When you feel you have a sufficient grasp of indoor water scrying, you may want to try your hand at outdoor water scrying. Being able to water-scry outdoors is a convenient talent to have if you’re somewhere without your normal divination tools. You may find with experience you scry better outdoors. Outdoor scrying breaks down into two basic forms, scrying with moving water, such as a stream, river or sea, and scrying with still water, such as a pond, calm lake or even a bird bath. When water scrying outdoors you’re encouraged to first ask the local water spirits’ permission and make a traditional offering of a coin, a gold or silver earring to which you lost the mate, flowers or seeds. If the water isn’t polluted, you could collect it in a bowl and scry that way, but then you’re getting close indoor water scrying.
SCRYING WITH STILL WATER
Breathing method. Stand by the lake, pool, pond, or well. Close your eyes and take several deep, cleansing, focusing breaths. When you feel confident, open your eyes and gaze into the water, continuing to breathe steadily and slowly. Imagine your boundaries dissolving and flowing into the water and becoming one with it. Bright sunlight or moonlight is perfect for this, but even clouds can come into play because they create images too. If you’re not seeing images, start exhaling your intentions into the water with a sighing sort of breath. If you’re seeing an image in your mind’s eye, try exhaling it into the water to further develop there. You can do this sighing-the-image into the water with a whole string of images, if they’re really flowing into your mind.
Three Stones method. A still water scrying method from ancient Greece, it originally called for one square, one triangular and one round stone. I would venture to guess that the different shaped stones were meant to represent three different elements of the same question, but any three stones of the same size will do. This method consists of throwing a stone in the water, then allowing a picture to form in the ripples which result, a picture which fades as the ripples do. For more information, you throw another stone into the water then observe the picture in the wake of the resulting ripples. Repeat this with the third stone. If you need more information, you take up another set of three stones and continue in the same manner.