What brings together a diagnostics business, a boxed game, the mysteries of ancient China and a redundant investment banker to deliver a revolutionary new method of reading the oracle? The answer is Hon-Sho.

After the shock of being made redundant from investment banking ten years ago, Dr Kevin Wilson needed time to reflect. He worked on a friend's farm for a while and walked in the Lake District and around Cyprus.

Picking up a book about ancient China at a market stall in Bath one day generated a passionate interest in all things ancient Chinese.

He says: "My passion grew rapidly into an obsession, but I still needed to earn a living. This brought me to a healthcare-testing business as an adviser.

As a non-scientist, I needed a quick learning curve to understand modern diagnostics and, in particular, how our DNA works."

Meanwhile, providing accommodation at his home in Bath to students from the Far East brought further exposure to its varied cultures and ancient mysteries.

Spending months in a number of prominent libraries pouring over old books about ancient China, he found that the Chinese not only discovered binary numbers way before we did in the West, but also that their way of thinking was driven by coincidence rather than cause and effect.

Says Kevin: "I discovered that the ancient Chinese consulted their ancestors rather than the stars to obtain guidance in their everyday lives.

"The ancient Shang Kings (1560-1027BC) regularly consulted the oracle before making decisions – from planting crops to marriage and waging wars.

"Decisions were frequently a matter of life and death. Inscriptions on animal bones recorded these decisions. I was eventually invited to hold some of these oracle bones at the British library – a truly revelatory experience.

"Then a series of coincidences transformed my life. I'd invented a boxed game simply using the natural numbering of letters in the alphabet to turn words into scores (where a=1, b=2 to z=26).

"Words could then be used in 'auctions', thereby 'making words count'.

"I quickly realised people count as well and began turning friends and relatives into numbers. This is exactly what DNA does, so I called this Digital-DNA.

"Everyone has a personal label – and this can be used to detect character traits and produce an oracle reading every day which is exclusive to each individual.

"By linking this digital label to ancient Chinese oracle reading, I had stumbled across a unique testing device which measures how a person's character reacts every day to the coincidences which regularly bombard us all.

"Hon-Sho is not a horoscope; it's a fusion between our Digital-DNA and ancient Chinese wisdom. It allows access to a 3,000-years-old font of pronouncements from China called The Book of Changes (Yi Jing).

"I've spent years re-writing them all in modern parlance.

"Every authentic oracle reading is individual to each person and delivers much more than a generalised statement – it is useful guidance for daily decision-making and provides an opportunity for introspection for those living hectic, time-pressured lives."

Kevin says Hon-Sho means 'your true character' in Japanese and that the book shows everyone how to reveal their Digital-DNA and then use it to access their unique oracle reading every day. Says Kevin: "Hon-Sho has been tested thousands of times and it retains the integrity of the ancient Chinese oracle method. It has already changed many people's lives"

Hon-Sho: A Modern Manual for Digital Divination by Dr Kevin Wilson, published by Connections Book Publishing in paperback priced at £12.99 and is available at Topping in Bath.