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Four instruments, one practice
Each instrument is one symbolic tradition: a ritual cast sets you in one of its places — a hexagram, a rung of the planetary ladder, a station on the Tree, a spread of cards. Choose the tradition whose language speaks to your question.
Tarot is for seeing it. The I Ching is for getting through it. The other two tell you why it is happening and where you are standing while it does.
What are you carrying right now?
I Ching
Sixty-four hexagrams, each a single line-change away from six neighbours. Cast by three coins or by yarrow stalks, land on one hexagram, and see all six doors of your moment at once.
Hermeticism
Seven planetary heavens in the old Chaldean order, each either still binding or already refined. Every cast places you on the ladder between matter and the Ogdoad — and ascent and descent are both the great work.
Kabbalah
On the Tree of Life, not every station opens the same number of ways: Malkuth has three doors, Tiferet eight. Where you stand determines how you can move — and that is the teaching.
Western esoteric
Seventy-eight cards, drawn three at a time without replacement — past, present, future, each upright or reversed. The future position is read as tendency, never as forecast.
In every instrument the shape of the practice is the same — ask, cast with provably fair randomness, see where the cast set you, and reflect on a reading anchored to the exact facts of your cast. Only the symbols differ.