You open the app, optionally add birth details, ask a question and receive a structured reply that separates what you said, what the tradition suggests, what is uncertain and what you can do. You decide what to make of it.
1. Enter the app
Open WEAVEN in any modern browser on a phone or computer. Choose English, 简体中文 or 繁體中文 from the language control; the choice is remembered on that device. Two ways to begin:
- As a guest. Tap "Start a conversation". A guest session is created in your browser with no email or phone. Guests can ask five messages a day, keep one birth profile and use quick questions and the I Ching.
- With an account. From the Account screen, create an account with email and password, continue with Google, or continue with a phone number and SMS code. Your guest conversations and profile come with you when you create the account from the guest session. An account keeps history across devices and raises the daily limit to fifteen messages.
2. Add a birth profile (optional, but this is what makes it personal)
Without a profile, WEAVEN can still talk with you about the traditions and reflect on what you describe, but the answer stays general. With a profile it reads from a calculated chart. A profile holds:
| Field | Needed for | If missing |
|---|---|---|
| Date of birth (Gregorian or lunar, with leap-month flag) | Year, month and day pillars; Sun, Moon and planet signs; luck-cycle sequence | Required |
| Birth time: exact, a range, or unknown | Hour pillar, Ascendant, Midheaven, houses, precise luck-cycle start age | Withheld and labelled, never estimated |
| Birthplace with coordinates and time zone | Historical time zone and daylight-saving handling, true solar time for the hour pillar, house cusps | Clock time is used and the chart says so |
| Optional gender | Direction of the ten-year luck cycles only | Luck cycles are not shown |
| Current city, dominant hand, notes, preferred reply language | Context for timing and palm readings; how replies are worded | Sensible defaults |
Typing a city name offers matches and fills the country, time zone and coordinates. The chart is calculated on WEAVEN's servers when you save, shown with its method and confidence, and can be recalculated at any time. See the guide on preparing birth details for how to find a reliable time and what to do when you cannot.
3. Choose a question
The advisor screen offers ten starters: Read My Destiny, Career and Business, Wealth and Timing, Love and Marriage, Family and Children, Read My Palm, Traditional Face Reading, Compare Two People, Ask the I Ching and Monthly Forecast. Or type anything. A mode selector lets you ask for a quick answer, a complete reading, a timing reading, a monthly outlook, an I Ching cast, a daily reflection or a summary of the conversation.
Some modes need a profile and some are limited by plan. Guests have quick questions, the I Ching and one palm reading a day. Free accounts add complete readings, timing readings and face reading, with one image a day shared between palm and face. Compatibility between two profiles and monthly forecasts are built but tied to plans that cannot be purchased yet, so they are not available on free accounts today.
4. Read the reply
Replies stream in as they are written and follow a fixed discipline: what you actually described, why a reflection might fit, what is uncertain, what is within your control and one useful next step. In Chinese the reply uses traditional terminology. Under every reply you can regenerate, copy, share, save it to your readings, edit your question and resend, mark it helpful or not, and, where the browser supports it, listen to it.
If wording suggests you may be at risk, WEAVEN puts crisis resources first and does not continue a reading. It will not diagnose, will not predict a death date and will not promise an outcome; those rules are enforced on the server, not left to the model's mood.
5. Stay in control
- Conversations can be renamed, searched, archived and deleted.
- Memory is off until you switch it on, and every remembered item can be edited or removed.
- Photos are processed once and deleted unless you choose to keep them privately; you can delete kept images later.
- Export your account data as a file, or delete all of it, from the Account screen. Consent can be withdrawn there too.
The privacy and data page lists exactly what is stored and sent. The help page answers practical questions about sign-in, limits and languages.