A Reading with Color Dice/Decks

This was a reading for myself on 4/9/25, starting with my color dice. There are 16 colors of 10-sided dice in my bag:

Silver: Chthonic gods, spirits, and influences
Black: Community
Brown: Boundaries
Pink: Receiving from others
Red: Will and passion
Orange: Creativity and the future
Yellow: Body and possessions
Green: Thoughts
Light Blue: Giving to others
Dark Blue: Emotions
Purple: Psychic abilities and the past
White: Highest/Best Self
Gold: Celestial gods, spirits, and influences
Copper: That which holds it all together
Rainbow: The sum of everything
Grey: That which stands apart and is neutral

The first 13 correspond to energy centers in and around my body. I learned using the rainbow "chakra" system and later found out it's not rooted in historical practices. The color associations are ingrained in me now, though. I know some of the colors suggest the Progress Pride flag but I created this before that - I have notes on my color system dating back to 2008 and the flag was created in the late 2010s. There are no intentional statements about race, gender, or being trans in what I did.

The first step in my reading was to decide if I wanted to explore a particular subject or just get the general vibes. I decided I wanted to look into my creativity so I chose Orange as my first die. I then randomly selected 3 more dice, getting Rainbow, Brown, and Black in that order, and rolled them.

The numerology I use these days is cribbed directly from The Cerulean Sequence by James R. Eads, so I won't reiterate it here for copyright reasons.

I view the 4 dice in a reading as a "sentence" - the first one is the subject, the second represents the verb or some action taking place, the third is the object or result, and the fourth is a piece of advice on what action to take next.

Sometimes, intuition tells me that this formula is off - maybe there are multiple results. And sometimes, the last die doesn't really describe an action. In those cases, I randomly select and roll a fifth die to see if I can get a recommended action. In this case, it wasn't necessary.

3 has to do with creativity and self-expression, so I read the first die as "Creative self-expression".

2 has to do with partnership and harmony: "brings about harmony with the All"

5 has to do with changes and breaking cycles: "and breaks cycles with community."

6 has to do with love and caring for each other: "Set loving boundaries."

I also have a set of magpie decks curated for each color, with the rainbow deck being my 1000+ card magpie called The Big One and the others being 80 cards or less, basically traditional Tarot decks in their structure. I've created symbols for the colors that didn't already have a traditional symbol (Red, Yellow, Green, Dark Blue) and created 6-8 card spreads for each symbol. So I can take the deck relating to any color and optionally use the color spread to dig deeper into any of the dice I used. In this case, I decided I wanted to know more about Black: What cycles with community would break and what would be the result?

The spreads don't have set interpretations for each card position; I prefer to judge intuitively how the cards interact with each other. In this case, the leftmost card, 5 of Pentacles reversed, was my theme or subject, and it has to do with being in need and passing up help when it's upright. Here, I see it as telling me to ask for help and accept that help.

Next is The Lovers, and I felt that it was showing up in the context of making decisions - this card isn't always about literal love. So I decided to interpret the following 3 cards in the vertical line as a message about that decision. The center card, the Knight of Swords, is what decision I'm making: the decision to act on my thoughts. The top card is the current path, represented by the Knight of Wands reversed: I'm not acting on my passions, in this case my creative work, to the extent that I could. The bottom card, then, is what happens if I change course: 4 of Pentacles, or holding tight to resources.

Because I'm reading for myself here, I know my own situation and can see how, if thoughts arise that I could use help doing certain things in order to free up more time and energy for creativity, there's at least one person who might be able to provide that help. I haven't been doing this or thinking about it, but I could, and fiercely guarding my time and resources would help further. But if I keep thinking about how much it sucks that my current situation limits my time for creative projects, I'm not going to get anywhere.

The last two cards represent the current outcome - the outcome if I continue as I've been going. 6 of Wands reversed indicates failure or at least a lack of notable success. The Knight of Cups indicates acting on emotions, which can be good or bad, and in an upright position it seems more likely to be good...but I've already seen enough to know that I don't want to go down this path, even if this one card is positive.

So, I need to work on boundaries that respect my limitations and needs as well as others'. It seems clear that I can ask for more and some people around me will be happy to help me, rather than trying to take care of everything myself and distancing myself from the cycles of give and take that make a community.

Are you interested in a reading like this, or a reading including only dice or only a color deck? My Booking page has more information.

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