Fortune

What is it

Three dice: odd counts as yang, even as yin, six rolls, and the hexagram grows from the bottom up. That is the old three-coin method with dice in place of coins — the odds are identical. You get the hexagram, its moving lines and the hexagram it changes into, and then the one line you are meant to read, picked by Zhu Xi’s rules: no moving lines means the judgement, one moving line means that line, and there is a rule for every other case. The text is the Book of Changes as it stands on Wikisource, unaltered. Signed in, a model puts that line into plain words and says how it lines up with whatever you asked. The other way in is a photo of an open palm: the eight mounts of the hand already correspond to the eight trigrams, so the lines give you a hexagram — the photo is sent to the server, read once, and not kept.

Highlights

• Three dice, six rolls: the hexagram, its moving lines and what it changes into — the same odds as the coin method
• Which line to read is picked by Zhu Xi’s rules; the text comes from the Book of Changes on Wikisource, unaltered
• Palm reading: photograph an open hand, and the eight mounts give you a hexagram
• Casting and quoting never touch a model; without signing in you still get the hexagram and the text