Lucky Fortune Dice (with ads)

Lucky Fortune Dice is the first app to use virtual RPG (role playing game) dice to tell fortunes.

• No in app purchase requests
• Fun fortunes
• Automatically saves fortunes for later viewing
• Roll the dice and see your fortune!

How it works:
1. Roll a die to get a line.
2. Six lines make a hexagram.
3. A hexagram is a kind of fortune from the I Ching Book of Changes.
4. If a line is flashing, it will change into the opposite kind of line.
5. The result is a second hexagram.

“Where do the fortunes come from?”
The fortunes come from the I Ching Book of Changes, a three-thousand-year-old system of divination from China. The standard practice is to toss three coins to determine each line of yin or yang. The yin line has a break in it (⚋). The yang line is unbroken (⚊). There is also a chance for the line to be a “changing” line, meaning that it is changing from yin into yang or from yang into yin. Since there are eight possible results from tossing three coins, you can use a single eight-sided die instead of three coins to get the same result, and that’s what make Lucky Fortune Dice stand apart from other I Ching apps.

“Are these fortunes based on a translation of the original Chinese text of the I Ching?”
I have studied the translation by Richard Wilhelm as well as other translations and have come up with my own interpretation based on my own intuitive understanding of what the text could mean to a modern person.

“The Wilhelm translation seems to be more serious than these fortunes. Is this supposed to be a joke?”
My approach is an homage to the Zen tradition of using humor to approach enlightenment. For example, the humor of Zen master Zhao Zhou is evident in this story about him:
“Zhao Zhou entered the Dharma hall and addressed the monks, saying, ‘When a true person speaks a heresy, all heresies become true. When a heretic speaks a truth, all truth becomes heresy.’”

“Can this app predict the future?”
I knew you would ask that question, but that is the only accurate prediction that I have ever made. Your questions about the future often boil down to something like this question: "What is it in the present that makes me wish for something better in the future?" With any luck, the fortune you get will give you a clue as to why you are not able to be present.

“Can I use these fortunes as legal advice, religious teaching, personal advice, or help in my relationships?”
No, you should not hope to find advice of any kind here. Call a lawyer if you want legal advice. Many religious teachings are available for nothing everywhere, but not here. Your relationships are not my problem. These fortunes are for entertainment purposes only.

“What if I don't get the meaning of the fortune I got?”
It can take a minute to get it. If you still don't get it, you can look up another interpretation in a search engine by hexagram and line number.

“The fortune I got really made me see things differently or think in a different way! How did you do that?”
I didn't do anything. You did it. Carl Jung said that synchronicity makes random events meaningful. There is no cause-and-effect relationship between your question and the fortune you got, and yet it turned out to mean something to you. This is the value of using a fortune to ask a question that may eventually lead you to your own truth. If you like, may prefer to view the fortune as a kind of synchronicity art form, and the meaning of any art is your own experience of that art.

Carl Jung says:
"... synchronicity takes the coincidence of events in space and time as meaning something more than mere chance, namely, a peculiar interdependence of objective events among themselves as well as with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers... In the I Ching, the only criterion of the validity of synchronicity is the observer's opinion that the text of the hexagram amounts to a true rendering of his psychic condition."