Every Saturday this month I'll be sending you on a journey over to the Samhain's Sirens Blog to see my entries for the Amazing Craft-tactular!!

You'll see things like this!!

Photo Credit - Photographer & Artist - Renee Olson

There will be a wonderful how to post on creating a particular craft and then a wonderful giveaway!  So head over to Samhain's Sirens page and check it out!

Namaste & Blessed Be!!
Sosanna

Welp It's been a while since I blogged about the scrying. What have I learned?

I have no patience. I have very little attention span and I get bored really easily.

I spent a few hours, not many, trying to figure out how it all worked. Reading was fine and I enjoyed that but when it came down to actually finding the time to "STOP" moving and sit down to do the work, I failed miserably.

So, I'm not a scryer. I tried the mirror, which according to Hubby I had limited success with. I was able to answer a few of his questions with something that he had asked with something that seemed to form an answer anyway. It was really very hazy to me, nothing solid.

I then tried my lovely crystal ball from Pagan Stuff Cheap. It looks great! And probably works great too, for someone who will sit down and do it. I couldn't really see anything in the crystal. It does look fabulous on my alter tho.

Photo Credit - Renee Olson

So I believe that my calling may not be necessarily related to divination, perhaps I'm more of a crafty witch. I've been working on my wreaths lately and finished quite a few of them. Along with Hubby's wands and dream-catchers; I think we have the Pagan decorating down to a science.

Photo Credit - Renee Olson

You can see more of my crafty wares here in this Facebook Album. I do make crocheted afghans, quilts, dog blankets, baby blankets and all sorts of other things for sale. I will also custom make items, if you'd like a wreath/blanket with a specific color scheme or what have you. I do not have an Etsy shop, so I just use email and Paypal for purchasing.

Feel free to contact me if you'd like to buy any of these items.


Till next time...

Namaste & Blessed Be
Sosanna
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My crystal ball has arrived! I'm so very excited. I want to thank Snowy of Eye of Nuit (Paganstuffcheap.com) for keeping me posted through the whole process.

The one I wanted was on backorder so I had to wait. But it was really worth it. I love it. I plan to cleanse it in the full moon and begin work with it immediately.


And a special thanks to Kallan for introducing me to this great shop through one of her blog giveaways!

Happy Scrying everyone!

Blessed Be!

Sosanna
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My email box lit up today with a wonderful message from Pagan Stuff Cheap. My order was shipped! I'm so excited. Sadly the crystal ball I wanted is on back order. On Sunday I got a email telling me that I could wait for it or cancel my order. The ball is made out of Alexandrite and it looks soooo nice. I just had to wait for it.



Next I collected my scrying journal. It's a nice purple binder I found at the thrift store and I filled it with loose leaf paper. I'm very excited about it. I ordered a crystal point necklace with crystals across the front to try to use as a pendulum. We'll see how that goes.

I'm still on the hunt for my little black bowl. I was really surprised at how hard they are to find. Trust me though I WILL find it.


Lastly my dearest hubby made me a wonderful scrying mirror. We found the directions in the book because at the time of publishing apparently buying black mirrors was unheard of. (Makes me wonder if I need a more updated book) LOL


So my tools are nearly complete....

Chapter 7's first exercise is to take something that you have readily. A Key, a book, a tube of chapstick and hold it in your hand. Visualize it. Then close your eyes and try to recreate it. Try to make it viewable from all side. Turn it around, upside down and so forth. I've been doing that a little each day. It's very interesting and oddly enough pretty easy to do. I hope that's a good sign.



So off to get my non magikal day going. Can't wait for my new supplies to arrive.


Blessed Be
Sosanna
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So chapters 5 & 6 are talking to us about the working place.
Basically the author reviews what your area should be like. Fill the room with sights sounds and smells that are calming. Mozart is the suggested the music. I think that I might lean toward Reiki healing music more so but I understand the thought process here. Card tables and chairs with out arms make sense as you'll need to be able to slide up close to the table and peer down directly into the scrying medium.

Next, in Chapter 6, the author addresses the need to maintain a scrying journal. Keeping a records of the date, time and length of the session are common entries. Phases of the Moon as well as weather can have a significant effect on your level of psychic readiness and those are recorded as well. Electronic recordings are fine as long as you can concentrate without worrying about when the tape is going to run out. I think that I will probably lean towards a more traditional method of just a notebook and pen to see how it goes.

The next chapter starts the scrying exercises. I'm going to read on those further but wait to blog on them until I actually have my scrying materials in my hot little hands to practice. I'm excited to see how it goes.

I've looked at a couple of items that interest me for scrying. eBay has a wide selection of scrying items including mirrors, pendulums and crystals. However "Cheap Pagan Stuff" has a wonderful lavendar colored crystal ball that I just might like to try.
And with their special coupon code ILOVEPSC I can get an additional 10% off my order.

I know I want to pick up a crystal, a stand, a bowl and a mirror. I'm going to try to find the bowl at the thrift store. I like to reuse when I can. I know that the mirror and the ball will be harder to find because of my area that I live in.


So that's the first part of the book. I'm actually pretty proud of myself that I sat down and read the six chapters and was able to retain it. Thanks to a suggestion from Kallan, blogging about it actually helped me retain a lot more of the information. I'm extremely excited to get started. Off I go in search of my medium.

Thanks for reading...


Blessed Be
Sosanna
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So I'm really liking this book. So far so good.

Scrying for Beginners

Chapter three talks about "Who can become a Scryer". Apparently this author feels that everyone has the potential to be a scryer. He says, it's no different than a star basketball player. That player is born with the potential to be a great player, however without daily practice and dedication to his craft, his potential will go unrealized. There is the thought that if you're able to be hypnotized you're able to be be scryer. It is thought that the act of being hypnotized is more of the subject hypnotizing themselves as apposed to the hypnotist actually preforming the act. This is extremely interesting to me because I have always longed to be hypnotized. I'm not sure I can be, and have never tried.

The author goes further to say that if you're a person who has seen visions or had flashes of the past, present or future appear to you, must like one of my followers commented on my last post; that you too can more than likely be a scryer. Having several "visions" over a lifetime instead of just a couple when a family member is in danger will make one more successful as a scryer. That's not to say that with only a couple of visions you cannot do this.

Much like that previous comment I mentioned before, apparently children below 10 years of age have the perfect mind for scrying. In fact the author says that many magicians and performers in years past would employ adolescent boys to gaze into the crystals and much like a hypnotist the performer would direct the child to look for a particular thing, thus producing the visions for him/her.

Even though some of the more famous seers were male, this books says that the majority of scryers are female.

http://www.josephinewall.co.uk/moon_god.html

Chapter four is about preparation. Getting ready to scry. I found it interesting that this author adds a prayer from the bible as the first way to "cleanse" yourself before beginning a session. Quickly on the next page however he states that if it seems too Christian for magical work you can use any number of Pagan or Wiccan prayers/blessings/cleansing to prepare.

A ritual bath, a pair of loose fitting comfortable pants and a nice loose shirt seem to be the costume of choice to get into the right frame of mind for scrying. Tight shirts, or itchy skin will break your concentration and you won't be able to devote the entire time to scrying. The author recommends setting up a special place, where your tools will be available for you to access, you can sit comfortably and you can be alone. Night time is suggested as the best time to scry as the night air lends itself to relaxation and as we already expect, night is when many witches cast their circles. He goes on to suggest not to wait too late in the evening as this heighten state of relaxation might lend one to drift off to sleep which is not good for scrying at all.

So Chapter Five is next. It's about finding a place to scry. I've been thinking about the tools I want to try and I think that I might collect a number of different bowls, mirrors and crystals just to see what speaks to me. I'd like to be able to try all the different exercises in the book with a different tool combination to see if I get any different results.

I'm extremely excited about this and can't wait to see if I can truly "See".



Blessed Be!
Sosanna
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As some of you may know I'm extremely interested in scrying; I've always felt that I was able to "receive" messages from those close to me who are far away. For example, ever time my daughter who was in college across the country craved fried chicken I would crave the same thing for days and days. Only to find out from her at the end of the week that she was doing nothing but eating fried chicken all week. If she was having a rough time and feeling unhappy I was able to feel her sadness.

I've had this connection with other people as well. The hubby sends me his pain. Yes, I know that's strange but that's what we call it. I know the difference between my own headache and the one that comes around because he has one. When he broke his ankle, I had a sore leg for weeks. At that time he was up in Virginia working, we didn't see each other but only once a week but talked on the phone daily.

And of course like many of you Witches out there, you can feel it, when something is not right. I call it "a disturbance in the force".

So... back to the book.

This book, Scrying for Beginners, was published in 1997 by Llewellyn Publications. The author, Donald Tyson, is not only an expert on scrying but also is a Scryer. He opens the book with an introduction about his Grandfather who was a circus acrobat and strong man before moving to Nova Scotia. Donald believes that he may have gotten his gift from this very same grandfather who after moving to Nova Scotia read playing cards, tea leaves and palms for anyone who wanted/needed help. He never took payment and only asked that they leave what they felt was appropriate at his door. I think that is really cool. I know many of us need to make a living and pay the bills, but to be able to practice your craft, to help others and not have to rely on it for day to day payment is wonderful.

Chapter 1 goes in to discussing what exactly scrying is. For me, before I picked up this book I always thought that scrying consisted of either a mirror, a crystal or water. To my surprise apparently Dowsing is a type of scrying but the Tarot is not. He goes on to explain how the moon is closely connected to scrying. AGAIN, I'm amazed because I am certainly a moon child. On one of our first dates, there was a huge moon in San Diego and hubby ran up to the house, grabbed my hand, hurried me out to the street and said, look, I got this for you, turned me around and I saw the biggest moon I had ever seen. I wear moonstone jewelry and always follow the phases.

Chapter 2 talks about the psychological mechanism of scrying. The author talks about how our consciousness blocks reception of scried information. That's why its rare to get those moments of "psychic knowledge" when you're not looking for it. Sometimes you may have a vision, or see a flash of something, but these are rare. The act of scrying is where we tell our mind to reach out into our unconsciousness find a particular bit of information and bring it to our conscious mind. The author compares this to being hypnotized. Scrying he says, is a form of self hypnosis where the scryer uses an object, a crystal, water, or smoke to try to get back to that same point of consciousness where the mind is open to messages from the unconscious mind. Much like a post hypnotic suggestion.

Interesting huh?

Apparently many famous scryers or seers like Carl Jung and Nostradamus used water as way to scry.


So that's it. Chapters 1 and 2. I'm very excited to see how this is going. The author says he has several exercises to help get your mind ready for scrying. Anyone can be a scryer he says. I'm excited about that. Sometimes my mind goes really really really (yes I needed three really's) fast and I'm hoping that sitting down with whatever tool I eventually decide to use and just concentrating will help me slow that mind down and open myself up to more information. More positiveness and more knowledge.


Blessed Be
Sosanna
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