Guest Author - Kim DeLeary

By making your own looking glass, you will have a greater connection with the occult tool for use in divination than if you had bought it from someone else. Making a looking glass is simple. Your looking glass will either be used with a liquid or without a liquid depending on your preferred style of scrying.

It is believed that by making your own occult tools, you add your personal energies to the object. By adding your own energies or vibrations to your magic tool, it can give an extra boost to the tool for use in occult practices. By making your own magic mirror, you can also give the glass a wash in herbs that could help with any psychic powers.

To make your own looking glass, there are several considerations to be made first. The looking glass that can be made from these instructions is made by painting a curved piece of glass with black matte paint on either the outside or inside of the curve; if you intend on using the looking glass with liquid and then gazing at the liquid surface, you would paint the outside of the curve and if you intend on gazing at the outer curved surface of the looking glass you would paint the inner surface.

By answering these questions, you will be able to determine the type of looking glass for you:
Will you use water or not for scrying?
Where do you intend on scrying?
Where and how do you intend on storing your looking glass when it is not in use? Will it be set on an altar?
Do you want a scrying glass that can be held in your hands?
Will you be more comfortable sitting down or standing when you are scrying?
Will your looking glass be hung on the wall or be set on a flat surface when not in use?
Will you need a stand or a box, preferably lined in velvet, to hold the looking glass?
Will you have or make a frame for the looking glass that is used for dry scrying?

Whatever you have decided, get a matte black paint that will adhere to glass. You can find a piece of curved glass from your local hobby shop, clockmaker or watchmaker. Before you paint the glass, you may want to give the glass an herbal bath. Bay, celery, cinnamon, flax, grass, mace, peppermint, thyme and sage are some common things that correspond with psychic abilities that you could find in your kitchen. Dry the glass with a clean lint free cloth.

Begin painting either the inside or outside of your glass. Paint as smoothly as you can. You may put on however many thin layers it takes to get a fully covered surface or you can choose a number of layers to put on that you think will enhance the tool. Dry each layer before painting the next coat. As you paint the glass, keep checking the glass with a light behind it for missed or streaky spots. If you are not satisfied with your paint job when it is finished, start over again from after the optional herbal wash. When you are happy with your now thoroughly dry looking glass, it is finished and your looking glass is ready to use for divination.

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