HERB SCRYING

Whether for yourself or if you are reading for another person you can use herb scrying and a simple divination technique.  Use clear water and sprinkle dried herbs on the surface. This gives you tangible external focus from which you can derive images. It is also a good transitory stage if you find pure water scrying unproductive.

• Fill a deep clear glass bowl slowly from a jug of water until it is just over half-full.

• While the water is still moving, drop on to the surface a handful of dried culinary herbs, such herbes de Provence, rosemary, basil or parsley that have reasonably large separate leaves.

• These will swirl round, giving an image or maybe several and if you add a few more herbs at a time you can keep the herbs swirling and new images forming.

• Use a tape-recorder as you and/or the questioner will be calling out many changing forms.

• The key is to keep swirling the water and making new images until you have seven or eight, or even more.

• Some people read the herb pictures, others the spaces between the herbs.

• Write down/say what each picture means to you (and the person you are working with) and then see how together the images add up to an answer to your question.

• Tip the divination water away either into soil or running water (a tap and sink will do) so that the energies will continue to flow.

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