Divination by utilizing a crystal ball: Spheromancy involves the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc.

Spheromancy, or crystal gazing, may be used by practitioners, sometimes called "readers" or "seers", for a variety of purposes including predicting distant or future events, to give character analysis, to tell fortunes, or to help a client make choices about current situations and problems.