Astrology

I've been learning about astrological dice lately.

An astrological dice is a stripped down astrological gadget that consists of a set of 3 dodecahedral dice. It has astrological symbols engraved on it. One at a time you can ask a question with enough detail to range yet small, and then throw it on a flat surface. A guess at the outcome is assembled based on the pattern engraved on the face-up side of the dice display.

It's only been a few lessons, I think, but people in the group are already playing it. Every day someone asks a question, then rolls a die and makes a guess based on the die. Then the results are used to verify the original guess.

The questions are varied, such as:

Interestingly, the interpretations of these astrological symbols do make some degree of connection to the actual results.

For example:

Question 1, the dice symbols are Jupiter, Sagittarius, and the 1st house.

Jupiter itself is very expansive and represents chance, and chance with a high degree of likelihood. Sagittarius represents a state of randomness, where the outcome is purely random. the 1st house represents the state of internalization of the subject of the question, which is that the child actually wants to finish the writing anyway.

Putting it all together the child should be able to write, with a probability of finishing. There is a probability of not finishing it. But mom should be generally satisfied.

Then I went home and confirmed that this was the case.

Question two rolled out of the sun and ended up being optimistic. It would be delivered. Interestingly, within a few minutes of the throw, the downpour was gone and sunny skies reappeared.

Question three is Pluto, Leo in the third house. This one has connotations of verbal timidity. And Pluto is notorious for "doing it all over again". I've since found out that it did fail. the ppt was well prepared, but I didn't work too hard on the verbalization.

Perhaps all this is horseplay, or perhaps the original symbols are part of the condensation of human culture, and everything we ask is originally a cultural phenomenon in the details. So it's no surprise that it's encapsulated.

But for someone like me, who is already a godly fan of small escapades, this play is just too much fun. And for my profession, screenwriting, this tool, whether it's accurate or not, god or not, true or not, is a flexible source of story material. It's also an effective tool for collecting character vignettes.

By extension, it's also an effective little interpersonal icebreaker when entering unfamiliar groups.

But the market is pretty spoiled for the horoscope stream, so I guess people who don't like the topic of horoscopes will be even more offended by this technique.