A crystal ball reading is a very simple thing. It is known as scrying. Scrying, which is also known as crystal seeing or crystal gazing or as getting a crystal reading, is a mystical practice that involves looking for visions in a stone. 

Crystal balls are usually clear and translucent, but they can also come in many different colors. Some people are more comfortable reading a crystal ball that is black, dark blue, or another color. Some psychics reading a crystal ball also prefer to use pink ones made out of orange quartz because that type of crystal symbolizes love.

 

If the medium is a crystal ball, the visions may come from the tiny inclusions, seems or cracks. They can also be found in the cloudy glow within the ball under low light. One can even scry in the snow or ice if the sunlight is hitting it a certain way.

Scrying does not have to be done with just crystals. It can also be done with all kinds of different stones, glass, mirrors, water, fire, wine or smoke. Scrying has been used in many cultures as a means of divining the past, present, or future. There are many references to a crystal ball reading room through out history. A crystal cave reading used to be popular in natural rock formations where the psychic energy was conducted naturally through the geodes.

One old myth about scrying tradition was that young women, gazing into a mirror in a darkened room could catch a glimpse of their future husband's face in the mirror. If it were their destiny to die before they were betrothed, they would see a human skull.

The information from reading a crystal ball can be said to come from a number of different sources. Depending on the culture and practice, the visions that come when one stares into the crystal are thought to come from God, spirits, the psychic mind, the devil, or the subconscious. Some believe that the energies come from the angels, the higher self, or God.

Although scrying is most commonly done with a crystal ball, you can also use any smooth surface, such as a bowl of wear, a pond, a crystal, or even the polished surface of a human thumbnail. However, like other aspects of divination and parapsychology, it is not supported by mainstream science as a method of predicting the future, diagnosing ailments, or ghost busting