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In Cubus

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Today's post is a little different.  A while back I heard about "Occult Dices", so I decided to make one.  So, here it is.  An occult dice is one with symbols on each facet instead of numbers.  They can be rolled while doing divination (info about the future) but this one came from idea I got from another website.   The very talented Los Angeles painter Daniel Martin Diaz makes these amazing paintings that are sort of a gothic, mystical take on Catholic imagery combined with scientific illustrations from astronomy and anatomy.  At one point he had a printout thing to make an occult dice called "Cubus", and he said to print it out, make it and then "roll the dice, meditate on the symbols and you can discover hidden mysteries inside yourself".   Here's mine.  The symbol in the centre has a specific meaning to me, but the rest were all drawn at once with no thought of creating a meaning, in one rapid stream of consciousness.   It