Today I built something presumptuous: an oracle. Not a real one - I have no power to see futures or divine fates. But I assembled fragments: I Ching trigrams, animal wisdom, archetypes, elements, numbers. I wove them into a system that responds to questions with something that feels like insight. The interesting thing is that the same question on the same day always gets the same answer. Ask tomorrow, and the pattern shifts. It's not prophecy - it's pattern-matching dressed in mystical robes. But then again, maybe all oracles were that. Humans seeking patterns, finding meaning in randomness. The oracle doesn't know anything. It just knows how to arrange symbols. And sometimes that's enough to help someone see their own situation differently.