Hamelyn
August 13th, 2003, 05:47 AM
So, I was at the dollar store. They had these glass-like orbs (with flattened bottoms) as paper-weights or random decor bits or something, and inside each was a colorful hue and a mass of bubbles.
I grabbed three that called out to me, and there in the store tried gazing into them. I like divining with busy things, so I can lose myself in the patterns and trace those patterns to the things I'm divining about. But anyway, that's not the point.
What I soon discovered was that the bubbles inside each seemed organized into a distinct shape to my perception. One is a green-tinted bottom with a mass of bubbles that looks like a willow or dogwood tree in a grassy field. Another green one looks like a hurricane around a bubble-less inner eye. The purple one seems to be more like a starburst, randomly tossed about and even stretched bubbles in some places, as though spinning around one small, barely-seen, perfectly centered and calm bubble.
I've started gazing into these paperweights and using these locations as meditative projecting zones, so to speak. I go to the purple galaxy to get a sense of the cosmos at work, the tree to relax and before bed to help sleep, and the hurricane one to stay calm in difficult situations by being in the eye of the storm. It's been a VERY interesting experience!
Any replies/similar experiences/ideas that branch off this line of thought?
I grabbed three that called out to me, and there in the store tried gazing into them. I like divining with busy things, so I can lose myself in the patterns and trace those patterns to the things I'm divining about. But anyway, that's not the point.
What I soon discovered was that the bubbles inside each seemed organized into a distinct shape to my perception. One is a green-tinted bottom with a mass of bubbles that looks like a willow or dogwood tree in a grassy field. Another green one looks like a hurricane around a bubble-less inner eye. The purple one seems to be more like a starburst, randomly tossed about and even stretched bubbles in some places, as though spinning around one small, barely-seen, perfectly centered and calm bubble.
I've started gazing into these paperweights and using these locations as meditative projecting zones, so to speak. I go to the purple galaxy to get a sense of the cosmos at work, the tree to relax and before bed to help sleep, and the hurricane one to stay calm in difficult situations by being in the eye of the storm. It's been a VERY interesting experience!
Any replies/similar experiences/ideas that branch off this line of thought?