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Scrying is one of those things that rarely worked well for me. I'm too easily distracted and so rarely centered, whatever deep and mystic truths might be sent back my way are obscured by my own mental flotsam.
But I can get pictues to turn up, so that's a start. I've found it's a an interesting way of getting good, dreamy surreal inspiration for art projects. I've not get the discipine to use it for personal development.
I know two methods. The second is more "wow amazing" and freaky (if that's the kind of experience you are after), the first is a little too much like daydreaming for my tastes.
The first is basically to sit with a bowl of water (strong mugwort tea, with herb fragments for preference, is slightly better for me) and swirl it round in a darkened room. You need a little light just so that the eddies glint and flash at you. Get into a receptive state of mind and just see what things occur as you watch the water move. Sometimes I see images as faint overlays, sometimes things just turn up in my head, and sometimes I watch the movement of partices in the water and interpret the shapes they form.
I treat the scrying as a communication between myself and the spirit of the water/herb/whatever else I've used. I've found that having different things in the water does affect my results. Sometimes I spit into the water before I start, so that theres a sympathy between me and the things in the bowl.
I try and finish with a spirit of gratefullness to the water, and always pour it onto soil with living things in it. Barren soil as last resort. Never down the sink or drain. Respect to the water and all that.
I've done similar with beer/gin/tea when a little divination has been needed in cafes/bars.
Incidentally- I'm one of those people that cannot see the sailboat in those pictures of wavy lines you're supposed to stare at so the image pops out. Don't know if that's relevant.
MIght be with this method, as I always look through it and let my eyes unfocus as I do it. Same as for the magic-eye pictures. I'm not sure how essential this is to success, but it is part of my process.
The other, simpler, method is simple mirror gazing. Just stare at your face in a mirror for a long time and watch. You'll start getting distortions, blurs, pictures. It's weird and a bit eurgh. But dress it up with smoke (again, suggesting mugwort) and a little bit of ritual and I'm sure this could be an interesting tool.
Personally, I wouldn't want to use a cracked mirror unless it was a recquirement of the beings/places I was trying to scry. Faery/faeries are cracked mirror kind of people. BUt otherwise, I'm just thinking that cracked mirrors are bad luck and present fractured images. You could just use a normal mirror, I've never needed a special one.
And what are my options for seeing? The future? Entities? For what should I be looking?
What are you looking for? You can see pretty much anything. It's your Imagination, right? I'd recommend choosing what you are looking for before you go out into the mirror. If you can go anywhere, you tend to go nowhere. Does that make sense?
I prefer cartomancy to be honest, playing cards for preference. Less free wheeling, so I can't just follow my distraction around. But whatever, tell us how it goes. I'd be interested to hear. |
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