what i wish i knew before i bought my pendulum: a thread

- literally anyone can do it. pendulums are probably one of the cheapest modern divination tools, and literally all you have to do is hold it.

- if you’ve ever been interested in tarot or divination in general, your baby step should be a pendulum. why? again, it’s very easy. like a magic 8 ball but one that’s accurate.

- pick pendulums based on what you’d enjoy holding, and the pendulum weight should be something either related to the questions (ie rose quartz for love ?s) or something universally useful. for instance, i mostly use clear quartz.

- train your pendulum to answer in a way that you’ll REMEMBER. i don’t know what happens if you attempt to “retrain” a pendulum, but i am glad i haven’t had to find out. stick with swings that you’ll remember how to read in time.

- don’t ask pendulums about marriage, sickness/death, birth, or politics. it is impossible to receive a nuanced and detailed answer with only four possible options. you will freak yourself out by getting just a “yes”, “no”, “maybe”, or “ask later”.

- don’t ask your pendulum QUESTIONS YOU ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER TO. you are wasting somebody (or something’s) time. trust yourself/your cards/your intuition/your “guides” if you have them.

- if you want details, instead of asking a bunch of carefully-phrased Y/N questions (which they take particularly well to), you might as well use tarot or inceptional/interrogations astrology. there’s only so much a swing can say.

- you probably won’t use your pendulum very often. you might think you’ll have so many questions to ask but after a while, you begin to realize that you know what you’re doing on your own. and that is not only great, but ideal.

happy swinging!