It is both good and preferable to throw the dice on a non-skid surface, such as a rubber mat, a piece of fabric with a nap to it (such as felt, velvet, suede or fur), or a sheet of craft foam, which can be purchased inexpensively at a fabric store or craft supplies store. You want to minimize skid. I like to draw the circle with some kind of ‘puffy’ kind of craft glue, which serves as a barrier to keep the dice from rolling out of the circle.
I keep my dice in a special cup for use when casting. Three dice used are traditionally used for dice divination, and the traditional answers number from one to eighteen. If you have only two dice, you throw the dice twice to get an accurate reading. One die, you’ll have to throw it three times to get an accurate reading. When I purchased my dice, it came in a pack of five. You can discard the extra two dice or give them to a needy friend and use only three, but if you choose to throw all five dice, I have included additional meanings beyond the traditional eighteen in the interpretations which follow. The meanings for the throw-results nineteen-through-thirty are based on the meanings the ancient Chaldeans assigned to those numbers, and personal experience.
Predictions the dice make are said to come true within nine days, so it’s recommended you dice-divine no more than once a week. Attempt no more than three throws in a dice divination session. If, in three throws, all the dice land outside the circle, then the Spirits either don’t have a message for you or don’t want to communicate with you at that time for reasons known only to Them. If this is the case, accept it and try again next week.
Love this! I have a question, I threw two dice, do you add them both up? Or just look at each number on the dice and read those meanings?
You’ll add up the numbers on both dice and look for the meaning of the resultant number.
When I roll dice where will I get unswer,,and how?or what I the meaning of 1,2,3,4,5,6 through dice?
Thank you for mentioning this issue. I will work on a correction, perhaps a Concise List of Number meanings. I thought I’d included a downloadable list of number results and their meanings in the lesson, but I could be wrong.
If you use 2 or 3 dice how do you get a 1 or a 2 if you add the numbers together?
The only way you could throw a 1 with two or three dice is if only one die lands in the casting circle, and the other one or two dice land outside the casting circle. The only way you could throw a 2 with two dice is a pair of snake eyes. If throwing a 2 with three dice, that result would have to be a pair of snake eyes, with the third die landing outside the casting circle. On the issue of throwing a 1 or a 2 with two or three dice, there appears to be an unspoken assumption that one or two of the dice have landed outside the casting circle. Opinion differ a little on the divinatory meanings of the various numbers thrown with the dice, but I’ve found a dice-divination source or two which frankly don’t even cover a 1 or a 2 result, considering only throws of 3 or higher to be of any significance. I included meanings for a throw of 1 or 2 for the sake of being comprehensive, and on the off-chance that someone might throw a number that low. But if a dice-diviner wants to establish for themselves the operating principle that any number below 3 is meaningless and therefore not to be considered, there is some support for that premise. Throwing a 1 or 2 is rather rare, anyway.
ON THE OTHER HAND: There are those dice diviners who consider any dice landing outside the circle to be a bad omen, indicating an upset or an argument. And if any dice land on the floor, that’s considered to be even worse, indicating a break-up or relationship-ending argument. So a throw of 1 or 2, with one or two dice landing outside the circle, can indicate those numbers’ meanings, accompanied by an upset or argument, so in effect you have a two-part prediction. For example, say you throw a two with three dice and two dice land in the circle, the other two outside the circle. Two, according to the source I use, says ‘Take a good look at situations in your life at this time. Things may not be quite what they seem to be.’ Because some dice diviners take dice landing outside the circle to mean an upset or an argument is coming, this throw could be saying you’ll take a closer look at a certain situation, discover something amiss, or discover that you and another person are operating under different assumptions, and an argument ensues. And if the one die which landed outside the circle in this example landed on the floor, some sources say the argument could be serious enough to lead to a break-up. So for a scenario like that, a throw of 1 or 2 with two or three dice could turn out to be very significant for a person.
I myself am neutral on the idea of taking any dice which land outside the circle to be of any significance, because if you live with, work with, or regularly interact with a naturally-argumentative person, then a die or two landing outside the circle indicating an argument doesn’t tell you anything you don’t already know. And sometimes nothing of the sort happens. But your mileage may vary.