Color Dice: Part 3 - The Dice

I decided to use a base 10 numerology system, so I use d10s. I looked at several systems:

• The one James R. Eads used for The Cerulean Sequence, which is the one I finally went with
• The one in The Way of Tarot by Alejandro Jodorowsky
• The one in 54 Devils by Gary Thomas Hutcheson
• The four suit-based meanings for 1-10 cards in Playing Card Divination for Beginners by Richard Webster
• I think there may have been one or two more that I can't find at the moment.

My top piece of advice here is to have a universal theme for each number - the number means a specific thing, which you then interpret through the lens of a color. I initially tried to create story arcs going from 1-10 for each color and it was way too much to remember. You can build a story arc around each color's progression through the numbers, but giving each number a meaning first will make it much easier to remember.

I read the number that comes up for the first die's color as where the querent is in a current journey or lesson having to do with that color. It isn't necessarily their overall progression in the domain of that color - rolling 1 for Dark Blue, which represents emotion, doesn't mean the querent is emotionally immature. It means they're just starting to explore something to do with their emotions.

Test our your numerology as you did with your colors - you may find one of the paradigms I listed above, or another paradigm, works better or more naturally for you than others. My original system in which each color had its own 1-10 progression was accurate but meant constantly looking up interpretations that were too numerous for me to memorize. What I'm doing now, works better for me.

I also have an app on my phone called Sophie's Dice, which I got on itch.io. I created a bag of dice in the app that contains a d10 of each color, plus a d16 because I have 16 colors. I roll the d16 to randomly decide which of the d10s to roll.

When I use real dice, I have one for each color, so there are no repeats. What I've found when using Sophie's Dice is that a repeat on the d16 is the dice telling me "I said what I said" - emphasizing the last die I rolled and ending the reading there. When this has happened before I had 4 d10s rolled, the abbreviated reading has made sense and usually read me for filth. I've even had a single d10 reading that simply told me my thoughts were going around in circles. That was true and I don't think I would have gotten any farther without acknowledging it was true. So having the extra virtual die adds another way for the dice to get their point across. As a professional reader I feel I should ask querents whether they want the physical dice or the virtual ones, and let them make the decision...but at the moment, I prefer the virtual ones. I never would have expected that before downloading the app as a "backup" for when I don't have dice on me or can't discreetly roll them.