Scrying the Secrets of the Future: How to Use Crystal Ball, Fire, Wax, Mirrors, Shadows, and Spirit Guides to Reveal Your Destiny
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Scrying the Secrets of the Future: How to Use Crystal Ball, Fire, Wax, Mirrors, Shadows, and Spirit Guides to Reveal Your Destiny
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| ISBN-13: | 9781632657954 |
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| Publisher: | Red Wheel/Weiser |
| Publication date: | 12/08/2006 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 272 |
| File size: | 940 KB |
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CHAPTER 1
How Scrying Works
Scrying is a natural process that draws on the vast, untapped resources of the human mind. It is not intended to replace logic, analysis, or the reasoning processes of everyday thinking. Rather, it supplements what we see as already known with unknown or unprocessed information. Scrying also offers a dynamic, creative way of making connections between apparently unrelated factors.
Central to scrying is the interpretation of symbols that appear in or on the surface of the scrying medium (for example, formed by floating ink on water).
Symbols, according to 20th-century occultist Dion Fortune, are believed to contain the energies and experiences of all the people who had used them or seen the actual manifestation of the symbol in real life.
Processing Psychic Information
The right side of the brain, from which the imagination comes, is the hemisphere through which clairvoyance and scrying abilities may be most readily developed. With this often underutilized hemisphere, we can anticipate with great accuracy a future not yet made, recall verifiable details of a past we did not consciously experience, and derive images or actual scenes about people and places currently beyond the physical eye range.
The right hemisphere can effectively manipulate these images and also deal with hypotheses of future events without needing facts and figures.
The left side of the brain is more concerned with organizing present experiences and our consciously recalled past. In daily life, this is the vital part of the brain that enables us to function within measured time and recall useful facts from our past. The behavior, experiences, and relationships from our past guide us to make sensible choices or steer us away from hazards; it works mainly in words.
Of course predictions of the future can be made from what is already known and by assessing likeness. But when we add our imaginative powers to the right brain, to the deducing process of the left brain, we can bring to the fore what is not expected or reasonably predictable — and use these prophecies to make sensible choices in the here and now.
The previously mentioned is of course, a simplification, and you may wish to study detailed accounts of recent and past experiments in parapsychology.
This unknown information can also be given in the images we see during scrying by our Spirit Guides, angels, and recently deceased family members or spiritual ancestors.
If you are relatively new to the art you may have to prompt yourself at first: What do I feel about this image, as I hold the crystal ball? What extra information comes through my fingertips, and what is the message I hear about the scrying experience?
But eventually, as soon as you see a picture in your crystal or mirror, your mind will be flooded with words and impressions, and your fingertips may actually tingle.
What Is Time in the Scrying World?
In scrying, clock time is relative. Early moon calendars were an accurate way of predicting the migration or return of certain birds, or the arrival of the herds that occurred regularly after a set number of full moons.
However, lunar calendars were at odds with dates calculated by the sun. The Celtic Coligny calendar, for example, inserted an extra month called Ciallos every two and a half to three years. Ciallos was the month of no time, meant to synchronize with the sun's path through the skies
But solar time, as calculated by the apparent movement of the sun through the skies, has flaws of its own. We compensate for these with leap years.
Because the length of the day according to solar time is not the same throughout the year, calculated solar time was invented, based on the motion of a hypothetical sun traveling at an even rate throughout the year. The difference in the length of a 24-hour day at different seasons of the year can be as much as 16 minutes.
Standard time, which is based on solar time, was introduced in 1883, and the Earth was officially divided into 24 time zones.
The base position is the zero meridian of longitude that passes through the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich, England, and time zones are described by their distance east or west of Greenwich. Within each time zone, all clocks are set to the same time. In 1966, the U.S. Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which established eight standard time zones for the United States. In 1983, several time zone boundaries were altered so that Alaska, which had formerly spanned four zones, could be nearly unified.
Turning Back the Clock
Take a bowl of water and look into it, recalling a momentous day in your past: the day you earned your first paycheck, your wedding day, the day you had your first child. Relive every moment as you look into the water: words, feelings, fragrances, and tastes, and, above all, look through the eyes of the person you were then.
Close your eyes and you may see the scene within the water as if you were looking down at it, yet it is still in your mind. Most of us cry when we recall losing someone we love, even 10 or 20 years later. Now go forward and anticipate getting off the plane on a trip you have saved all year for, especially if it is a place you love and have visited before. Live the moment fully — what you will feel and say, or the smell of the brewing coffee or the orange groves after rain. Both moments were real, and both were beyond measured time that has been ticking away while you walked down memory lane and explored tomorrow.
Back to the Future
You can also scry to discover a time frame within which a prediction will occur. How long before I meet my life partner, become pregnant, or get the job offer I am working towards? You can see ahead in pictures or symbols in the water. But when? A month, a year, or further away? If you want to know more precisely, focus on your image in the water and look for clues.
In the water, or in you mind, picture yourself and add the backcloth. Do you look older? How much older? Is it fall or spring? Can you see any clues — for example, your brother's presence when you know he is coming home for a holiday in six months? Does it feel soon? If you don't see the image you expected, work with what you do see, no matter what it is.
Working With Symbols
Children work with pictures rather than words when they are young. Jane, age 4, asked her mother Suzie if Aunty Anne would be taking care of her when her mother went out for the evening. Asked how Jane could know she was hoping to go out, because at the time no plans had been made, Jane said, "I can see you in your blue dress, with your new lipstick on."
"Where can you see me?" asked Suzie.
"In your mind, of course," replied Jane. "I can see the picture in your mind."
Five minutes before, Suzie had been day dreaming of getting ready and putting on her new blue dress to go out, and Jane had been sitting with her and watching.
As adults we tend to be much more word-based, but we still retain deep inside us, underneath the categories and the rationalizations and the neat boxes in which we file experiences, that natural clairvoyance and ease with symbols children take for granted, especially if we slow down and sit still as young Jane did.
Interpreting Symbols
To begin understanding symbols, let's use the example of a flower seen in oils floated on water, when Olivia asked the question of whether there was anyone out there that cared about her after 20 years of marriage.
Pretend you are trying to interpret the flower. The flower outline acts as a key to the inner vision of an actual flower, or one from the astral or spiritual plane. Flowers signify love, gifts, growth, and beauty. Now probe further to understand the deeper meaning of the specific flower shown.
For example, observe if the flower is blooming, budding, starting to wilt, or dying. Where is the flower? Is it in its natural place, growing in the ground, or has it been cut? Cut flowers give pleasure and may signify a celebration, either as part of a bouquet or a single rose given in love. But cut flowers do quickly lose their vitality and will not grow for much longer.
Is the flower being given as a peace offering, received with love, rejected, an exhibit in a flower show winning a prize? Has it been tossed on the ground or trampled underfoot, cast into water as an offering, or worn in the hair? Is it a tall graceful flower in a vase, a small wildflower in a meadow, or a well-tended flower in a neat flowerbed? What color is it — brilliant and tropical, or pale and delicate? What do you feel about the flower image? Do you pick up feelings of love at the gift, or sadness because it is dying or abandoned? Is it fragrant or just a decorative silk or paper flower? If it is not a real flower, what is not real about your present situation or relationship? What words or phrases do you hear in your mind? Is the flower a kind that was loved by a deceased relative you have been trying to contact, and so carries a message from that loved one? Is it offered to you by someone living but who is far away and thinking of you? What does the flower say to you and about the situation you are thinking of right now?
You can then apply all the information that has been gained from the single outline of the flower to the real-life situation. In fact, Olivia said the flower was in a weed patch, dying, but she believed it was still alive. Olivia said the weeds would need to be cleared away by her husband who worked 24/7 and only spoke to her when he wanted sex or a clean shirt. But she still believed the relationship was worth some effort and one last chance.
The more you develop your clairvoyant powers, the more your visions will appear as symbols, because symbols contain information that is far deeper and more spiritual than a straightforward representation of a scene.
The Powers Involved in Scrying and How to Develop Them
Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance, in the sense of clear seeing as opposed to the umbrella term that incorporates all the psychic senses, first involves seeing a physical image within the scrying medium. Then the scryer makes that image come to life either within the water, mirror, or on the inner screen within their mind. It is easier to animate an image in some scrying tools than others.
Crystal balls and water are best for revealing physically moving detailed images, whereas coffee grounds or candle wax may trigger stronger inner clairvoyant images. It really depends on the individual.
The following technique, called eidetic imagery, is one I teach to new clairvoyants and also more experienced ones who feel blocked. Start by looking at a large detailed picture or photograph, preferably brightly colored. Study it for a few minutes, either on a plain table with a white cloth or hung on a plain wall. Memorize every detail. Next, take the picture away and stare at the surface of the wall or table and imagine the picture still being there, building up the details from the center, persevering until you can project every detail on the wall.
Now, look out of the window at a familiar scene and memorize the details of that, noting anything unusual such as a strange cat sitting in the middle of the grass. When you have committed the image to memory, turn around and project it on the wall, this time not consciously inserting details, but allowing them to emerge slowly on their own.
Finally, picture a scene from the past where you were happy and, in your mind, paint it on the wall. We will work further with this technique in Chapter 10.
Clairaudience
Clairaudience is primarily the ability to hear words or sounds that are not part of the material world, which may be wisdom channeled from wise Spirit Guides, nature essences, or the devas, the higher nature spirits akin to angels (especially when scrying outdoors). You may also receive messages from angels, ancestors, and deceased loved ones externally or more frequently with clairaudience in your mind.
As you become more clairaudient, you will be able to distinguish your own wise inner voice from the background noise we all carry in our heads, whether as free-floating worries or lists of jobs to be finished.
Developing Your Psychic Ear and Voice
The development of clairaudience also enables us to speak wisely and with kindness if we are reading for others. It helps us to speak spontaneously about what will be helpful, and to remain silent about something we have seen that the other person may not be ready to accept or that would detract from the main positive message.
Such words that seem not to be ours, though spoken in our voice to a client or friend, can be very healing and empowering. They can lift what may be an accurate reading into one that inspires and points to a new window of opportunity in a situation that previously seemed closed or hopeless.
Tuning Into Psychic Sounds
To strengthen your innate clairaudient abilities, listen to sounds people have heard in other times and places, so your psychic ear becomes aware through the sounds of those other times and dimensions. The sounds may trigger images, fragrances, tastes, impressions, or scenes of occasions when bells called people to church for a wedding or a Sunday service. For places with good sounds you can try:
* Stand in a crowded market, close your eyes, and let the calls of the vendors carry you to earlier markets and fairs. At Christmas and special occasions, the old trades may be revived and, with them, the smells as well as the sounds of past centuries.
* Church, cathedral, or temple bells ringing out in celebration and calling the faithful to worship.
* A choir singing in Latin or another language you do not know, preferably heard in a high-vaulted cathedral or abbey. Buy a CD so you can listen at home or in the car.
* Ships at a port and vendors selling fish on the beach.
* Bird song, if possible in natural surroundings, both in the day and as they fly around before nesting at night. The call of seagulls can be especially evocative.
* Farm animals, especially when they have their young and are calling to them; also free-running hens and cockerels.
* Children playing.
When you are confident, you can try without the physical sound stimuli, choosing instead a location that will have absorbed sounds into the walls or stones through the centuries; old places hold the sounds of the past in their walls. People have reported hearing church bells under lakes, only to learn later of legends of sunken villages beneath the water.
It may be possible to do detective work in a local museum or library to understand the context of a seemingly unrelated sound. For example, in Cornwall in South West England on Bodmin Moor there are disused tin mines. Echoes of this once, thriving industry can be heard on misty evenings and at dawn when the shifts would have started or ended.
Clairsentience and Psychometry
These two psychic senses are very close and can be practiced through the same exercise. Clairsentience, as I have already mentioned, is vital as a guide to what you feel about an image.
Incenses, oils, and scented candles are very powerful triggers of clairsentient abilities and make it possible for you to move into a light trance state or higher level of awareness where hidden knowledge becomes accessible during scrying.
Psychometry, the art of psychic touch, operates through the sensitive chakras in the palms of the hands and fingertips that respectively link with the green Heart chakra energy center.
Psychic touch operates as a transmitter of our personal psychic energies, so when you or a client holds a crystal ball, it will enable you to pick up psychic impressions about the other person. More importantly, your crystal, mirror, and any medium, such as a fire, have an aura or energy field in the same way humans do. Psychic information that will help you tune into your scrying will be activated through your fingertips.
Clairsentience, Psychometry, and Old Places
Choose a location that is, if possible, at least 100 years of history, and with which you are not familiar. Perhaps a reconstructed Gold Rush outpost, an industrial museum where there are original artifacts, or a haunted house would suffice. Gettysburg, Salem, or the Plymouth area where the Pilgrim Fathers landed, the Serpent Mound in Ohio, the Heights of Abraham in Quebec, or a historical city such as Boston are ideal, because there were so many powerful events there. Museums where you can handle artifacts will give you a wide range of cultures, one of which you may have an affinity to.
Go to an established forest, perhaps connected with an indigenous culture, or to a botanical garden where there will be Nature devas, spirits, and fragrances, such as rose or lavender, to carry you to other times. The best times to visit are in the morning or evening when it is quiet. Do not study the history in advance; avoid guided tours until you have formed your own impressions.
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Table of Contents
Introduction,
Chapter 1: How Scrying Works,
Chapter 2: Preparations for Scrying,
Chapter 3: Scrying With Water,
Chapter 4: Scrying With Fire,
Chapter 5: Scrying With Air,
Chapter 6: Earth Scrying,
Chapter 7: Scrying With Wax,
Chapter 8: Ink and Oil Scrying,
Chapter 9: Dream Scrying,
Chapter 10: Scrying With Mirrors,
Chapter 11: Dark Mirror Scrying,
Chapter 12: Scrying With Crystal Balls,
Chapter 13: Scrying With Tea Leaves and Coffee Grounds,
Chapter 14: Scrying With Shadows,
Appendix: The Deities of Fate,
Useful Reading,
Index,
About the Author,