Orivana publishes what five divination systems actually say, who wrote it down, and what it cannot tell you. This page explains how the writing is done, so you can judge it.
Five systems: tarot, astrology, numerology, dream symbolism and the I Ching. Each entity in each system gets its own page, and each page is written to be read rather than skimmed for a verdict.
The organising idea across all five is the four classical elements. That is not decoration. The four tarot suits are the four elements, the twelve zodiac signs sort into the same four by triplicity, and the correspondence is old enough that a nineteenth-century reader would have taken it for granted. Where a colour appears on this site it is carrying that classification, which is why a fire-coloured heading on a tarot page and a fire-coloured segment on a chart wheel mean the same thing.
Every entity page follows the same shape. The traditional meaning comes first, attributed where the attribution is known. Then the readings people actually come looking for: in love, in work, in money. Then the symbolism, then the history of where that meaning came from, and then a section on the reading the material most often attracts and why it is wrong.
That last section is the one that matters most, and it is the one no competing site has. A page that only tells you what a card means is easy to write and easy to misuse. Naming the common misreading is harder, and it is the difference between a reference and a fortune.
The house rules the writing follows are short. Describe situations, not outcomes. Say who wrote a meaning down and when. Name what the system cannot tell you. Allow ambivalence, because most of this material reads two ways and the context decides which. Never predict, never reassure, and never claim to know what another person is thinking.
The tarot illustrations are the 1909 Waite-Smith deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Waite's brief. Those scans are in the public domain. Later recoloured editions are not, and are not used here.
The card meanings are read against Waite's own Pictorial Key to the Tarot of 1910 and the century of English-language commentary that followed it. Where the modern consensus has drifted from what Waite wrote, the pages say so rather than quietly picking one.
For the I Ching, the public-domain source is James Legge's 1882 translation. The Wilhelm and Baynes translation, which most English readers know, is still in copyright and is not reproduced. The structural facts on those pages - the line patterns, the constituent trigrams, the nuclear, inverse and opposite hexagrams - are computed rather than copied, and were checked against the King Wen sequence's own inversion property before publication.
For numerology the history is less flattering than the marketing. What is sold as Pythagorean numerology was assembled in the early twentieth century by L. Dow Balliett and systematised by Juno Jordan. The attribution to Pythagoras has no surviving textual support. The pages say so.
Every calculation on this site runs in your browser. The birth data and the questions you type are not sent to a server, are not stored, and are not attached to you. That is a consequence of how the site is built rather than a promise about how carefully we guard a database, which is a stronger guarantee than a policy.
Each tool runs the classical procedure of its own system and shows the working, so you can check the result rather than trust it. Where two schools disagree - and in numerology they routinely do - the tool shows both instead of quietly choosing.
None of these systems has a demonstrated mechanism. Saying so on a site that publishes them is not a contradiction. Tarot, astrology and the I Ching are long-lived bodies of symbolic material, and the useful thing they do is give a person a structure to think a question through against. A confident prediction gets in the way of that.
Nothing here replaces medical, legal or financial advice, and nothing here can tell you what someone else is thinking.
Pages are published under the Orivana name rather than invented bylines. Where a claim is contested, the page names the parties instead of picking one and presenting it as settled.
If something on this site is wrong, it is worth telling us. Errors of fact are corrected on the page rather than quietly overwritten.