7 Important Steps How to Succeed with your Pendulum

Pendulums can be very useful tools but they can also cause you a lot of confusion too!

It is important to realise that this is not magic, it is actually you connecting deeply with your higher self, your energy self. So it is very important that you firstly understand how energy works before embarking on using a pendulum for answers and clarity. I suggest you join our free webinar "How to Learn the Language of the Universe" for a deeper understanding.

For now let's dive into what a pendulum is. It is simply a weighted object that is suspended from string or other medium. The idea is that the user can ask for guidance and the pendulum will answer by moving in certain directions. These directions are pre-determined by the user beforehand and are unique to them. For example a "Yes" for one person may be, that the pendulum moves in a clockwise circle, yet for another it may move forwards and backwards. It is therefore important to ensure that you have understood fully how to interpret your pendulum and why it is a good idea to not let anyone else touch it too!

Follow these steps to successfully use your pendulum.

Step 1: When you first buy your pendulum you must cleanse it. There are many ways to do this including running it under water, smudging it with sage, using Tibetan bowls or bells, placing it on a cleaning crystal such as Selenite. There is no right or wrong way, do what feels right for you!

Step 2: If your pendulum is made from a genuine crystal you will need to charge it. Depending on the crystal, you may wish to either bury it in the earth for a few days, place it under the moonlight during full moon, or place it on a Selenite charging plate. Again you will know what feels right for your pendulum. 

Step 3: Connect with your pendulum. This is a very important step and one many people skip as they get impatient and want to use it straight away. I recommend carrying it around with you for a least 5 days so that you can vibrate with it. It will pick up your energy because remember the pendulum is channelling your energy so do take time to connect with it. 

Step 4: Program your intention into it. Spend a good hour holding it and telling it what its purpose will be. For example, its purpose may be to tune into your Chakras and indicate which of these need attention to release blocked energy. You may want more than one pendulum for different purposes/intentions. I find this works well for me to have a number of pendulums at hand so that I can use a separate one for Chakra work, one for guidance and so forth. You may even have choose to have one for certain areas of your life, for example,  for Health/Wealth or Love and Relationships. Do what you feel is right for you.

Step 5: Now you need to know what movements and directions indicate what answers. I find it best to do this on a number of ways. Firstly ask your pendulum "What does the answer yes look like" then wait and watch how it moves. Does it go around in a circle, or does is it clockwise or anti-clockwise. Make a note of what is does. Then ask "What does the answer no look like" and again watch what it does. It may go forwards and backwards or side to side and again make a note of this response. Then ask "What does maybe look like". I then would wait a few hours and repeat this process again to ensure I have read the directions correctly.

Step 6: Prepare your space for your session. I recommend always using the same space to carry out your session. I suggest doing so by smudging the area with sage, lighting candles and adding calming energies of crystals such as Rose Quartz. You may also wish to use singing bowls or play some relaxing music.

Step 7: Get comfortable, sit on a chair with your elbow resting on a table. Hold the pendulum with your dominant hand with the string between your thumb and forefinger. Then ask your pendulum your question. It will give you your Yes, No or Maybe response, based on your pre determined movements from step 5. Make sure you ask closed questions that will give a Yes, No or Maybe answers. You can't ask it questions like "which job do I accept"?  Instead you ask it, "is moving to x Company the right thing for me"? 

If you require further confirmation, this is where the boards are invaluable tools. Many boards will have a Yes, No, Maybe or Ask again/Rephrase on them. So thinking about the question you asked and the response that you received, it's now time to clarify. So if you received a yes response, for example you could ask the board "was yes the right answer for me" and suspend the pendulum over the yes area.  If it moves as your yes would then you have your answer clarified. If the pendulum doesn't move when hovered over the yes, it's clear that the answer may actually be a maybe or rephrase question. So you need to rephrase it and ask again. Using the above example the question may then be rephrased to " is moving to X Company immediately right for me". There is a difference as you can see, as moving to X Company may be right but not at this time. 

In addition you may wish to call in the energies of any symbols on the board. For example if your board has angels on it, you may wish to invoke the help of your guardian angels. If it has an image of the moon you may wish to call in the energy of mother moon etc.