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The IRC folks at tilde.town have a bot that does tarot readings in the #town channel. I dig it, even if it's just pulling a random card. I have a special love of divination and wanted to contribute something.
The yarrow stalk method of the I Ching is a favorite of mine. I have my sticks over there in a little bag, in fact. There's something wonderfully meditative about the practice, and the fact that this method takes me about 30 minutes to complete means I don't waste my efforts with it frivolously.
In the past I've written about the method on gopher [1] but wanted to go further this time and actually build an app for it. I chose to do it as a shell script (which is hopefully portable).
I Ching yarrow stalk method on gopher.black
I Ching shell script on github
I knew I wanted to make it accessible to IRC bots which meant I need some method to run it without interaction. After adding that feature I realized I could also make it work on Gemini. This is my first Gemini cgi, and it was quite easy to do thanks to Jetforce.
I've written more thoughts on divination and its applicability to digital tools in a note at the end of that page. Enjoy!
Originally Published 2020-07-16 at:
gemini://tilde.team/~tomasino/journal/20200716-i-ching.gmi
If you have questions or thoughts to add please send me a link to your response.