What is Scrying?
Scrying has always been used as a method of divination. In Hollywood it’s portrayed as an old Gypsy staring into a crystal-ball and waving her hands around.

Nice try… but that’s not
how it’s done exactly.

Scrying is a method for calming and training the mind to allow it to access and control information stored subconsciously. It helps us  focus and learn to access our minds at deeper levels.

This means information such as past life recall, psychic ability awakening, divination, remote viewing, and a multitude of other magickal workings to be viewed via scrying rather than through trance or other routes.

Scrying is a tool for energy workers, pagans, wiccans and spiritualists to use in order to connect to that which is just outside the physical world. It is also another example of taking a modern everyday object and opening up possibilities to work some modern city magick.

What can I use?
The best thing to use in my opinion is a mirror. It doesn’t have to be a black one, you can work with normal mirrors just fine. Try to pick one that isn’t too bulky and is good and sturdy.

You can also try scrying with other materials as well – dark colored bowl filled with water or tea, still water, round clear crystal spheres you can pick up at gem shops and psychic fairs, even something shiny and metal. Your only problem may be, it likely will take longer to work. Be patient at first!

Can it be dangerous?

I have never been harmed while doing this.

However, sometimes the images and recall are things you do not want, or are not supposed to see yet. If you are a more ritualized person, then cast a circle around the area you are going to use.

Remember, you aren’t calling anything or trying to work any actual spell here. You are just using the mirror or object as a tool for divination – just as you would if you had tarot cards or runes in front of you.

Basic Format for Scrying…
With everything, practice makes perfect. Most people cannot get focused enough to have any success at scrying the first time. They end up being too distracted, too bored, or too tired.

I suggest for beginners you should try scrying when you are wide awake and focused on task. Try to avoid playing around with it while you are upset or have a lot weighing on your mind because it will be far too hard to calm your mind and train it for this work.

Scrying is very close to meditation – and in fact it is often explained as a form of meditation.

What you are essentially doing is accessing different stages of consciousness.

You want to make sure that when you do this however, you can be focused enough to not let your mind wander too far.

Here are a few exercises you may want to try before you start scrying for the first time. Not only will it get you familiar with the mindset, but it will help you figure the best way that scrying works for you.

The mind is a stubborn thing to focus sometimes because of the human logic in there. These exercises are to get you ready to be able to see these images.

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Exercise one:
Close your eyes and relax them. Try to look at the darkness of your closed eyes. Try to pick up every little detail of what you see.

Allow yourself to relax and get your scrying vision set. You may notice what looks like lights playing patterns, or images seeming to come from no where. That is a good thing. Congratulate yourself; your scrying eyes are working.

If not, not a big deal. Keep trying and if it helps, light a candle in front of you and try meditation. Normally you wouldn’t notice anything there simply because your mind tells you that you can’t see when your eyes are closed. It’s that dual edged sword of having human logic. Sometimes it helps, and sometimes it keeps you in a box.

Stick with it. Call it what you will, imagination or wishful thinking; at least you now have your mind in the context to experiment.

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Exercise two:
Turn on your favorite music, close your eyes and get into a relaxed position.

Let your mind drift with the music, focus on the blackness of your closed eyes, let your mind form any images it wants or needs to.

Most of scrying has to deal with one simple thing: visualization. When you do this, try to see images that are portrayed in the music. There is no right or wrong with this. Just let your mind drift on it.

Side Note: Like anything, you want to make sure the area you are working in, and also your mindset, is ‘clear’. If you’re very emotionally upset or angry, it will effect the outcome of anything you do.

Play with it and experiment to see what works best for you and what your stimulations pick up best. If you are a very visual person you will have better luck with this than a tactile method. Either way, like all magick, it can be adapted and altered to the individual.

Happy scrying!