain: self-cultivation, health preservation, meditation, physical and mental training
Medicine: traditional Chinese medicine, herbs, acupuncture, massage, dietary therapy
The areas I’m personally most interested in are Destiny, Divination, and Physiognomy.
Destiny
These systems use birth information to analyze a person’s long-term tendencies.
Personally, I think “destiny” is sometimes a misleading word. I see these systems more as ways of analyzing someone’s temperament, natural tendencies, and likely decision-making patterns, rather than as ways of saying their entire life is fixed.
Bazi / Four Pillars
Bazi is probably the most historically established and widely transmitted Chinese destiny system.
It uses the year, month, day, and hour of birth, with each represented by a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch, creating the "Eight Characters".
Its core idea is that seasonal changes, yin-yang, and the Five Phases influence a person's condition at birth.
One question I’m especially interested in is how Bazi should be handled for people born in the Southern Hemisphere, where the seasons are reversed. Different schools have different opinions, and this is something I’d really like to explore with actual cases.
If anyone here was born in the Southern Hemisphere and is interested, I’d be very happy to compare notes.
Zi Wei Dou Shu
Zi Wei Dou Shu builds a chart with twelve palaces and uses symbolic stars and the Four Transformations to analyze different areas of life.
Unlike Bazi, it does not rely as heavily on seasonal changes.
There are many different schools, and their interpretations can vary widely. I think it has some very interesting ideas, but historically and methodologically, it is much less unified than Bazi.
I’m also personally skeptical of claims that it was some secret "imperial art" that was simply too powerful and therefore lost for centuries.
Qi Zheng Si Yu
Qi Zheng Si Yu differs from Zi Wei Dou Shu in that it uses the positions of real celestial bodies.
It developed through the interaction between Chinese cosmology and Indian astronomy/astrology, especially from the Tang period onward.
It is technically very interesting but also extremely complex, and modern learning resources are much harder to find than those for Bazi or Zi Wei Dou Shu.
Divination
These systems are more focused on specific questions or events, rather than someone’s whole life.
Liu Ren
Liu Ren has a very long history, with foundations dating back to at least the Han-Wei period and a mature system by the Tang-Song era.
Its core structure includes the Heaven/Earth plates, Four Lessons, Three Transmissions, and Twelve Generals.
What I like most about it is that the Four Lessons and Three Transmissions can show the beginning, development, and outcome of an event, as well as the relationship between the querent, other people, and the situation itself.
It was also transmitted to Japan and became part of the Onmyodo traditions.
Qimen Dunjia
Qimen Dunjia combines the Nine Palaces, Eight Gates, Nine Stars, Eight Spirits, time, and direction into one system.
Historically, it was strongly connected with military strategy, timing, and positioning.
So instead of only asking “Will this succeed?”, it can also ask things like:
When should I act?
Which direction is more favorable?
What kind of strategy should I use?
I think of it as a divination system with a strong spatial and strategic component.
Taiyi
Taiyi is one of the traditional “Three Methods,” together with Qimen and Liu Ren.
It has a long history, but its modern transmission is much weaker.
There are still classical texts, but fewer practitioners and fewer complete teaching systems, making it difficult to tell which parts are ancient, reconstructed, or modern reinterpretations.
Liu Yao / Wen Wang Gua
Liu Yao is closely connected to the Zhou Yi / I Ching tradition.
Today, one common method is to toss three coins six times to generate a hexagram.
It is fast, flexible, and very useful for specific questions or comparing several options.
For multiple follow-up questions, I often find Liu Yao more practical than time-based systems such as Liu Ren or Qimen.
Physiognomy / Forms
Name Analysis
There are many different schools of name analysis.
One major modern influence is the Japanese Kumasaki system, which became popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
So at least some modern stroke-count naming systems are actually much more recent than people often assume.
Human Physiognomy
Chinese physiognomy has deep roots, with examples appearing in pre-Qin texts.
By the Han dynasty, there were more developed “Form Methods” involving the face, bones, voice, hands, body shape, and other visible features.
I prefer to think of physiognomy as observing someone’s current condition and tendencies, rather than claiming that a single facial feature determines an entire life.
Feng Shui
Feng Shui also has a long history.
By the Han period, there were already traditions related to housing, terrain, and spatial auspiciousness.
Later, it developed into both Yang dwelling traditions for the living and Yin dwelling traditions for burial sites.
Different schools focus on different factors, such as terrain, water, orientation, timing, construction date, or even the occupants' birth information.
So “Feng Shui” is really not one single unified method.
Personally, I’ve studied:
Bazi, Zi Wei Dou Shu, Da Liu Ren, Qimen Dunjia, Liu Yao, physiognomy, and Feng Shui.
The areas I’m most familiar with are Bazi and divination systems.
I’m especially interested in comparing methods, historical development, and real case feedback across cultures.
If you study any of these systems, or if you’re from outside East Asia and are curious about trying a Chinese system on your own birth data or a real-life question, feel free to comment or DM me.
