What do you use your pendulum for?

Do you use it to ask it questions, or to communicate with spirit, to find things like lost items or even people?

I ask questions when I feel I need some guidance or confirmation on a decision Im making. Then, on the odd occasion I have used it when spirit has come to me for quicker communication as I cant hear spirit.
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Up until recently, I used my pendulum to ask questions. But, since spirit doesn't seem to want to co-operate for some reason, it is resting in a drawer in the living room.

Oh dear!! I dont use mines often but I always have it on my Alter ready.
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1antique wrote:Up until recently, I used my pendulum to ask questions. But, since spirit doesn't seem to want to co-operate for some reason, it is resting in a drawer in the living room.

Have you tried cleansing it?

I have used the Pendulum for a variety of reasons.

The first time I was ever introduced to a pendulum was when one of my friends showed me how to use a pendulum to show how many children I had in my future and what gender they would be. So far, it is not wrong! Nor has it been wrong to anyone one I have tried it on.

After learning to use the pendulum I have used it to help answer questions that have been on my mind at that time. Now I use it to help confirm I'm in contact and hearing what is coming to me.

I have learned that I cannot use the pendulum in trying to predict things. Because for me, when I try to play games like choosing a color of card or suite of card it just refuses to answer. I have used it to try and help others find objects or myself but I'm not very good at asking specific questions apparently. I can ask, is it in a closet? It could say yes, but then I wasn't specific as to which closet! Or even if its a closet in my own house! Oh well.. practice makes perfect

I find my pendulum very useful! I ask a wide variety of questions for myself and for others. Plus it's great for finding lost items around the house. (my husband likes to misplace things)

Yes, I use a pendulum for finding things as well.

But I also use it to discern truth, such as information I am reading online about spiritual things or if someone claims something and I can't discern it's truth or not.

Aliunas wrote:Yes, I use a pendulum for finding things as well.

But I also use it to discern truth, such as information I am reading online about spiritual things or if someone claims something and I can't discern it's truth or not.

I have done this as well!

so can a pendulum be any weighted string? if you use it to discern truth, what is your control? wouldn't you be discerning whether you feel you can trust, say, me?

So if you are desperate for answers you can use a paperclip on the end of a string. Seriously!

I'm not entirely sure what you are asking. Is it how can you tell if its telling the truth? Well.. for me, I ask control questions to make sure I'm 'plugged in' so to say into the universal conscience. Control questions are questions you know the answers to. You can always ask a control question at any time during the session of using a pendulum. Although a few times, I have asked questions where the answer just seemed to far out there where I end up asking, "Is this just my vivid imagination?" or "Am I making this up?" If I'm clearly connected, the answer is "no" not my imagination. Sometimes is a matter of trust.

If I'm pretty even headed and not filled with anxiety or wanting certain answers, then the answers are usually always correct. There have been a few times where my emotions interfere and I get an incorrect answer.

When you are feeling like this ---> Probably not a good time to be asking questions to the pendulum

hi nova, my point is that will you not be getting an answer to how you feel[b]about me, say, rather than how i am?

sparkly wrote:hi nova, my point is that will you not be getting an answer to how you feel[b]about me, say, rather than how i am?

Hiya sparkly

This is how I understand the pendulum to work. It's your subconscious that gives you the answer. Therefore, it will always answer correctly those questions you know the answers to. Because it's actually you doing the answering.

So if I ask it if you are a genuine person, the answer is based on how I perceive you, rather than the truth.

What has been puzzling me just these last few days is why those who believe they are connecting to spirit or some divine pool of knowledge still use the pendulum by holding onto it. Why not remove any potential personal obstacle/filter by placing a pencil or ruler onto a table with most of it hanging off. Balance it vertically with a heavy object. Then dangle the pendulum onto the pencil. Wait until it is still, and then ask questions.

Doesn't that make more sense?

If anyone who does use it for spirit communication/divine knowledge, maybe you could share why you hold it (if indeed you do) - is there a reason it needs physical contact?

Love Squatch

thanks very much for all your insights squatch!




i think i will take your advice! and give it a go! yes, there was some stuff on sf about pendulums and lizzies and different people with different finding and i figured since it is a yes /no thing, one of them is wrong!!!!

I have actually tried to use the pendulum without touching it and just dangling. Doesn't work for me. Just sits there and unless I have some telekinetic ability, I'm sorely lacking in skill.

I'm not sure I can say that the pendulum always answers what I want to hear or know. Sometimes I ask wanting a certain answer and it answers the opposite way. I can be disappointed with the answers most definitely, but often the answer the pendulum gives is the right answer. And how can I have any opinion when I do session with the pendulum for someone I don't know? I don't have a developed opinion of them and usually they are pretty astounded at how accurate it is. Especially if they give me a control question like if they have any kids or not and I have no idea and the pendulum can accurately tell them, how many and what their genders are.

So if the pendulum is giving the answers from your own subconscious how is it, it can answer questions for other people I don't know?

The subconscious theory makes a lot of sense. I find my arm to twitch when using a pendulum, and makes the pendulum give me an answer. I would not doubt this is the revealing of an answer that was already bouncing around in your head. Come to think of it I only use a pendulum for reassurance on things, and the subconscious mind probably isn't as dull witted as our surface one. BUT we could receive messages through our subconscious mind through spirit. So I honestly don't know.

But I also think holding a pendulum gives us connection to spirit which is important. All though everything is connected, most definitely- I suppose we are more susceptible to receiving the messages... Or something xD

nova_spirit wrote:I have actually tried to use the pendulum without touching it and just dangling. Doesn't work for me. Just sits there

Hiya nova and all

That's actually what I thought would happen, based on my beliefs and expectations of the pendulum.

As for not answering what you want to hear, we often *know* what's good for us even if we don't acknowledge it.

nova wrote:And how can I have any opinion when I do session with the pendulum for someone I don't know?

This is why I am questioning my belief. How can this be?

Perhaps when tuning into the 'great pool of knowledge', we need to be "connected" more than purely our minds. Our minds often deceive us and so we need other senses to comfort and satisfy us?

Although I'm more open than ever, I'm still very dubious as to why the pendulum doesn't move without our physical touch. I still think we play a huge part in it - too much for my liking.

Love Squatch

I hadn't thought of using it without touching it, i'll give that a whirl sometime.

Ive not tried that either. That will be interesting!
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Soaring Bird

I use mine to talk to my angels, I hover it over a alphabet.

I use my pendulum for yes and no questions and answers but what a friend taught me is get some paper, put yes to the bottom and top, no to the right and left and in a circle write the alphabet and this way when spirit comes through the pendulum they can swing to a specific letter and spell out words.

Emma wrote:I use my pendulum for yes and no questions and answers but what a friend taught me is get some paper, put yes to the bottom and top, no to the right and left and in a circle write the alphabet and this way when spirit comes through the pendulum they can swing to a specific letter and spell out words.

In this thread
https://spiritualinspiration.forumotion.net/divination-discussions-f69/are-ouija-boards-bad-evil-t2294.htm

Post number 5 I make mention of doing such a thing as normally pendulums are very limited in the questions you can ask. Being just yes, no, or maybe, and indifferent.

Hello

HMMMM more like what DID I use mine for. I recently found it in a box of long forgotten goodies I have. Go back to me teen and early post teen year. NOT used in any a possitive way but kept as a memory that I never want to see that place again. I knew that I kept if all but til I moved into this house I be in now did I have the courage to know I could open the box.

I know that it was me that made the "tools" there work in the negative vibrations but I be wary on using them now for good. Might just dig a nice hole in the back yard and seal it for the future. Bless it with Light and say bye to it.

Lynn

I use my pendulum for yes and no questions and answers but what a friend taught me is get some paper, put yes to the bottom and top, no to the right and left and in a circle write the alphabet and this way when spirit comes through the pendulum they can swing to a specific letter and spell out words.

Isn't this basically a homemade ouija board, many who don't like ouija boards use this method with a pendulum imo there's little difference.