**challenge entry **
This might be thinking completely outside the box and maybe its completely off track but here goes. So after saw for week the idea of scrying my envitonment itself to see what messages my home or spirits or energy in home might be teling me. Was thekr patterns was there needs unmet, were there energy clogs or spaces needing cleansing . Was i needing some lil TLC in spaces or did i need some TLC because of how things been lately. Another saturday in and out of consciousnrss all day n id debated what to do for challenge but i decided, yep maybe this was what was going to try.
Maybe sit in each room for a while and look and see and feel whats going on in tgat room. What messages were coming through. What areas felt stagnant. I knkw my altar needs as freshen up for sure n that shows respect to clan n myself. But also looking for patterns in the home where ive been so busy maybe they have been neglected. Im just surviving. But slowely this humpty dumpty is showing the signs of broken inside around her. Clothes constantly falling aparr and not replaced, no time to cleanse or clean space, energy or crystals, running out of food all the time. Wirking so hard ive gone through a whole packet of caffeine pills and half paracetamol with caffeine in them plus coffee just to not black out at work. I feel much like a leaf being blown around in the winds of chaos and change and storms amd disaster never getting a chance to stop and ground myself propwly anymore and just observe and see whats going on and maybe make plans based on what i seeā¦ esp when im barely getting through the day. So as im off work for a few days ( boss worked hard to try get my days bavk off fulltime) im going ro start in the home and my home environment to see what is goimg on around me. Even if just going into each room and spending some time maybe with candke or inscence or jusr be in room and observe the room, energy etc and see what comes to me, then if i feel a room needs a cleanse or change or if i need to replace sometging. Maybe make a plan. Im still waiting on a full week of pay from nearly 2 weeks ago. So im limited esp as now they changed system without twlling anyone on how to raise flag on pay issue and got told Friday afternoon but eveb then boss still wasnt sure what head office meant, but shed been under impression it had been fixed, but apparemtly ive now got to go raise a tocket n wakt for them to sirt out their mistake n im on a weeks wage for two weeks and all my clothes etc falling apart n i still need foodā¦ but in the mean time i can look at whats going on in my home and see wgat i need or whats happening in my home and maybe ill have something on hand alrrady that can help ie cleamsing energy with inscence or essential oils etc, maybe cleaning up or sorting altar. Im still pretty exhausted. So light duties today for self care. I can scan my body enough to know that much.
Maybe scrying an environment or even scryuing own body to see what see and messages there is off tge mark for this challenge so sorry if it is. I see it a bit not looking for flaws but looking for places thst maybr veen neglected and need self care. Scrying to me is looking unto someyhing like flame, warer or space n seeing whar patterns orvmrssages might see.
I was tempted to scry a layout of cards for this one lol, we know i love me cards but i thought id yry this one esp as it seems to be needed. I do feel my home n self has been neglected a bit n as a cottage witch as i feel maybe i connect to at the moment the home is my santuary n place practice magic most. If the home feels off it feels wrong. Also im not sure why n mayve its totally unrelated but the craving for making choc swirl cheesecake has been on my mibd. I have cream cheese but not had energy to maje crackers even. But maybe there is something kitchen witchery i can do with that if my kitchen needs some thing done in there so that i can do more thab just maje protein shakes as thars all i can manage past two daysā¦ id like to do some cooking n do more magic in cooking but i barely have strengrh or energy to make a shake yet alone much else. My home feels off n i feel maybe it is just exhaustion. Maybe i need another day to recoop before try too much but something definatly feels ofg in mu unit/ācottageā maybe its me, maybe its just thst energy come home with after all the weeks of crapā¦ n built up. but maybe grounding in 'scryung my enrionment ā ( and even myself) might help see wgereci can fix things or any messages need ot things need to do esp when finally get paid. Its been so long that my next fortnight pay is due to go in this week n only got paid 1 week the previous oneā¦ but maybe thjs is a start. . It might be unorthadox form of scrying. Like looking throygh the looking glass to see whats reflected back but i am a little bit weird lol and it jist felt right in this situation and needed. I hadnt realised just how barely i was holding togetger or how much my home felt off till today that i decided yes i need to do this. Hopefully its not too far off fhe matk for this challenge. I might just need to break the spaces of home up for each scrying session so i cam see whats going on in each space. Im not sure if i can do it by finding centrap spot n doing whole unit in one as wont be able to see full unit thar way.
Well said. I have been caught into this trap
For those who work with crystal balls - Iām curious, what would you consider an ideal size is for a crystal ball and what do you think is smallest that you would feel comfortable working with?
For me I go on how the ball feels when I handle it, good to buy from a shop for that. Mine isnāt large, itās fits in the palm of my hand. There was a bigger one that was just Ā£2 more but didnāt feel right so I went with the little one. 
Thatās a beautiful crystal ball reminds of the one Jareth had in the labyrinth. 
I have 2, well more than that if you count my crystal spheres I supposeā¦ but they all fit inside the palm of my hand. The crystal & cracked crystal ball that I have for scrying are about that size, I just havenāt tried it yetā¦ one of my apprehensions I suppose. 
Hubby went a bit over board on my crystal ball. Itās the size of a bowling ball and extremely heavy. If I were to drop it, it would go through the floor. I keep it it my bedroom with a purple cloth over it. There was a warning on the box saying if the sun hits it, it could start a fire. Iām not taking any chances
Iām going to work with it today, but I wish I had a smaller one.
**challenge entry 2 **
Ok yeah couodnt help also givibg scrying a full spread of tarot lol bit hard to see on screen shot esp small screen but i thought give it a go, but as laying all cards after mixing had to place eaxh one n a few went side ways oops. But will see if can pick up any messages from this method even if the screen shot iyself hard to see maybe in app can gove it easier go as long as i dont move cards too much trying to zoom in and out lol
This is book of shadows as above deck app incase ppl wonfering. Its hust the one that stuck out when was choosing as as i shuffled cards i spoke domething like
āHelp me see what is here
Help the message to be clear
Help me see what i must know
Help the cards wisdom showā
Or something along those lines. Maybe order of how said it different but basically was my chant/spell as shuffled.
The size of a bowling ball lol that awesome!! I would love to see it. Iāve been looking for a crystal ball myself I would love one that big but Iām afraid itās a little out of my price range. It sounds like your husband did a great job.
I am going to use it today and will take a pic before I start. Seriously, this thing is way to big. If you drop it on your foot, you will never walk again and then thereās the fire hazard. Lol!
Weekly Challenge Entry
This ball and I donāt get along. I cleansed my space with a mug wort bundle. Itās supposed to help with divination and I lit a purple candle for psychic protection. I think Iām going about this wrong. I need to be in a pitch black room with no color around except maybe a candle. I stared into that ball for 30 minutes trying to not get motion sickness. Lol!
Fabulous set up, I love your board in the background
Thank you, itās an altar cloth that I hung on the wall.
Oh wow 
itās stunning the whole space is enchanting Thank you for posting itās an incredible crystal ball! 
Thank you. I definitely have a smaller one on my wish list. This one is a pain to move around.
I just moved the ball to its normal resting place. I pick up the ball and place it on the bed. It wonāt roll off because itās heavy it sinks in the mattress. Then I pick up the stand a place it on the dresser. Then I place the ball on the stand and cover it with the cloth and forget about it. Lol!
Challenge Entry
Part of this spell was inspired by Dragon Tears from the new game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Without spoiling anything from the storyline, Dragon Tears show you the past. I made my own Dragon Tears from rain water and asked Naelyon, leader of the Elemental Water Dragons, to bless them. I poured them in a cauldron and said, āWater, water from the sky, show me something from a past lifeā. For the first ten minutes, I didnāt see anything, but then I started something that looked like smoke.
Wellā¦ this image opened the floodgates, so to speak, and sent me a rush of images, like a video behind fast forwarded. I was finally able to understand a dream that I have only had once but never forgot. I once mentioned in another post that when I was growing up, I was very, very, very scared of fire. This has led me to believe that I had died in a fire in another life. The aforementioned dream was one of an orange, rumbling world. Iām sure now. that that the fire was caused by an earthquakes. The images were beginning to upset me and I found myself yelling in my head, āStop! Stop! Stop!ā This was the first time something in my Craft had left me feeling this way, but almost three years in, this was bound to happen eventually. I cleansed everything with Selenite, Black Tourmaline, and then a grounding ritual with Orbron. My cats slept with me that night for some extra protection. Itās taken me a day or two to process and write about it.
I donāt think Iām going to scry to learn more about any of my past lives any time soon. I think the reason I didnāt see anything at first is Naelyon was trying to tell me I might not like what I see. Part of me wants to leave the past in the past and another part of me is too curious to learn who I was and what lessons I can take with me and leave behind as my part of my spiritual journey.
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Blessed Be! 
Weekly Witch Challenge Entry for Amethyst:
I chose to use smoke scrying, for a do love my incense collection. I used two sticks of incense, which is my norm. I used a scent called Goddess because that seemed appropriate on a Monday.
For a while, I just watched the smoke, but I didnāt see anything except for maybe a pornographic image or something rod-looking. LOL! Funny, but Iām being serious, thatās what I saw.
So after watching the smoke for a while, I decided to do it like a pendulum and see if it would answer simple yes and no questions. Eventually, I figured it out and asked if I had a cold. Nope. Do I have covid? No. Do I have allergies? Yes, it dipped down and even made a y image in the smoke.
I asked it a few more personal questions that I wonāt know till later on if It got right or now. Weāll see. But it was interesting sitting there watching the smoke. It made all sorts of wonderful, lacy patterns.
