The Oracle draws from many living and historical traditions. Each one deserves to be named. We list what we use, where we learned it from, and where we know our surface is thin. This is an open door — if you belong to a tradition named here and see something to correct, we want the correction.
Western astrology
Hellenistic Mediterranean → Europe
Hellenistic roots (Ptolemy), medieval Arabic transmission, European Renaissance codification (Lilly), modern esoteric revival (Alan Leo, Sepharial). We use the tropical zodiac by default with Placidus houses.
Sidereal zodiac, nakshatras, Vimshottari dasha. Jyotish is a living priestly tradition with its own teachers; our implementation is surface-level — nakshatra + current mahadasha + antardasha. For deep work, consult a trained astrologer.
Sources ingested
Lahiri ayanamsa values (IAU standard) (2000) · linear approximation around J2000
Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) cosmology
Nile Valley
Source of the 36 decans, Sopdet/Sirius cycles, weighing of the heart. We name the neteru whose correspondences shape our reading of each decan.
Sources ingested
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (1895) · sacred-texts.com
The Gods of the Egyptians (1904) · archive.org
Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World (1907) · archive.org
Yoruba / Ifá
West Africa (Yorubaland → diaspora)
Ifá is a priestly office, not a consumer product. Our Ifá surface is educational; every reading surfaces the disclaimer that a Babalawo's consultation is a fundamentally different thing. The 16 principal Odu and their teachings here are drawn from PD ethnography, not oral initiate tradition.
Sources ingested
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa (1894) · sacred-texts.com
Akan / Ashanti
West Africa (Ghana region)
Adinkra symbols shipped on the Innaverse Oracle deck — Sankofa, Gye Nyame, Nyansapo, and others — carry proverb-wisdom from the Akan tradition.
Sources ingested
Religion and Art in Ashanti (Rattray) (1927) · archive.org
The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast (Ellis) (1887) · archive.org
Chinese metaphysics (BaZi, five elements)
China
Four Pillars of Destiny via sexagenary cycle. Our implementation makes known approximations at solar-term boundaries — described in the methodology page. The symbolic system is an expression of a long living tradition with many schools.
Sources ingested
I Ching (Legge trans.) (1882) · sacred-texts.com
Mayan Tzolk'in
Mesoamerica
260-day sacred calendar. We use the standard GMT correlation (584283). Mayan day-keeping continues in living Maya communities; academic reconstructions are one lens among several.
Norse / Germanic
Northern Europe
Elder Futhark runes, three ætts. The symmetric runes (Hagalaz, Isa, Jera, Eihwaz, Gebo, Sowilo, Ingwaz, Dagaz) cannot reverse in our reading system — an honest decision grounded in their historical appearance.
Sources ingested
The Poetic Edda (Bellows trans., includes Hávamál) (1923) · sacred-texts.com
Arabic geomancy (Ilm al-Raml) → European transmission
Arabian peninsula → al-Andalus → Europe
Sixteen figures, the Judge answering from the witnesses. We use the European figure names (familiar from Agrippa 1531) and store the Arabic names alongside so the transmission is visible.
Sources ingested
Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1531) · archive.org / public domain
Tarot (Rider-Waite-Smith)
Late Victorian England
The Innaverse Tarot keeps the RWS structure (22 majors, 56 minors across 4 suits × 14 ranks) and re-maps archetypes to ancestral figures. The RWS deck entered US public domain in 2022.
Sources ingested
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (A.E. Waite) (1910) · sacred-texts.com
Hindu / Vedantic tantric
India
The seven-chakra model as we use it is simplified from classical tantric texts. There are other traditional chakra counts (6, 9, 12); we chose 7 for familiarity. The chakra check-in prompts use the user's own lived language, not technical Sanskrit.
Numerology (Pythagorean + Chaldean)
Mediterranean antiquity
Pythagorean letter-value system codified in 20th-century Balliett; Chaldean system claims older roots. We offer both as a user toggle.
Sources ingested
The Philosophy of Numbers (Balliett) (1908) · archive.org
Human Design
Modern (Ra Uru Hu, 1987)
We compute type, authority, and profile using the publicly-known algorithm (64 gates at 5.625° arcs mapped via the HD Mandala; Design chart at 88° solar arc prior). We do NOT ship the per-gate, per-channel, or incarnation-cross content — those are copyrighted by Jovian Archive. For depth, consult a trained Human Design analyst.