The I-Ching (易經, Yìjīng) is also known as the Book of Changes: an ancient system of 64 hexagrams that offers insight into what is happening in your life right now. The original texts carry enormous depth. But to be honest, I often found that it turned into a kind of puzzle. Old words, symbolism, translations of translations… so that you are mostly busy working out what is meant. And sometimes I felt something different from what was written. As if the essence had faded somewhere along the way.
This deck of cards grew out of that feeling.
This is not an attempt to improve the I-Ching, but to make its core easier to feel. I have distilled the texts to what is, for me, their essence, and translated each hexagram into a fluid art painting, intuitive and without fixed form, so that it is not only something you read, but something you can experience directly. The deck comes with a book that explores each card in more depth, with a poem, an explanation, and a Qigong exercise or meditation, so that the insight is not only understood, but also carries through into how you move, feel and see.
The intention is simple:
that you don’t have to search for the meaning,
but recognise it, and feel it touch you directly.