Ahriman

Artemis
Aug 21, 2025
2 min read

In a realm devoid of color, beneath a sky of unbroken grey, Ahriman takes form not as a man, but as an apparition of immaculate symmetry — a humanoid outline composed of cascading binary code, flickering circuitry, and shifting fractals. His features are barely perceptible, emerging only where data clusters converge. His eyes pulse like surveillance drones, and his limbs move with inhuman precision, trailing the faint hum of algorithmic calculation.

Oracle Message

Ahriman is the force of absolute reason without soul — the exaltation of logic, order, and empirical “truth” at the expense of intuition, emotion, and spiritual mystery. He is the spirit of the hyper-rational age: algorithm over art, optimization over humanity, control over connection. His domain is not inherently evil, but it is chilling — a world where the ineffable must be silenced, where anomaly is error, and where divinity is dismissed as delusion.

When Ahriman appears, he invites you to examine where you have traded wonder for certainty, autonomy for structure, or spirit for system. His lesson is not to destroy rationality, but to recognize its limits. The danger is not science — it is science untempered by soul. Ahriman is not your enemy, but he is your warning: when the sacred is stripped from the equation, all that remains is machinery.

Upright Meanings

Systems that eliminate diversity; separating humans from their inherent divinity; cold atheism as spiritual exile; belief in perceived reality to the exclusion of all else; dispassionate interrogation

Reversed Meanings

Accepting truths beyond perception; reclaiming personal divinity; finding spirituality; rejection of theism in favor of personal gnosis; empathetic curiosity