# Crystal Ball on Wooden Stand

> An eight-centimeter sphere of flawless optical glass in a turned hardwood cradle, clear enough to hold the whole room upside down at its heart. For scrying, or simply for gazing.

Price: 58.00 USD · in stock

## About
Dim the lamps, let the candle settle, and look. Within this polished sphere the whole room shrinks and turns upside down, a bright little world at its center.It is optical glass rather than natural quartz, a choice that keeps it perfectly clear, free of the veils and inclusions that cloud most genuine crystal orbs, and considerably more affordable. It rests in a small turned hardwood cradle shaped to its curve.The crystal ball has become the very image of scrying, though gazing into a reflective or transparent surface is far older than any one material: still water and polished obsidian served the same purpose in earlier centuries. Folklore says the gazer's eye should soften and unfocus, letting the mind wander rather than search, until something rises unbidden from the depths.DetailsEight-centimeter optical-glass sphereTurned-wood cradle, stand includedSold as a curiosity; no medical or scientific claims are madeHow to useKeep it on a shaded shelf or table, out of direct sunlight. A clear sphere focuses light exactly as a lens does and can scorch fabric or paper left beneath it.What rises in the glass, if anything does, is your own. Bring it home and see.