Dice Divination
Click on the dice to go the Oracle
History
Handmade "Vegan" Dice ( contains no animal parts) Cley or Wood
21th Century
People have been playing dice games for a very long time. The very first dice were just sheep knucklebones, and you won if it landed on the right one of the four flat sides. People have been throwing knucklebones since at least 5000 BC, in ancient Sumer.
Earliest six-sided dice
Then somebody cut off the rounded ends of knucklebones to make six-sided dice instead of four-sided ones, and then started to make dice out of wood or ivory. The earliest actual dice anyone has found come from Iraq and Iran, both from about 3000 BC.
Later dice were made of bone or ivory (or wood or stone, but usually of bone), and they looked just like our dice today, with different numbers of spots on each side. Like ours, even the oldest dice almost always have the one opposite the six, the three opposite the four, and the two opposite the five. This is true all over Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The reason they have spots instead of written numbers is that people have been using dice since long before they invented a way to write numbers. Because they were small and not very valuable, archaeologists often find ancient dice.
Early dice from ancient Egypt
ca. 2000 BC
Roman Dice
Games in ancient China
In ancient China, people also used square dice. They threw the dice into pottery bowls to prevent cheating.
They also had a method where they threw small bundles of sticks, like our Pick-Up Sticks, and your score depended on how the sticks landed and how they were crossing each other.
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Chinese dice (Song Dynasty)
ca. 1000-1200 AD
Bones, Shells, Sticks, Staves & Stones
Ogham Sticks - Sorted Wood
African Cowrie Shell Divination
I Ching Oracle
Indian Geomancy Staves
Druid Sticks
Runes set (3 different "stones") - Resin
Modern Dice - Plastic
Fortunetellers also had a method where they threw small bundles of sticks, and the oracle depended on how the sticks landed and how they were crossing each other or where they landed on a diagram.
In ancient India, people were certainly using cubic dice by the Harappan period, about 2000 BC. Sometimes people also used stick dice, like flattened toothpicks, which only have four sides. And sometimes they threw groups of cowrie shells, and your score depended on how many shells landed with their teeth facing up.
The Gauls & Romans were known for their fortunetelling by throwing six sided dice, as well as gambling with them.
Modern fortunetellers use Runes, Ogham or Druid Sticks as an Oracle .
Native Americans also used stick dice. Among Native Americans, women played dice games more than men did. In Central America, people threw beans to see which way they would land.
How to Interpret Dice
For divination it is recommended to use three six-sided dice. If you are outside find a large flat stone or draw a circle into the sand. If you are inside you can also draw a circle, use a board or a diagram cloth. Roll the dices in your hands and think about those things that you wish to get some clarity. Throw dices into the circle.
Only interpret the ones that are inside the circle. If none of the dice get into the circle this is not the right time for divination but you will get to wish something.
6 Eyes Interpretation
Six Eyes interpretation is done with one dice.
This method can be used for asking questions where you get simple yes/no answers.
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Not right now. Something like this takes lots of time and planning.
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Yes but you have to be honest.
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Not right now. Is the problem in you.
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Only if you are careful.
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Don´t be afraid to take chances.
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Yes, but only if you mean it.
9 Eyes Interpretation
Done with 2 Dice. Count the number of eyes together.
If you get a double digit number count the number so that you will get a single digit number.
For example:
1+1 = 2 and 6 + 6 = 12 would be 1 + 2 = 3.
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2. Big life changes. Something unexpected is going to happen.
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3. You will need help from your loved ones.
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4. Be careful with your finances.
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5. You are going to meet new people and make some new friends.
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6. Play it safe. Don´t take too many risks.
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7. Be careful who you trust.
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8. Relax and pamper yourself.
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9. New possibilities and great events ahead.
18 Eyes Interpretation
This divination with 3 Dice is recommended for more complex issues and questions.
Count the number of eyes together.
For example: 1 + 1 +1 = 3 and 6 + 6 +6 = 18 .
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3 .Happy surprises in love and friendship.
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4. Dissappointments ahead. Bad time to start new projects.
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5. Your hard work pays of but don´t let it get into your head.
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6. Someone is trying to take advantage of you.
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7. Someone is spreading lies about you behind your back.
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8. Relax and pamper yourself.
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9. Love and good luck.
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10. Career promotion.
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11. Take care of yourself. Observe your health. Sad news.
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12. Legal problems. Ask advice from a friend.
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13. Don´t use wealth or possession as the measure of happiness.
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14. You have a secret admirer.
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15. Good time for new projects. Time to see which of your friends will stay by your side.
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16. Journey ahead or visitors from far away.
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17. If you want to make it take chances.
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18. Good luck and success. Don´t be afraid to do what you want.
The Wisdom Oracle
Cast a Die three times and record the number for each cast.
or throw 3 Dice and place them next to eachother
Use the three numbers to look up the Oracle.
Click on the dice to go the Oracle
1-1-1 Most powerful is she who has herself in her own power
1-1-2 Control the eye.
1-1-3 Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
1-1-4 It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
1-1-5 Accept old age.
1-1-6 A fit, healthy body – that is the best fashion statement.
1-2-1 Do what you mean to do.
1-2-2 Honor a benefaction.
1-2-3 Be jealous of no one.
1-2-4 Do not be trapped by pain and resentment.
1-2-5 Do not censure the thoughts and behavior of others.
1-2-6 Find it in your heart to give others another chance.
1-3-1 Help your friends and comrades.
1-3-2 Love friendship and solidarity.
1-3-3 Do a favor for a friend.
1-3-4 Even when others disappoint you, be resilient and forgiving.
1-3-5 Be steadfast through good times and bad.
1-3-6 Resist blind loyalty.
1-4-1 We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go.
1-4-2 Above all, be the heroine/hero of your own life.
1-4-3 To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.
1-4-4 The Deity has entrusted you with yourself.
1-4-5 Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
1-4-6 What weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?
1-5-1 Respect your parents.
1-5-2 Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one!
1-5-3 Love your children.
1-5-4 Choose not to be harmed – and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed – and you haven't been.
1-5-5 You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
1-5-6 Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
1-6-1 Do not rush yourself or allow yourself to be overcome by pressure.
1-6-2 Do not respond to mistakes with condemnation and harshness.
1-6-3 Be still in each moment.
1-6-4 Be the hope when others have lost hope.
1-6-5 Be a solver, not a complainer.
1-6-6 Focus on solutions rather than problems.
2-1-1 This is vanity: living to pretend, living to seem, living to appear. And this makes the soul restless.
2-1-2 It is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more who is poor.
2-1-3 It is unjust to recline in comfort when all around there is suffering.
2-1-4 Reflect on the good things of life.
2-1-5 Notice small graces and be thankful for daily gifts.
2-1-6 Have a constant attitude of thankfulness and appreciation for life as it unfolds.
2-2-1 Share the load of the unfortunate.
2-2-2 Guard what is yours. Shun what belongs to others.
2-2-3 Despise insolence.
2-2-4 Gain possessions justly.
2-2-5 Use what you have.
2-2-6 Do not stop being thrifty.
2-3-1 Give what you have.
2-3-2 Be grateful.
2-3-3 Do not trust wealth.
2-3-4 Appreciate the simple gifts of life.
2-3-5 Enjoy where you are and what you have.
2-3-6 Be satisfied with what you have each moment.
2-4-1 You have the power to not want what you don't have and to put to good use what you do have.
2-4-2 How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
2-4-3 Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, butratherwishthateverythinghappensasit actuallydoes – then your life will flow smoothly.
2-4-4 When people support each other, incredible things happen.
2-4-5 The more you love, the more love you have to give. It's the only feeling we have which is infinite.
2-4-6 It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.
2-5-1 Endure suffering gracefully.
2-5-2 Seek the lessons in hardship.
2-5-3 Finish the race without hesitation.
2-5-4 The essence of wisdom is that a person should so live that her happiness shall depend as little as possible on externals.
2-5-5 Don't preach your philosophy. Embody it.
2-5-6 What other people think of me is none of my business.
2-6-1 When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
2-6-2 The person who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.
2-6-3 Allow hardship to cultivate your character.
2-6-4 As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
2-6-5 The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
2-6-6 The bravest sight in the world is to see a great person struggling against adversity.
3-1-1 Honor good people.
3-1-2 Despise evil.
3-1-3 Treat your body with respect by keeping it clean, fresh and healthy.
3-1-4 Nothing to excess.
3-1-5 Despise a slanderer.
3-1-6 Rid yourself of habits that do not serve your dignity.
3-2-1 Don't allow others to suffer needlessly.
3-2-2 Do not look out for the mistakes of others.
3-2-3 Extend your tenderness beyond what is just or deserved.
3-2-4 If you want anything good, get it from yourself.
3-2-5 Do not be a slave to addictions.
3-2-6 Respect yourself.
3-3-1 Follow the Supreme One.
3-3-2 Choose what is Divine.
3-3-3 It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
3-3-4 Choose responsibility instead of guilt for your mistakes.
3-3-5 Do not cling to what no longer fits your life.
3-3-6 You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
3-4-1 Be open to divergent viewpoints.
3-4-2 Do not get lost in distractions.
3-4-3 Do not tire of learning.
3-4-4 Circumvent bias and prejudice through critical thinking.
3-4-5 Our nature is to be logical and rational. Live in harmony with your rational nature.
3-4-6 Trust in reason.
3-5-1 Do not reject help when you need it.
3-5-2 Be willing to serve others.
3-5-3 Do not shame yourself or others with the illusion that we are meant to be perfect.
3-5-4 Love virtue.
3-5-5 Consult the wise.
3-5-6 Long for wisdom.
3-6-1 Cherish the rights of others.
3-6-2 Value each person as an individual.
3-6-3 Offer humanitarian service to others.
3-6-4 Test your character.
3-6-5 Imagination is more important than knowledge.
3-6-6 Be yourself.
4-1-1 Watch out for your enemies.
4-1-2 Don't tell the secret of another.
4-1-3 Worry and paranoia are a misuse of imagination.
4-1-4 Be a responsible steward of the earth.
4-1-5 In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
4-1-6 Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
4-2-1 Take yourself lightly and remember to play.
4-2-2 Find the humor in things, even in the midst of hard times.
4-2-3 Enjoy the simple pleasures of life.
4-2-4 When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
4-2-5 The fool thinks he is wise, but the wise know himself to be a fool.
4-2-6 The gold you have to dig for is not real gold.
4-3-1 We have not sacrificed until it ceases to hurt.
4-3-2 Do not despise giving up something important for something more important.
4-3-3 Make your life a sacred offering.
4-3-4 Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
4-3-5 The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
4-3-6 Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character. He who is cruel to animals cannot be a good person.
4-4-1 Worship the One Supreme Being.
4-4-2 Shun evil.
4-4-3 Have respect for suppliants to the Mysteries.
4-4-4 The true purpose of divination is to explore creative problem solving and human potential.
4-4-5 Genuine initiation occurs when we acknowledge our failings and weaknesses and take practical steps to remedy them.
4-4-6 Admire the oracles.
4-5-1 Take time for reflection and rational deliberation.
4-5-2 Apply the wisdom of your intuition to discover what is essential.
4-5-3 Do not seek praise or approval from others.
4-5-4 Foresee the future.
4-5-5 Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
4-5-6 Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
4-6-1 Treat yourself and others with dignity and respect.
4-6-2 Speak and act graciously.
4-6-3 Choose the high moral road regardless of the cost.
4-6-4 Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it; Time. How bried and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.
4-6-5 A very great vision is needed and the person who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue sky.
4-6-6 A frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.
5-1-1 Control your anger.
5-1-2 Exercise prudence.
5-1-3 Be on your guard.
5-1-4 Do not be condemnatory or resist differences.
5-1-5 Do not resist what you cannot change.
5-1-6 Do not depreciate diversity, whether of culture or temperament.
5-2-1 Do not depend on physical strength.
5-2-2 Deal kindly with everyone.
5-2-3 Venture into danger prudently.
5-2-4 Live together humbly.
5-2-5 The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
5-2-6 It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks.
5-3-1 The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
5-3-2 If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in some different place but to be a different person.
5-3-3 If you are quick-tempered train yourself to bear abuse with patience, and when you are insulted, not to get angry.
5-3-4 Our confidence ought to be turned towards death, and our caution towards the fear of death.
5-3-5 Reach beyond your comfort zone.
5-3-6 Embrace life fully, without holding back, doing what must be done even when it is difficult or risky.
5-4-1 Comply with the law of the city, state and country in which you live or travel.
5-4-2 Cling to discipline.
5-4-3 Be impartial.
5-4-4 Listen to everyone.
5-4-5 Shun murder.
5-4-6 Do not boast in might.
5-5-1 Be worthy of the trust others place in you.
5-5-2 Do not evade the challenge of doing the right thing in all circumstances.
5-5-3 Control yourself.
5-5-4 Make restitution for your mistakes.
5-5-5 Make fair agreements that benefit everyone equally.
5-5-6 Protect your rights and those of others.
5-6-1 Make just judgments.
5-6-2 Fear deceit.
5-6-3 Restrain the tongue.
5-6-4 Despise strife.
5-6-5 Do not oppose someone absent. Accuse one who ispresent.
5-6-6 Accept due measure.
6-1-1 Do not ignore when someone is hurt or needs a friend.
6-1-2 Do not allow someone to suffer when you can help.
6-1-3 Never criticize, condemn or complain about others.
6-1-4 Now is the time for your fever, bear it well; for thirst, bear it well; for hunger, bear it well; for death, bear it well.
6-1-5 We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
6-1-6 People are like tea bags: You never know how strong they are until they're in hot water.
6-2-1 Speak well of everyone.
6-2-2 Do away with enmities.
6-2-3 You are subject to sorrow, fear, jealousy, anger and inconsistency. That's the real reason you should admit that you are not wise.
6-2-4 Use your skill.
6-2-5 Tell when you know.
6-2-6 Give a timely counsel.
6-3-1 Act quickly.
6-3-2 A person who has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but goes on to another good act, as the vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.
6-3-3 The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
6-3-4 Give freely of your time and attention.
6-3-5 Look for opportunities to be useful.
6-3-6 Use your gifts to make a difference in the world.
6-4-1 Respect the elders.
6-4-2 You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
6-4-3 Asisatale,soislife;nothowlongitisbuthowgoodit is, is what matters.
6-4-4 Be attentive to the needs of others.
6-4-5 Control your emotions and impulses.
6-4-6 Live reflectively, with conscious awareness of your thoughts and actions.
6-5-1 Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
6-5-2 Grieve for no one.
6-5-3 She is a wise woman who does not grieve for the things which she has not, but rejoices for those which she has.
6-5-4 Be careful to leave your children well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
6-5-5 Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time.
6-5-6 Death never takes the wise woman by surprise, she is always ready to go.
6-6-1 Do not be dragged along by the leash of necessity.
6-6-2 Do not grow weak in the face of life's challenges.
6-6-3 Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of the worldly goods desired, but by controlling the desire for externals.
6-6-4 Bear and endure: This sorrow may one day prove to be for your good.
6-6-5 Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
6-6-6 The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
