Through a glass, darkly

You've heard of scrying using a crystal ball, of course.  The intro for my YouTube channel is an animation of my Bitmoji avatar gazing into a crystal ball and materialising the channel name. And I have three (yes, three) crystal balls about the house - one that my husband gave me as a birthday present, a small one that I bought for him to decorate his desk at work, and one that I got recently as a subscriber gift from a magazine.  I'm somewhat ashamed to say, however, that I don't have the patience to use them

Scrying with a crystal takes time and persistence. However, a crystal is just one way of getting in touch with your psychic senses.  Many people prefer a black (or dark) mirror.

A dark mirror is a curved (concave) surface that is painted black.  To use it, you meditate while gazing into a point on the curve, allowing your eyes to become unfocused.  Eventually,  visions will appear before your third eye.

Black mirrors used to be made from the curved glass that covered the face of old-time clocks or large pocket watches - and if you can find a suitable inexpensive clock in a junk shop then you might want to give it a try.  The glass was blackened by holding it above a candle flame and allowing the soot to coat the convex side, then stored in a shallow box.  If you preferred, you could make a flat mirror by blackening a piece of glass from a picture frame in the same way.  In either case, you had to be careful not to dislodge the soot.  I kept an eye open for a suitable piece of glass for years...and then I had a moment of inspiration.

I've loved playing with paper crafting for as long as I can remember, and paper craft has become very popular.  This means that there are a lot of products designed to separate us from our money on sale - and among them are these - 

PERFECT!

If you want to see how I made my black mirrors using the domes (and also a version using a Christmas bauble) then please do visit my YouTube channel - and if you feel so inclined, give me a like and subscribe.  You can get there from here - 

Bright Blessings, all!

Keren

(The Neighbourhood Witch)