Newsgroups: alt.tarot,alt.magick Path: shell.portal.com!svc.portal.com!sdd.hp.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!key From: key@netcom.com (peter li'ir key) Subject: i ching and tarot 2 Message-ID: Organization: springhaven Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 08:11:33 GMT Lines: 38 Sender: key@netcom13.netcom.com Xref: shell.portal.com alt.tarot:5962 alt.magick:71208 philemon vanderbeck writes: >I view with skepticism any attempt to link the symbology of the >Tarot with any other divinatory system (in this case, I Ching). >Tarot is of "western" origins, I Ching is an "eastern" system. >Tarot has 78 symbols; I Ching - 64. There are similarities between >symbols, but trying to fine an one-to-one correlation is a fruitless >exercise. why you view it with skepticism escapes me. it's an interesting exercise. i don't see why you can't mix east and west. crowley did it in quite a few places. tarot has 22 major, 16 court, 40 minor, 4 suits, and 10 cards per suit. and for all that it's mapped to the tree of life which has three veils, 10 sephiroth, 22 paths, 4 worlds, 10 qlpt, 3 triangles, and/or a kajillion other attributes. i ching and it's context (chinese mysticism/cosmology) has 64 hexagrams, 8 trigrams, 2 symbols for duality, the bagua, the tao, the 10 stems, the 12 branchs, five elements, the three children of yin and yang, the eight immortals, 10,000 creatures, 2 changing lines, and 2 unchanging lines. there are a few ways to look at what is being attempted here. 1a) mapping i ching to tarot b) mapping tarot to i ching 2a) mapping chinese symbolism to tarot b) mapping tarot to chinese symbolism i'm sure that if one applied oneself one could acheive on of the above mappings. i don't see 1a as being meaningful outside the context of 2. peter li'ir key key@netcom.com