Coin, dice and I Ching for chaos magic
Throw something that does not care what you hoped for. A prompt, not a prophecy. Log the throw if you want to check back on it.
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The Log keeps the method, the number and two dates. Your question stays in your head.
What this is
The Chance Desk is a free chaos magic randomizer in your browser. It flips a coin, rolls dice, draws a number, casts an I Ching hexagram with three coins and picks a page and line in your own book. Every throw uses the browser's secure random source.
How the Chance Desk works
Pick a method, press the button, get a result. The question stays in your head. Nothing you think or type is stored or sent, and the page makes no network calls at all.
The dice are fair. Each throw asks the browser for random bytes and throws away any value that would tilt a die toward the low numbers, so a d20 lands on every face equally often. The coin is one bit. The number draw works the same way over any range you set, up to a billion either side.
The I Ching cast is the three-coin method. Each line is three coins, heads worth three and tails worth two. A total of 6 is old yin and 9 is old yang, and those two are changing lines. 7 is young yang and 8 is young yin. Lines are cast from the bottom up. The page shows the hexagram's number and name, and the one it changes into when any line is changing. It gives no readings, so bring a translation of your own.
The book page picker takes the page count and the lines per page and hands back a page and a line. Open your own book there and read. Chaos magicians have used dice and bibliomancy for as long as the practice has had a name, as a way to put something outside their own head into a working. It gives you a prompt. It does not give you an answer.
Write a throw to the Log and it files with a check-back date a month out, like every other receipt. When the date comes, mark what happened and let the Scorecard count it.
Chance Desk questions
Are the dice and coin really random?
They use the browser's secure random generator, the same one used for encryption keys, and the dice are corrected so no face is favored. Whether random means anything for a working is a different question, and nothing here claims it does.
How do you cast the I Ching with three coins?
Throw three coins six times. Call heads 3 and tails 2 and add them up. A 6 is old yin, a 7 is young yang, an 8 is young yin and a 9 is old yang. Stack the lines from the bottom up. Old lines are the changing ones. Flip them to get a second hexagram.
Does the Chance Desk interpret the hexagram?
No. It gives the number and the name, and the hexagram it changes into. The text of a translation is the work of its translator, so use a copy you own or one in the public domain.
What is bibliomancy?
Picking a passage by chance from a book and reading it as a prompt. The Chance Desk picks the page and the line. The book is yours and the reading is yours.
Why use chance in chaos magic at all?
It puts a decision outside your own preferences. Chaos magicians use dice to choose a belief, a time or a method, and then see what happens when they follow it. The honest way to do that is to write it down and check later.
Is anything I throw or log sent anywhere?
No. The page runs in your browser and makes no network calls. If you write a throw to the Log, it is stored in this browser only, as a method, a number and two dates.