Dowsing Pendulums

The Ancient art of dowsing has been practised throughout millennia, and the oldest evidence was found in a massive system of caverns in North Africa dated to be at least 8000 years old, known as the Tassili Caves. Among the many fascinating wall murals, there is a remarkable large wall painting of a dowser, holding a forked branch in his hand searching for water.

Also known as ‘water witching’, dowsing is a traditional art of divination originally used to find underground water sources, but most recently used for a wide range of other divinatory purposes.
Most common uses of dowsing are: seeking out hidden things like minerals, oil deep underground, locating lost objects, missing persons, sources of geopathic stress, and to diagnose illness.

Dowsing is done by using a forked stick or rods – mainly for the physical search of a site, or by using a pendulum – mainly for locating objects over a map or diagnosing illness.

How to use a Pendulum for Dowsing or Divination

Before you start using your pendulum consideration needs to be given to the purpose of the use. You should use your pendulum with care as if you ask the pendulum literally everything, it will erode your inner freedom; also, you should not believe all the pendulum answers and change your life because of it.

It is still not known why dowsing works, but it seems to be connected with our intuitive ability to sense vibrational energies. Someone using a pendulum to locate an object proceeds on the basis that he/she is able to perceive the wavelength searched for, whereas when asking a question a person taps in their subconscious, where answers are stored already – by concentrating on the question, the answer is brought to light from the subconscious.

Pendulum Exercises

Learning to Relax – Observe how your muscles feel when relaxed or tense, and the pleasant feeling of relaxed heaviness. As you became better and better at relaxing, you’ll also be able to progress further with your pendulum work.

Holding the Pendulum - Sit down at a table in a relax mode and conjure up an image in your mind. Lean on the table with the elbow and loosely hold the thread of the pendulum between your thumb and index finger (it is important to hold it loosely and not to be tense, or the pendulum will not be able to move). Do not practice for more than fifteen minutes, as the arm might start to vibrate and no successful results will be achieved.

Learning to Control the Pendulum – Imagine in your mind that the pendulum is making a YES movement (away from you and back towards you). Form a picture of this movement in your mind – the pendulum should also start to make this movement. At first this might only be a weak movement, but with practice it will became more noticeable.

Repeat the same for NO (left to right movement).

When formulating a question which is not asked clearly, the pendulum will move clockwise in a QUESTION MARK movement, or anti-clockwise, in an ATTENTION movement which indicates that the question cannot be answered as the answer is beyond our understanding.

In addition, there are two other movements:

- diagonal from top right to bottom left which means that the subconscious does not wish to answer a question
- diagonal from top left to bottom right, which means that the experiment should be stopped temporarily, for example due to tiredness

Pendulum Uses and Applications

The number of applications and uses of a dowsing pendulum is unlimited. Traditionally used to locate water and oil, the range of applications has now expanded to almost everything.

The unlimited number of choices makes it hard to describe, but here are some suggestions:

- as a form of diagnosis in healing (discovering illness, finding chakras, determining the right type of therapy, choosing the right colour in colour therapy)
- finding solutions to one’s problems
- in business life can be used to determine appointing employees, guiding business investments, finding the right way to approach your boss
- determining someone’s time of birth when it is not known
- locating persons and objects

Using a pendulum is not easy to learn and it takes time, but once mastered, we open ourselves to the world of our subconscious and all the mysteries that lie within.

Good luck on your journey!