About Arcana Oracle
Last updated 2026-09-05
Arcana Oracle is an independent tarot experience maintained by Long Lee, in English, Chinese and Japanese. Its current focus is a guided, symbolic conversation with AI, one question at a time.
Where the texts come from
Every card meaning, hexagram commentary, stick interpretation, sign profile and number profile on this site was written for it. The I Ching judgments and images follow the classical Wilhelm and Legge readings, rewritten in modern language. The Guanyin stick poems are reproduced in the original Chinese alongside a working translation. Nothing is scraped.
How the AI readings are made
When you ask for an AI reading, the symbols you actually drew — with their localized names and our own keyword lists — are sent to a language model together with your question. The model is instructed to read those specific symbols, in your language, without inventing new ones. It is a writing tool applied to a fixed draw, not an oracle in its own right.
Card images
The 78 card images are the Rider-Waite-Smith deck published by William Rider & Son in 1909, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. The deck is in the public domain and the scans come from Wikimedia Commons.
Contact
For refunds, corrections or anything else, reach us on the community Discord.