Pendulum appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
Ritual tools
Pendulum
Pendulum is an air ritual tool in the Modern Western tradition, traditionally made of crystal, metal and wood. It is used for yes no questions, finding lost objects and testing food. It is aligned to the third eye chakra and throat chakra.
The pendulum is read through the ideomotor response; the tradition treats the swing as an index of the unconscious or of a spirit, and the corpus records the practice without claiming a mechanism.
Correspondences
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Yes no questionsFinding lost objectsTesting foodDowsing
Details
- Traditional Material
- CrystalMetalWoodChain
- Keywords
- Yes noDivinationIdeomotorDecision
- Cleansing
- MoonlightSaltSmoke
- Divination Method
- Pendulum
Divination methods
Methods vary in how canonical they are: tarot, runes, ogham, I Ching, geomancy and Lenormand are closed systems with their own corpus files, while scrying, tasseography and the rest are practices with regional or personal vocabularies. The corpus records the method and points to the system file where one exists.
Correspondences
Practice
- Tools
- Pendulum
Nature and meaning
- Category
- Oracular
Details
- Summary
A weighted bob on a chain is held over a chart or question and its swing read as yes/no or as an index of unconscious response.
- Method
- Establish the yes/no swing first, and do not ask the same question twice in one sitting.
- Best for
- Yes noDecisionDowsingIdeomotor
- Keywords
- Yes noDecisionDowsingIdeomotor
- Origin
- Modern western
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- British Cunning Folk Tools
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