What Is the Agreement Score? When Five Traditions Read the Same Person

There are countless fortune services in the world, but most deal in a single tradition. Tarot gives a tarot answer, saju gives a saju answer, and that is that. The trouble is that a single tradition gives you no way to check whether its reading holds up. The listener is left simply to believe it or not.

CrossFates takes one step further. Five traditions in all (saju, the I Ching, and Ziwei Dousu from the East, tarot and astrology from the West) each read the same person and the same day independently. We then calculate how closely those five readings point the same way and present it as a single number: the agreement score.

What matters here is that the five traditions reach their conclusions separately, without copying one another. Saju weighs the balance of the five elements in its own way, tarot deals its cards in its own way, and astrology calculates planetary positions. Each answers the same question through a completely different language and procedure.

If five traditions of different origins happen to point the same way, that is far more interesting than any one tradition saying so on its own. The agreement score simply puts a number on that degree of arriving at the same place by different roads.

The agreement score is not there merely to boast a high number. The more valuable information often lies in where the traditions converge and where they diverge. The points where all five speak with one voice can be read as the clearest signals of the day.

The points of disagreement matter in their own right too. They may mean that the flow has not yet settled in one direction, or that this is a subtle moment that reads differently depending on the angle. CrossFates shows you both the agreements and the divergences, so you can build a more three-dimensional picture of the day.

One person’s opinion carries that person’s limits along with it. But when several voices from entirely different backgrounds reach the same conclusion, we tend to give that conclusion a second thought. The appeal of the agreement score lies in exactly this weight of varied perspectives meeting in one place.

Of course, this consensus is not proof that the future is fixed. All five traditions are languages of symbol and interpretation, not scientific prediction. Even so, watching how five thousand-year-old frameworks of thought meet and part over the story of your day is, in itself, an interesting mirror for reflecting on yourself.

The agreement score is the feature CrossFates is fondest of, but it is, above all, for fun and self-reflection. A high score guarantees nothing, and a low score does not mean misfortune. It is simply a snapshot of how much the five traditions are singing the same song today.

Decisions that carry real weight (health, money, relationships, career) should rest on your own careful judgment and professional advice, not on an agreement score. CrossFates hopes to be a pleasant mirror at your side as you sort out your thoughts.