Oriental FortuneTeller
Ancient Wisdom, Modernised
FreeOffers In-App Purchases
1.3.2for iPhone, iPad and more
9.5
17 Ratings
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122.8 MB
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Oct 11, 2021
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12+
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About Oriental FortuneTeller
How to use this App:
For beginners, just input your birthday and birth time and then tap the "Crystal Ball" to get your natal Four-pillar chart. And then, tap the "Expand" button to unfold the hidden symbols.
Chart Reading: In the Expanded Chart View, you could tap the "Interpret" button to open the interpretation view and read the meaning for each of the symbols.
Progression and Transit: In the Expanded Chart View, if you would like to have some prediction reading, just tap "Now" or choose a decade to start with.
Progression Chart: In the Progression Chart View, you could choose a decade and then select one of the ten years to see your full progression and transit chart.
What is Progression: This term is the same as the one in western astrology(astrology for short). It is said that the concept came from Bible, "a day for a year"(Ezekiel 4:4-6.). There are several kinds of progressions, Primary progression, Solar Arc progression and Tertiary progression(Lunar Progression). The Primary progression applies the one day for a year principle, which means that the planets of the thirtieth day of your birth could be used to project what will happen at your 30.
In Four-pillar chart, we use a month for a decade ratio to project your progressions. In Chinese calendar, a year is divided into 24 parts, 12 atmospheres and 12 festivals. And 12 festivals are the starting points of 12 months. Plus, charts are divided into Yang persons and Yin persons. Yang chart progresses clock-wisely and Yin chart progresses counter clock-wisely. This factor depends on the gender and birth year.
So what is transit: Transit is simple. In astrology, you could choose a time and check the planets placements. Usually you will check a transit to natal chart comparison to predict what will happen or study what happened for a past transit.
In Four-pillar, we use natal chart, progression and transit all together to make predictions. But it is not the purpose of this app because I never did any studies or statistics. You need to learn from your past or from other people to help you make predictions, just like any other astrology app does.
About the Four-Pillar reading Practice:
The art was derived from ancient astrology which is very familiar be today's western astrology. In Tang Dynasty, the chart was composed of 3 pillars but sometimes the masters had to work along with an astrological chart. In Song Dynasty, a numerology and an I-Ching master Xu Zi Ping invented the four-pillar chart and dropped the astrological chart completely.
And this art had been thriving and being practised for nearly one thousand years in the ancient China. Some are still practising the Four-pillar or Bazi(eight character symbols) reading today. And Hong Kong is the place where the art is still thriving along with Fengshui.
About this App:
We saw that although there are many Four-pillar apps on the App Store. But we could not find one that is by any means translated into English or modernised. We started this project from scratch and we tried hard to look for a counter part of the symbols in English and in the western world. Later we translated or re-wroted some of the ancient interpretation text into English so that everyone can enjoy the art. And I employ as many astrology terms as possible so that you Google it if you are not familiar with the term.
OPEN DATA LICENSE for MaxMind WorldCities and Postal Code Databases
Copyright (c) 2008 MaxMind Inc. All Rights Reserved.
For beginners, just input your birthday and birth time and then tap the "Crystal Ball" to get your natal Four-pillar chart. And then, tap the "Expand" button to unfold the hidden symbols.
Chart Reading: In the Expanded Chart View, you could tap the "Interpret" button to open the interpretation view and read the meaning for each of the symbols.
Progression and Transit: In the Expanded Chart View, if you would like to have some prediction reading, just tap "Now" or choose a decade to start with.
Progression Chart: In the Progression Chart View, you could choose a decade and then select one of the ten years to see your full progression and transit chart.
What is Progression: This term is the same as the one in western astrology(astrology for short). It is said that the concept came from Bible, "a day for a year"(Ezekiel 4:4-6.). There are several kinds of progressions, Primary progression, Solar Arc progression and Tertiary progression(Lunar Progression). The Primary progression applies the one day for a year principle, which means that the planets of the thirtieth day of your birth could be used to project what will happen at your 30.
In Four-pillar chart, we use a month for a decade ratio to project your progressions. In Chinese calendar, a year is divided into 24 parts, 12 atmospheres and 12 festivals. And 12 festivals are the starting points of 12 months. Plus, charts are divided into Yang persons and Yin persons. Yang chart progresses clock-wisely and Yin chart progresses counter clock-wisely. This factor depends on the gender and birth year.
So what is transit: Transit is simple. In astrology, you could choose a time and check the planets placements. Usually you will check a transit to natal chart comparison to predict what will happen or study what happened for a past transit.
In Four-pillar, we use natal chart, progression and transit all together to make predictions. But it is not the purpose of this app because I never did any studies or statistics. You need to learn from your past or from other people to help you make predictions, just like any other astrology app does.
About the Four-Pillar reading Practice:
The art was derived from ancient astrology which is very familiar be today's western astrology. In Tang Dynasty, the chart was composed of 3 pillars but sometimes the masters had to work along with an astrological chart. In Song Dynasty, a numerology and an I-Ching master Xu Zi Ping invented the four-pillar chart and dropped the astrological chart completely.
And this art had been thriving and being practised for nearly one thousand years in the ancient China. Some are still practising the Four-pillar or Bazi(eight character symbols) reading today. And Hong Kong is the place where the art is still thriving along with Fengshui.
About this App:
We saw that although there are many Four-pillar apps on the App Store. But we could not find one that is by any means translated into English or modernised. We started this project from scratch and we tried hard to look for a counter part of the symbols in English and in the western world. Later we translated or re-wroted some of the ancient interpretation text into English so that everyone can enjoy the art. And I employ as many astrology terms as possible so that you Google it if you are not familiar with the term.
OPEN DATA LICENSE for MaxMind WorldCities and Postal Code Databases
Copyright (c) 2008 MaxMind Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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What's New in the Latest Version 1.3.2
Last updated on Oct 11, 2021
Old Versions
*Fixed a bug that user could not remove saved charts.
*Fixed a bug that the user charts temporarily disappear after user tries to delete a chart and is not logged in to iCloud.
*Minor UI improvemenets
*Fixed a bug that the user charts temporarily disappear after user tries to delete a chart and is not logged in to iCloud.
*Minor UI improvemenets
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Version History
1.3.2
Oct 11, 2021
*Fixed a bug that user could not remove saved charts.
*Fixed a bug that the user charts temporarily disappear after user tries to delete a chart and is not logged in to iCloud.
*Minor UI improvemenets
*Fixed a bug that the user charts temporarily disappear after user tries to delete a chart and is not logged in to iCloud.
*Minor UI improvemenets
1.3.1
Aug 23, 2020
*Google Admob SDK Update for compliance.
*Minor UI improvements.
*Minor UI improvements.
1.3.0
Jun 29, 2020
1. Traditional drawing art in lauch screen.
2. Supports split window mode on iPad(multitasking)
3. Supports Dark Mode with the new Dark Mode color scheme.
4. Fixed a couple of crush problems.
2. Supports split window mode on iPad(multitasking)
3. Supports Dark Mode with the new Dark Mode color scheme.
4. Fixed a couple of crush problems.
1.2.6
Sep 12, 2019
Attempts to fix a crash problem.
1.2.5
Aug 12, 2019
1. Tutorial improvement.
2. modified interpretation menu view wording.
2. modified interpretation menu view wording.
1.2.4
Jul 25, 2019
1. Tutorial improvement.
2. UI Improvement.
3. Fixed a clickable area problem.
4. Default Chart language changed to English.
2. UI Improvement.
3. Fixed a clickable area problem.
4. Default Chart language changed to English.
1.2.3
Jul 5, 2019
Added a quick tutorial.
1.2.2
Jun 28, 2019
Minor UI bug fix.
1.2.1
Jun 15, 2019
*Fixed cut interpretation
*Fixed editable knowledge view
*Fixed editable knowledge view
1.2
Jun 11, 2019
*Fixing the Home UI stretching and squeezing problem.
1.1
Jun 8, 2019
Oriental FortuneTeller FAQ
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Oriental FortuneTeller.
iPhone
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Oriental FortuneTeller supports English
Oriental FortuneTeller contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
Premium Package
$9.99
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