I Ching Oracle Cards (Free Printables) – benebell wen

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Obtain the digital information to a text-driven 64-card I Ching oracle deck for a free companion device to my e-book, I Ching, The Oracle (North Atlantic Books, 2023).

This can be a serviceable on a regular basis private divination deck that additionally doubles as a simple, accessible introduction to the I Ching.

It makes for an amazing research device as flash playing cards and for studying the Ba Gua trigram and Wu Xing alchemical part correspondences.

In your comfort, I’ve additionally uploaded the information onto makeplayingcards.com. Exterior hyperlink and information beneath.

The itemizing is $23.20.

$22.95 of it goes to makeplayingcards.com, not me.
Solely $0.25 of it goes to me.

Sure, that’s proper. 1 / 4.

However if you’re on a decent funds, you may obtain the printables file and artful craft your personal DIY copy of the deck.

Aside from the six-line hexagram photos, the cardboard faces are textual content solely. Nobody is making an attempt to wow you with artistry right here. =P

This deck is meant to be a purposeful newbie’s device for studying the I Ching, for use in tandem with the e-book, I Ching, The Oracle.

On a regular basis Private Divination Deck

As a private, on a regular basis I Ching divination deck, I’ve discovered that it really works very well. Shuffle, current your query, pull a card, and proper there on the cardboard you get just a few divinatory statements to mirror on.

Flashcards: An I Ching Research Software

It additionally makes for an amazing I Ching research device. On every card you get the hexagram picture, English translation, pin yin for pronunciation of the Mandarin Chinese language, and each the trigram and wu xing correspondences. You get each the oracle bone script and the fashionable day conventional script for every of the hexagram names. So the deck is operable as flash playing cards.

Nice Beginning Level for Complete Learners

In case you are a complete newbie to the I Ching and have felt overwhelmed, not fairly positive the place to start out, then begin right here.

Print out your personal 64-card I Ching oracle deck. When you’ve developed a private resonance with the Oracle, you may transfer on to a extra in-depth research of the system with a textbook like I Ching, The Oracle.

You can even use this deck alongside your favourite and extra aesthetically pleasing I Ching oracle deck. Hold this deck in sequential order from 1 to 64. Do your oracle studying with that different I Ching deck. Then discover the corresponding hexagram card on this deck to complement your divinatory studying with that different I Ching deck.

Pictured Above: Spirit Keeper’s Tarot, Revelation Version (not an I Ching oracle deck)

Reference for Talisman Crafting

Irrespective of your custom, leveraging Chinese language oracle bone script per the I Ching correspondences can actually assist to enhance your talisman and sigil crafting recreation. This deck or the Chinese Oracle Bone Divination Cards that are also a free download are nice assets for that.

The Downloads

Here’s a zip file of the 64 card photos formatted with bleed margins per MakePlayingCards.com’s specs:

Click on Beneath Hyperlink to Obtain

ZIP FILE OF CARD IMAGES

Order From MPC

For many who aren’t capable of personalize and customise their very own model of the deck from the digital information offered, you may merely order the default model I’ve uploaded onto MakePlayingCards.com:

EXTERNAL LINK TO MPC ORDER PAGE

The itemizing is ready to essentially the most budget-friendly possibility: (S30) Commonplace Easy, MPC recreation card end, shrink-wrapped, no field, no different packaging or additional options.

If you wish to print your deck on larger high quality card inventory with {custom} gilding or edging, with a field, tin, or velvet bag possibility, and even with your personal custom-designed customized card again, you have to to obtain the digital picture information and manually upload and design your own copy of the deck via MPC.

Please observe that the default itemizing and the digital information offered are set to plain tarot card dimension (70 mm x 121 mm, 2.75″ x 4.75″), with a 72-pixel bleed + secure space margin.

Card Again Design

The artwork for the cardboard again design (above proper) and in addition the background of my e-book I Ching, The Oracle are referenced contained in the e-book as Determine 1.1, “Finding out the I Ching by a Window” 清陳書山窗讀易圖 (1660 – 1735) by the Qing dynasty painter Chen Shu 陳書. She is without doubt one of the few girls in Chinese language historical past to turn out to be a notable literati painter, defying the gender roles of her time, and one celebrated by the imperial courtroom. Widowed younger, she raised her son as a single mom by promoting her work.

There’s a lot I like about this explicit murals, and whereas I didn’t have a lot say over the duvet design for my e-book, what I did handle to do was persuade the writer to go along with Chen Shu’s portray because the background.

Take a look at the way in which backside of the composition inside the home, by the window, and also you’ll see a determine at a desk learning. From simply exterior the doorway, there’s a winding stream (“crossing the nice stream” reference from the I Ching). It additionally seems like a Path, as in The Approach, The Tao. Mountains characterize religious cultivation and knowledge, and the winding stream leads us up the mountain.

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