Well, it looks like Samhain activity has already begun in my house. Monday night after I got home from work, I saw the glass plate that my friend Lady Sabrina Rhiannon gave my husband and I for our unity candle which we used in our wedding/handfasting broken in HALF and sitting on the kitchen table. I said to my husband, "What the hell happened? Did the cats knock it over or something?" He said, "No, we were just sitting in the living room (where I had it sitting on my coffee table) and all of the sudden I heard a loud CRACK!" He said it was not the cats or him it just BROKE - in a clean break at that - after all of these many years! Damn, someone in my house wants to be noticed. 😮
At any rate, this weekend is Samhain and my sister Aurora Skye and I are holding our yearly ritual celebration on Saturday. One thing new we are planning to do this year during our ceremony will be crystal ball gazing and pendulum divination.
I have done very little work with scrying and crystal gazing and so I had to do a bit of rough research this week. Here is a very interesting article from The Celtic Connection's page which I came across and I would like to share with you all ...
Crystal Ball Gazing
This technique is best if done with a Crystal Ball 2-5 inches in diameter and works best on nights of the full moon.
Note from Herne: If the purchase a Crystal Ball is not within your budget, a bowl of water with a Quartz Crystal Cluster at the bottom will suffice. True Quartz Crystal Balls can be quite expensive. Also, never substitute a resin or glass ball since they are ineffective for anything other than children's games.
Light one or two candles in a darkened, quiet room. You can hold the crystal or place it on a stand, but it should have a blue or black velvet cloth underneath it. Make sure that there are no reflections from anything showing in the ball. You can also burn incense if you wish. Patchouli works great for me.
Before beginning, center yourself. Gaze into the ball, but do not stare. Try not to blink that much. While you are gazing, breathe in and out slowly and deeply. Just relax and gaze. You will feel a sense of limitless time. Enjoy the peacefulness and simply gaze. Do this for at least 15 minutes, and increase your time by 5 minutes with each succeeding session.
Usually around the second or third session, you will notice a small cloudy glow in the center of the crystal. This is your focusing area where your visions will appear. You may get a vision on your first try, while others have to attempt it several times before seeing something. Go at your own pace.
Just a small warning: Always remember the saying "Be Careful What You Wish For" while gazing. Think about what you wish to see before gazing.
On my third session ( when I got my first vision ) I asked to see a vision of my previous life. I saw myself burning to death in a house fire. That was something that I didn't really enjoy remembering. Now I find that it is best to just gaze and receive whatever comes to me. Perhaps you can have more peaceful visions by doing that too.
There are also different forms that visions come in. You can get actual visions of places and people, or you can get symbolic pictures. Another form that visions come in are color clouds. Although no one has been successful in identifying what each color cloud means, the following has been pretty accurate for a lot of seers.
- Blue clouds symbolize success of career or business
- Gold clouds symbolize prosperity, steady cash flow, and renewed romance to come
- Gray/Dark gray symbolize ill fortune
- Black clouds symbolize some seriously bad stuff coming one's way
- Green clouds symbolize health, happiness of the heart
- Orange clouds symbolize hidden aggression and anger, troubled emotions
- Red clouds symbolize danger to come. This person must watch themselves
- Silver clouds symbolize troublesome times ahead followed by goodness
- White clouds symbolize very good fortune to come
- Yellow clouds symbolize upcoming obstacles
And, our Ancestor altar as well ...
Your blog posts are always so interesting.
ReplyDeleteThanks, CJ! Have a wonderful weekend and give the kitties a hug from me! :-)
DeleteI enjoyed this post - especially at this wonderful time of year. I only wish that autumn wasn't so brief! It's really amazing that your glass plate broke in half! Wow - I wonder what it signifies?
ReplyDeleteI knew nothing about crystal gazing,so your information was interesting and informative. Have a super Samhain and a great Halloween weekend!