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About the oracle
An I Ching oracle, read with care
What the I Ching is
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the oldest books in the world: a Chinese classic that describes reality as a continuous process of transformation. Its sixty-four hexagrams are images of situations — each one a figure of six lines, built from two trigrams. The book is not a catalogue of destinies but a mirror for reflection: it describes the shape of a moment and the attitude that suits it.
The three-coin method
Each line is obtained by tossing three coins. Heads counts 3, tails counts 2. The sum gives the line: 6 is old yin (a moving line), 7 young yang, 8 young yin, 9 old yang (a moving line). The hexagram is built from the bottom line upward. Moving lines change into their opposite and produce a second, transformed hexagram — the direction in which the situation is tending.
Jung and the Marseille tarot
Jung's interest in the tarot is documented: he worked with the Ancien Tarot de Marseille (the Grimaud deck) and read the twenty-two Major Arcana as "archetypes of transformation" — images of the stations the psyche passes through. In the 1950s he asked his student Hanni Binder to teach him the cards, and her notes preserve his own fragmentary keywords, such as, on Death: "the ego must give way — it is the Self that must take its place."
How the Jungian reading works here
For each of the twenty-two Majors the app stores two distinct layers: Jung's own recorded keywords, which are fragmentary, and the fuller elaboration of the Jungian school — shadow, anima and animus, persona, inflation, enantiodromia, the transcendent function, individuation, the Self and the ego. Only the three drawn cards, your question and those entries are passed to the AI, which weaves them into one psychological reflection. Nothing here predicts your future, and nothing here is a diagnosis: the cards are material to think with. Only the twenty-two Majors are used, in original stylised artwork — no scans of any published deck — and never reversed, as in Jung's own notes.
Genuine randomness
Oraculum tosses the coins with your browser's cryptographic random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues), never with a predictable pseudo-random function. The classical probabilities — 1/8, 3/8, 3/8, 1/8 — emerge naturally from simulating three coins, exactly as with real ones.
How the AI interpretation works
The hexagram is identified deterministically from a static table of all sixty-four figures, so numbers, names and characters are never invented. Only afterwards is the reading passed to the AI, together with your question, the moving lines and the transformed hexagram, with instructions to comment in the spirit of the tradition. The AI offers perspective, not predictions: it will not promise you a fixed future.
Your readings
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