Barleywine
I had never heard of zodiac symbols before and I think it's REALLY interesting! The subject of using dice for that kind of divination turned up in a Facebook group too and then I had to go and buy some dice! I got 2 astro-dice (one with planets and one with the zodiac signs) and a 30 sided die.
I looked up the Sabian symbols and like some other people I didn't really like them. Many of them were a big turn off for me.
So I'm currently looking at the other zodiac degrees systems and I'm not a fan of any of them HA!
I might make some comparisons between the few of them that I found the most relevant and either pick the symbol I prefer OR come up with something which seems suitable. That'll probably be a lot of work but I love studying new things!
In the meantime, I would probably use my dice in some other way. Like throwing both astro-dice while asking a question and go have a look at the corresponding natal chart meaning (ex. Moon in Leo). That's still 12 × 12 possibilities. (The planet one includes North and South nodes.)
Also while doing some searching I found that it could also be a good idea to use a 12 sided die to represent the houses.
I could try to find one or throw my 30 sided one until I get a number between 1 and 12.
Anyway now I'm steering away from the main subject of the thread!
Thank you Padma for bringing up this topic!
I might start another thread related to astro-dice divination!
Someone suggested to me using the Astro-Dice for rough timing: 12-sided for the months and 30-sided for the days. If you roll lower than your current date, just add 12 months and/or 30 days to the roll and move into the same month and day in the following year. It's similar to the technique used when hand-calculating an astrological chart and you get a total above 360 degrees; you just subtract 360 from it to come within the proper range.
On topic, the Sabian Symbols never did anything for me; they're simply too spacey in many cases.
