I Ching on Tarot
Dodging Invisible Rays » 59 - Dispersing
Here’s a post about a remarkable reading. Pauline Kilar resolved to learn a divination system, took up the I Ching, and found it inaccessible. (Not helped by starting at the very, very deep end, with yarrow stalks and Total I Ching.) So she asked Yi, “What would be the results if I tried to learn tarot?”
Yi said Decrease and Dispersing - 41 moving to 59. It’s a ‘downsizing’ move, a simplifying one, and a way of clearing confusion. The first line encourages her to ‘bring business to an end and go on swiftly’; the fifth promises increase by ten pairs of tortoises.
She says “Wow! That was the most clear, relevant response the I Ching had yet given me.” (And that’s even though, apparently, she’d only looked at the relating hexagram.) And she is diving very happily into tarot. Good old Yi 
June 15th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
That was the Vega Karcher she picked up, not the Total, but still a hard one for the beginner. As for yarrow stalks, she should have gotten Jane English’s: http://www.eheart.com/yarrow/index.html
After all, Jane links to Clarity.
But I wonder if Kilar really read the gua correctly… 59 states “Be like the king who imagines a temple full of images that unite people and connect them with greater forces.” Yi is, first and foremost, a collection of images (the words came later) imagined by a King and designed to unite people and connect them with greater forces. The tarot is merely a card game imagined into an oracle by a few crackpot Frenchmen and designed to sell their awful books - a racket that continues unabated into today.
-fyreflye
(a friend of tarot as well as the Yi)