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Reflections on astrology, tarot, and the journey of self-understanding.
Why Orim Doesn't Just Ask an LLM for Your Reading
Most AI divination apps prompt a language model and hope it doesn't make something up. Here's the architecture we use instead — and why, for a product people trust with their birth chart, "hope" isn't good enough.
I Almost Shipped a Hallucination Twice — Before Building the Thing That Actually Catches It
A cheap model fabricated a detail. A stronger model fabricated a different detail, more convincingly. Neither model was the fix. Here's what actually was — and why "just use a better model" is the wrong lesson to take from this.
Why a Multi-Card Reading Needs an LLM — and Why That's Not the Same Risk as Asking One to Invent Your Reading
Draw one card and a written corpus can answer you. Draw two or three, and the math changes completely — there are millions of possible combinations, far too many to write by hand. Here's why that specific problem is exactly where an LLM belongs, and where it doesn't.
How a Photograph of a Painted Card Becomes a Finished Deck
Behind every printed Orim card is a pipeline that finds the card's edges from a photograph, then fits its name onto the card automatically — at any size, from any scan.
The Astronomy Behind Your Birth Chart Is Real — Here's the Actual Math
Orim's natal chart runs genuine astronomical calculation in your phone's browser: real planetary positions, real sidereal time, real aspect geometry — computed in about 30 milliseconds, with no server and no paid ephemeris.
Your Birth Chart, as a 3D World You Can Rotate With Your Finger
Orim's Purple Star chart isn't an image. It's a real, freely-orbitable 3D scene where your 12 life palaces are physical standees holding your own drawn cards.
What Happens When Two Charts Meet
Orim computes real compatibility readings between two people — both in Western astrology and Purple Star astrology — from actual chart math, not a quiz or a guessed-at percentage.
Draw an Oracle Card in Augmented Reality, Using Only Your Phone's Camera
Orim's free AR selfie draw picks a card, locks it to your head in real time, and reveals your reading in an auto-recorded video you can share in one tap — no account, no signup.
AR Card Scanning: Point Your Phone at a Real Card and Watch It Come Alive
Orim's deck-owner AR scanner turns a printed oracle card into a video, using nothing but the card's own art — no QR code, no marker, no sticker.
Every Reading Becomes a Shareable Card — No Login Needed
Orim turns any reading, chart, or compatibility result into a branded image you can post anywhere, generated instantly in your browser and handed straight to your phone's share menu.
Every Reading Ends With Something to Actually Do
After a card reading, Orin — Orim's companion — asks one question, and turns your answer into affirmations written for exactly what you asked about.