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🌹Pendulum Protection & Safety🌹

Pendulums are a fantastic tool. They can be used for divination, or to communicate with your deities and your spirit guides. However, what a lot of witches don’t do is protect and shield their pendulums. Pendulums, when used, can pretty much invite anything that wants to to come communicate with you– even if that entity isn’t so pleasant.

I’ve compiled a few ways I like to stay safe and guarded from anything that isn’t what I want to communicate with!

✨DO’S AND DONT’S✨

⭕️DO cast a circle for long conversations/sessions with your pendulum.

❌DO NOT let it remain unguarded for long periods of time.

⭕️DO keep it in a blessed, shielded, and personalized space!

❌DO NOT leave it hanging out in the open (yes, even if it’s on your altar) for long time periods.

⭕️DO create a little travel pouch for it when you go places with it! Personally, for my spirit guide Sandalphon, I have a cute pouch for him with his grid on it. It’s full of his favorite crystals, salt and rosemary, as well as a few protection sigils.

❌DO NOT let your pendulum be unprotected when you travel outside of your designated safe space (I.E.: a saged/cleansed room or home).

And remember, if the energy you’re getting off your pendulum seems off, or it doesn’t answer correctly to question only your guide or deity would know, ask it this question– “Would you lie to me?” It is a binding question that many lower-to-mid negative entities cannot answer “no” to. If it says yes, immediately put your pendulum in a container with holy water, salt, rosemary, etc. Keep it there for a full 24hr cleanse before using it again.

Safe divining, and blessed be!

biwitched:

(aka the biwitched guide to using a pendulum)

What is a pendulum? most of the pictures you’ll see on tumblr show pointy crystals on a chain. but any weighted object with a string can turn into a pendulum! my broke self uses a metal ring on a string! 

Pendulums can be used for divination, and/or connecting with spirits, entities, deities etc. 

How does it work? (this is pretty much just my theory but hey) a pendulum works by tapping into your energy, and consequently the energy of the world around us! when you ask a question, it will give you an answer based on which way the energy is headed at that specific moment (which means it’s not always right, our world is so changeable) 

When you’re doing readings for yourself, I find at least, it taps into your subconscious, it can be very enlightening! 

I’ve also heard when you’re doing readings for yourself, it moves from micro-pulses in your fingers so if someone has a source on that, cool. 

If you are using a pendulum to contact another entity, that entity’s energy will be influencing the pendulum’s swing. 

How do I use one?

1. Before I do any divination or energy work – I get into the zone by opening my chakras, you can just meditate if you prefer !

2. Hold the end up the pendulum’s string or chain in between your thumb and forefinger

3. If this is your first time using your pendulum, you will have to program it:

• ask a series of simple yes or no questions to which you know the answer (e.g. are my eyes brown, do i like cats, am i eighty years old) 
• pay attention to what the pendulum does for yes questions and no questions
• try the same thing with true/false statements
• now you have a sense of how your pendulum answers questions (e.g. my pendulum swings away from me for a no, and side to side for a yes. some people’s pendulums swing clockwise/counter clockwise!)

4. You’re ready to pendule! (making that the official verb)

If you want, you can use a pendulum board! It is a small board with letters and/or numbers. You may be able to spell out a word! (works best with pointy pendants.)

Troubleshooting:

pendulum is not moving?

• sometimes movements are really subtle, don’t discount any slight movement!
• you may have to wait longer, it could be mulling over an answer
• there could be an energy blockage, try cleansing your pendulum (or yourself!)
• your pendulum might not want to answer, best to move on to a different question, or a take a divination break!

inaccurate answers?

• practice makes perfect, i’ve been doing this for 6 years! and i was pretty crap when i started
• word your question differently or try wording it as a statement your pendulum can agree or disagree with
• are you suuuuuure it was wrong? things don’t always turn out the way you expect them to – you may look back a year later and realize the pendulum was right, you just couln’t see it at the time
• sometimes, you’re just wrong – it’s okay

hands shaky/worried you’re moving it yourself?

• steady your arm on a table, chair, and just let the fingers holding your pendulum hang off the edge!
• if you’re confident in your energy skillz you can try hanging it from an object, put your hands underneath or either side and focus your energy on it! 
• trust yourself and your intuition friend

If nothing is working

• “program” your pendulum again (some days I have to do this between every question)
• try a different pendulum! if it’s a crystal – maybe you aren’t connecting well! Maybe even make your own (like my circle on a string) you may connect better with it!
• today just might not be the day, don’t fight it – your pendulum is your friend

and remember major life decisions are best made with careful thought, planning, and research, not pendulums!!!!