🌍 Divination Around the World
Every culture found its own way to ask the future. We are collecting them all in one place.
Korea
Saju — Korean Four Pillars of Destiny
Korea's classical destiny reading: the year, month, day and hour of your birth become four pillars of cosmic energy.
Seoha Saju master of Seoul
Korea
Tojeong Bigyeol — Korea's New Year Oracle
The beloved almanac Koreans open every New Year: a verse of fortune drawn from your birth date.
Maegok Keeper of the New Year almanac
China
The Chinese Zodiac — Twelve Animals of the Years
Twelve animals take turns ruling the years, shaping personality and compatibility across East Asia.
Master Weilin Keeper of the twelve years
China
I Ching — The Chinese Book of Changes
Three thousand years of wisdom in sixty-four hexagrams, cast with coins or yarrow stalks.
Master Luwen Interpreter of the sixty-four hexagrams
China · Hong Kong
Feng Shui — The Art of Wind and Water
Arranging space so that fortune can flow: the Chinese art that shapes homes, offices and skylines.
Master Kai Architect of wind and water
China · Taiwan
Zi Wei Dou Shu — Purple Star Astrology
The "emperor of Chinese astrology": a twelve-palace chart ruled by the Purple Star.
Meixian Observer of the Purple Star
Mesopotamia · Greece
Western Astrology — The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac
Born under Babylonian skies and refined by the Greeks: the sun sign horoscope the whole world reads daily.
Selene Reader of the star wheel
Italy · France
Tarot — Seventy-Eight Doors to the Subconscious
A Renaissance card game that became the West's most beloved mirror for questions of love, work and fate.
Bianca Mistress of the seventy-eight doors
India
Jyotisha — Vedic Astrology of India
India's "science of light": sidereal astrology that still guides weddings, names and new ventures.
Pandit Aruna Voice of the nakshatras
Japan
Omikuji — Japan's Shrine Lottery of Fate
Draw a numbered stick, receive a slip of paper: Japan's beloved shrine fortune, from great blessing to great curse.
Haruka Shrine maiden of fortunes
Japan
Seimei Handan — Japanese Name Reading
Count the strokes of a name and you count its luck: Japan's enduring art of name divination.
Kenji-sensei Counter of strokes
Thailand
Thai Seven-Day Astrology
In Thailand, the day of the week you were born colours your whole life — literally.
Niran Guide of the seven days
India · Global
Palmistry — The Map in Your Hands
Heart line, head line, life line: the ancient art of reading character and fortune from the palm.
Madame Zara Reader of open hands
Korea · China
Physiognomy — Fortune Written on the Face
Gwansang, the East Asian art of face reading — and the inspiration for our upcoming AI face reader.
Master Doam The face reader
Türkiye
Turkish Coffee Reading — Fortunes in the Grounds
Drink the coffee, flip the cup, and let the grounds draw your future on porcelain.
Elif Reader of the cup
United Kingdom · Ireland
Tea Leaf Reading — Tasseography
The Victorian parlour art of finding omens in the leaves at the bottom of a teacup.
Moira Seer of the last sip
Scandinavia
Rune Casting — The Norse Alphabet of Fate
Twenty-four angular letters the Vikings carved into stone and bone — each one an oracle.
Astrid Voice of the rune stones
Greece
Numerology — The Pythagorean Science of Numbers
Reduce your birth date and name to a single digit, and meet your life path number.
Theo Tuner of numbers
Mexico · Guatemala
Mayan Astrology — The Sacred Tzolk'in Calendar
A 260-day sacred calendar where every birthday carries one of twenty day-signs.
Itzel Daykeeper of the Tzolk'in
Nigeria
Ifá — The Yoruba Oracle of 256 Paths
A UNESCO-recognised oracle of West Africa, spoken through palm nuts and sacred verse.
Baba Ade Speaker of the 256 paths