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HATCHLINGS, WHAT’S MAMA MAGPIE’S MANTRA!?
WITCHCRAFT REQUIRES NOTHING! NOTHING NOTHING EXCEPT YOU!
Turn off and clean your phone. Use the screen as an obsidian scrying mirror!

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AAAAAND I have black pages (can be painted, mines are glued black paper) of my grimoire covered in contact paper (to make them shiny) and BOOM portable scrying mirror in your grimoire. I also plan on making a star map? To star scry in my mermaid grimoire too.

Be crafty folks, be crafty ❤👌

BAM! RESOURCEFULNESS, MOFOS!

Just water in a dark bowl, guys.

Or paint one side of a picture frame glass black, then when you turn it over the unpainted side is a black mirror.

Use a candle flame.

Or tea leaves in your cup. Can’t afford fancy loose tea? Cut open your cheap Lipton tea bag you swiped from a diner and just use that.

Scrying is one of the easiest forms of magic to DIY!

You definitely don’t need fancy, expensive scrying mirrors or crystals in order to scry! If you want them, that’s cool and you should spend your discretionary budget however you choose, but it’s not remotely necessary! 

I’ve got a $60 obsidian sphere these days because it’s beautiful and I love it to bits, but my first dedicated scrying tool was a $0.99 picture frame from walmart with black paint on the back of the glass. Before I had THAT I used a candle flame. All the suggestions above work, plus you can use the reflection of your own pupils in your bathroom mirror, a shard of a broken beer bottle you found on the side of the road, a stone in a ring, nail polish on your thumb. You literally just need a point to focus your vision on while you drop into trance. Reflective surfaces seem to work best in general with a few exceptions like fire-scrying, and people frequently find that dark reflective surfaces are preferable to light ones, but the only actual requirements for scrying is “a point upon which to focus your physical vision” and “the ability to drop into a trance state”. Heck, stare at a spot on your ceiling if you want, it can work. 

Honestly, my personal absolute favorite is… water in a dark bowl.

I got a black bowl at Family Dollar for a couple bucks. It is far and away my favorite scrying method.

I have a DIY black mirror that looks fancy (I inherited a nice turn-of-the-last-century frame). I have a little glass orb. But nah. I like water in my discount store black bowl.

It doesn’t have to be dark.

People scry by staring at walls and ceilings. By staring at trees.

Stare into a natural body of water under a New Moon if you wanna really get rekt.

Or gaze into your own eyes in the mirror for like 10+ minutes and tell me you don’t learn something about yourself.

This is shocking…. scrying is the least expensive form of divination I know!

You can scry in a bowl of water (free), smoke (free, potentially), fire (candle cost money, but can be super cheap), leaves (free and yes, leaf scrying is a thing), stars (free), and more. It’s literally just staring at patterns or reflective surfaces (ideally natural ones) and then going into a trance from that where you get the visions. Nature is free! Scrying is free!!

I personally use an obsidian sphere, but it only cost me $10… that’s not super expensive fam.

if you want the physical experience of glass + hand, turn your phone screen off and reflect some kind of single-pointed light in it

if you want something you can put in a frame (the painted glass method always bugged me because i could see the paint texture no matter what i did) go to Home Depot’s welding department, get a replacement welder’s mask glass for 5-10$. (as a bonus, if it’s a #14 or darker plate, it can be used to safely view eclipses)

I took a piece of a black plastic folder and cut it to shapd and shoved it behind the glass of a dollar frame. No texture, no problem. Total cost: $2.