Download the digital files to a text-driven 64-card I Ching oracle deck for a free companion tool to my book, I Ching, The Oracle (North Atlantic Books, 2023).
Here is a zip file of the 64 card images formatted with bleed margins per MakePlayingCards.com’s specs:
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ZIP FILE OF CARD IMAGES
Order From MPC
For your convenience, I’ve also uploaded the files onto makeplayingcards.com.
For those who aren’t able to personalize and customize their own version of the deck from the digital files provided, you can simply order the default version I’ve uploaded onto MakePlayingCards.com:
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The listing is set to the most budget-friendly option: (S30) Standard Smooth, MPC game card finish, shrink-wrapped, no box, no other packaging or extra features.
The listing is $23.20.
- $22.95 of it goes to makeplayingcards.com, not me.
- Only $0.25 of it goes to me.
Yes, that’s right. A quarter.
But if you are on a tight budget, you can download the printables file and crafty craft your own DIY copy of the deck.
If you want to print your deck on higher quality card stock with custom gilding or edging, with a box, tin, or velvet bag option, or even with your own custom-designed personalized card back, you will need to download the digital image files and manually upload and design your own copy of the deck via MPC.
Please note that the default listing and the digital files provided are set to standard tarot card size (70 mm x 121 mm, 2.75″ x 4.75″), with a 72-pixel bleed + safe area margin.
Apart from the six-line hexagram images, the card faces are text only.
This deck is intended to be a functional beginner’s tool for learning the I Ching, to be used in tandem with the book, I Ching, The Oracle.
Everyday Personal Divination Deck
As a personal, everyday I Ching divination deck, I have found that it works really well. Shuffle, present your question, pull a card, and right there on the card you get a few divinatory statements to reflect on.
Flashcards: An I Ching Study Tool
It also makes for a great I Ching study tool. On each card you get the hexagram image, English translation, pin yin for pronunciation of the Mandarin Chinese, and both the trigram and wu xing correspondences. You get both the oracle bone script and the modern day traditional script for each of the hexagram names. So the deck is operable as flash cards.
Great Starting Point for Total Beginners
If you are a total beginner to the I Ching and have felt overwhelmed, not quite sure where to start, then start here.
Print out your own 64-card I Ching oracle deck. Once you’ve developed a personal resonance with the Oracle, you can move on to a more in-depth study of the system with a textbook like I Ching, The Oracle.
You can also use this deck alongside your favorite and more aesthetically pleasing I Ching oracle deck. Keep this deck in sequential order from 1 to 64. Do your oracle reading with that other I Ching deck. Then find the corresponding hexagram card in this deck to supplement your divinatory reading with that other I Ching deck.
Pictured Above: Spirit Keeper’s Tarot, Revelation Edition (not an I Ching oracle deck)
Reference for Talisman Crafting
No matter your tradition, leveraging Chinese oracle bone script per the I Ching correspondences can really help to augment your talisman and sigil crafting game. This deck or the Chinese Oracle Bone Divination Cards that are also a free download are great resources for that.
Card Back Design
The art for the card back design (above right) and also the background of my book I Ching, The Oracle are referenced inside the book as Figure 1.1, “Studying 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 one of the few women in Chinese history to become a notable literati painter, defying the gender roles of her time, and one celebrated by the imperial court. Widowed young, she raised her son as a single mother by selling her paintings.
There’s so much I love about this particular work of art, and while I didn’t have much say over the cover design for my book, what I did manage to do was convince the publisher to go with Chen Shu’s painting as the background.
Look at the way bottom of the composition inside the house, through the window, and you’ll see a figure at a desk studying. From just outside the doorway, there is a winding stream (“crossing the great stream” reference from the I Ching). It also looks like a Path, as in The Way, The Tao. Mountains represent spiritual cultivation and wisdom, and the winding stream leads us up the mountain.
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