Which do you perfer?

[lorifiya]

The three tools I know of are mirrors, crystal balls, and water. What does everyone perfer and why?

[habibidancer]

Fire also works as well, either a candle flame or a larger fire.

I prefer not to see my reflection, it's too distracting. So I usually use fire or water. I'm not very good at letting go of my Talking Head self though, so I'm not good at scrying. I usually use it as a form of meditation to try to train myself to let go of my talking self!

I especially like using a bowl of water under the moonlight, letting the moonlight reflect in the water.

[habibidancer]

by the way, black scrying mirrors are easy to make. buy a piece of glass in the size/shape you want and paint the backside with black paint. (glass paint works best). If you buy a neat frame you like, you can use the glass that comes with it, then you can put it back in the frame and it has it's own stand and everything.

[Lady Motevia]

I really don't have much of a preference. But when I use a crystal ball, I don't like ones made out of glass or are perfectly clear. It becomes too distracting to see everything on the other side as if you're looking straight through a window. My crystal ball is a beautiful light purple one I bought on eBay. It's lead and glass-free. I've used both water and fire scrying before and it just usually depends on the occasion and what's available at the time. I've been wanting for a few years now to do what habibidancer said and make a black scrying mirror. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Now that I actually have my own place to put stuff for my Craft, it's just one thing on my to-do list.

[lorifiya]

I perfer water to for the same reason, fire moves to much for me to focus.

[moonfyre]

I have never tried to scry before but would love to learn.