What's your favourite tool?

[Tylluan]

In your witchy work what is your favourite tool?

Being greedy I have two. One is my wooden pestle and mortar and the other is a little old run-of-the-mill kitchen knife. I'd be really upset if anything happened to either of them.

[Symandinome]

wand is my favorite tool

[JBRaven]

my runes.

[_Kaimira_]

my dagger

[Tasariel]

I'd have to say my tarot cards, if those count.

[Greek_Male_Witch]

Tarot and Athame, its just feels powerful, not as a weapon, as a tool always!

[Zili]

crystals and tarot

[Evanthe]

Probably runes or crystals.

[Fionn The Mutt]

My black mirror. I made it myself.

[Tasariel]

My black mirror. I made it myself.

I'm curious, how do you make one of those? Just because the ones in the stores look so... Pretty lol. I wouldn't think that it's something you can make.

[Symandinome]

Help on Creating a Scrying Tool

it is possible to use a regular convex magnifying glass lens. Polished carefully and laid on the black velvet, it
will work almost as well as the ball. Whichever you use, ball or lens, keep it purely for your scrying. Let no one else use it or even handle it. Keep it wrapped in a cloth (its black velvet or a piece of black silk) and do not
permit sunlight to strike it. It is traditional to "charge" the crystal by holding it up to be struck by the light of the full moon, once a month. A black gazing mirror seems to work better for some people than a crystal. It is not difficult to make one for yourself. You need a piece of glass, free of flaws and imperfections. Make it opaque by coating one side three times with asphaltum. To make the asphaltum stick to the glass, first clean the glass well with turpentine, then lay on the asphalt with a camel-hair brush. A much easier method is simply to spray the back side of the glass with a good black enamel paint (it may not seem very magickal, but don't forget, the mirror is merely the focal point for your concentration.

The actual "images" are projected by your powers; they do not come from within the mirror, or crystal, itself). A
concave glass is the ideal. It is sometimes possible to find a convex glass from an old clock-face, in an antique
store, and simply reverse it so that it is concave, Place the glass in a frame. The shape is not important:
round; oval; rectangular; square. Carve, or paint, onto the frame the names of the Lord and the
Lady, in runes or one of the other magickal alphabets.

As you are doing this—indeed, throughout the whole operation of making the mirror— concentrate your thoughts on the purpose of the mirror ... the projection of scenes from the past, present and future.

Consecrate the mirror in your circle, using any standard tool consecration.

keep the mirror wrapped in a black cloth. To give you an easy start to scrying, before or making a mirror, try it with a glass of water. Just take a regular, clear water-glass and fill it with water. Gaze into that in the same way you would a mirror or a crystal ball. You shouldn't be straining your eyes. Gaze naturally and let your eyes blink normally. It should work quite well.

[Tasariel]

Thanks Sym! That makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it!

[Symandinome]

no problem