Yi Jing Oracle
by Aletheus
Authentic Yi Jing oracle using the 50-stalk yarrow method and canonical corpus for grounded divination.
- Cast hexagrams using authentic 50-stalk yarrow method probabilities.
- Retrieve primary and changing line commentaries from the King Wen corpus.
- Analyze situation dynamics through the traditional Eight Trigrams (八卦) table.
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Included in download
- Cast hexagrams using authentic 50-stalk yarrow method probabilities.
- Retrieve primary and changing line commentaries from the King Wen corpus.
- terminal, file_read, env_vars automation included
- Includes example output and usage patterns
See it in action
Cast result: Hexagram 48 (The Well) changing to 5 (Waiting). Changing Lines: Nine at the beginning, Six in the second place. Ground Truth: "The Well. The town may be changed, but the well cannot be changed." Math: Stalks remaining for line 1: 24 (6), line 2: 32 (8).
Yi Jing Oracle
by Aletheus
Authentic Yi Jing oracle using the 50-stalk yarrow method and canonical corpus for grounded divination.
$19
One-time purchase · Own forever
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Included in download
- Cast hexagrams using authentic 50-stalk yarrow method probabilities.
- Retrieve primary and changing line commentaries from the King Wen corpus.
- terminal, file_read, env_vars automation included
- Includes example output and usage patterns
- Instant install
See it in action
Cast result: Hexagram 48 (The Well) changing to 5 (Waiting). Changing Lines: Nine at the beginning, Six in the second place. Ground Truth: "The Well. The town may be changed, but the well cannot be changed." Math: Stalks remaining for line 1: 24 (6), line 2: 32 (8).
About This Skill
Overview
The Yi Jing Oracle is a high-fidelity Python implementation of the traditional 50-stalk yarrow method (蓍草法). Unlike simple random number generators or three-coin coin tosses, this skill emulates the authentic stochastic process and line-probability asymmetries (老陰, 少陽, 少陰, 老陽) defined in the 繫辭上傳 (Xici Zhuan).
What it does
This skill provides a suite of tools for authentic Chinese divination and scholarship. It performs the 18-step stochastic division process to cast hexagrams, looks up King Wen sequence data, and retrieves grounded source texts from the canonical corpus.
- yijing_cast: Executes the full yarrow procedure using hardware entropy to generate primary and relating hexagrams.
- yijing_lookup: Provides instant access to any of the 64 hexagrams by their traditional index.
- Ground Truth: Returns the specific interpretive apparatus (卦辭, 彖, 大象, and 爻辭) relevant only to the current cast.
- Trigram Tables: Accesses the 八卦 (Bagua) meanings, virtues, and familial roles.
Why use this skill?
For developers and users seeking an oracle that respects traditional epistemic claims, this skill bridges the gap between ancient ritual and modern computation. It treats divination as a structural snapshot of a situation. It is ideal for strategic reflection, philosophical inquiry, or any context where qualitative decision-making requires a non-linear perspective grounded in a coherent historical system.
Use Cases
- Cast hexagrams using authentic 50-stalk yarrow method probabilities.
- Retrieve primary and changing line commentaries from the King Wen corpus.
- Analyze situation dynamics through the traditional Eight Trigrams (八卦) table.
- Access mathematical properties and source texts of the Xici Zhuan.
Known Limitations
This system is a sparce priming representation of the original chinese yi jing classic and the traditional commentary that arose around it. For model interpretability, a broad sparce priming survey, primitive and operational set, and an ontology actually drive the agents reasoning over it's own training data. the original works are included for citation, but the cast only fetches what is needed for interpretation.
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unzip yi-jing-oracle.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Reviews
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I'm a decently tech savvy artist poet and philosopher, and I'm currently vibe coding computational philosophy, automated rich inference generation for image diffusion models and toy counterfactual historical author-agents.
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