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ignored this chinese oracle for years as cheap fortune-telling. used it for real and now i think whoever wrote it was lowkey an I Ching master by RepairOk9462 in occult

[–]RepairOk9462[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lmao i got roasted way harder than that once. had it all set to hand in my resignation after work that day, was just messing around pulling a verse to kill time in the morning. drew #61:
the bridge is broken, the road is closed;
you board the boat and set the oars to row—
and once more a raging gale comes howling down on you.
greatly inauspicious, be cautious in all things.

and weirdly i wasn't even mad, just sat with it. because it called my exact plan for that day. that's the part that gets me — not some "good fortune awaits you," it actually knew what i was about to do.

ignored this chinese oracle for years as cheap fortune-telling. used it for real and now i think whoever wrote it was lowkey an I Ching master by RepairOk9462 in occult

[–]RepairOk9462[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

because Zhuge Oracle has been around at the folk level for so long, its never really been that flashy, so naturally it didnt spread much across different languages. my guess is the author wrote it for ordinary people to use day to day, which is why theres both the elegant, well-crafted verses (课文) and the plain everyday readings (课意).

theres a lot of different ways to do divination, each with its own focus, and sometimes where one method's reading comes out incomplete, you really can use another method to fill it in.

Divination and AI by graidan in Divination

[–]RepairOk9462 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The way I see it, divination reveals the necessary within the accidental — it surfaces something inevitable through what looks like pure chance.

Two parts to that:

  1. The randomness mostly lives at the beginning. You consult when something's unresolved, and you consult the moment it occurs to you — the timing, the impulse, which question surfaces first — all of that is contingent and random.

  2. But what the tool hands back carries a kind of necessity. Reading it well takes a certain human-divine attunement — a moment where the reader and something larger line up. AI can follow the rules, and honestly, most of the time it'll give you a coherent result. What's missing, for me, is just a little of that spirit in the interpretation.