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Pendulums To Explore Our Focus

Pendulums to Gauge Energy Flow – One Woman’s Story of Coming To Dowsing

by Christine Hagey

Beginning one’s exploration of energy flow with a pendulum is as easy as hanging an object

from a string. Many people like to use crystals or gemstones as the suspended object. I have

tried a few different types of pendulums and have settled personally with a small bell on a simple

cotton string. Your needs will really determine the pendulum you are most comfortable with.

I personally need to have a very responsive pendulum in order to pick up the flows that I am

focusing upon and therefore find the heavier bobs to be cumbersome. Many people who dowse

like to use their pendulum to determine Yes / No answers to questions and in this case, any

desired pendulum could work and one with a point could be more ideal.

Allowing the Objects to Speak for Themselves

When I first started to look at energy flow by use of a pendulum I really just happened upon it.

I’d no idea that I was supposed to “program” my pendulum, nor that there was such a thing as

“dowsing”. So what I experienced was a new revelation. I found that when I suspended my

pendulum over an object – any object at all - it would start to move and create distinctive flows.

Circular and diagonal, counterclockwise circles and clockwise circles..star patterns and complex

patterns that involved elliptical, circular and diagonal flows in what seemed to be a type of

rhythm.

I also noted a vast range of intensity or degree of force with which the pendulum would move in

those patterns, sometimes so strongly moving the pendulum that it would literally fly out of my

hand and some so weak that I could barely note any movement at all. I came to realize that this

was life-force vitality being expressed verbatim and the range displayed was incredibly rich and

descriptive even without the accompanying rhythms. Putting the two together was like reading

a volume.

It was a totally captivating experience for me to glimpse and explore this wondrous new

world. Of course I stopped to think about how my hand and arm were providing the basis for

this (and thus it wasn’t all that scientific) however I realized that no matter what my hand and

self might be doing that there were distinctive differences from being to being and object to

object. I decided that it was worth my effort to take these movements at face value and see

where it would lead me. Thus was one of my largest leaps of faith and thus I launched myself

into the world of energy flow with a way of using pendulums that I have since discovered is

extremely unique.

It is perhaps not for everyone to use a pendulum as I do. It takes a passion to practice so much

that a type of detachment can begin to germinate. I have found that only then can the mind be

put to use in examining, measuring and correlating the flow results, and not in creating the

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flows. I find a pendulum to be a powerful tool that has allowed my mental capacity to branch

out in quests that would never have been possible in this plane using any other system of sight.

It also has helped me to better understand the ancient civilizations and the incredible depth of

energy flow knowledge they possessed and passed down to us. Through my own play of

tracing the subtle energy flowing around rocks and stones placed in shapes and patterns, I

realized that many of the basic graphic designs and shapes we retain from ancient civilizations

are diagrams of energy flow.

The Celtic triangle weave is such a flow diagram and this can easily be seen by taking three

small rocks and placing them into a triangle. Then, using a very lightweight pendulum, place it

close to one of the rocks and you may start to feel a slight “tug” that you can allow yourself to let

the pendulum follow…it is the flow current that is created by the 3 stones as it wends its way

around them in a never-ending rhythm. Even with my other sight capabilities (some

clairvoyance and such), I can’t see the invisible flow around the rocks but through a pendulum I

can *feel* it and chart its movement with ease.

I still remember how exciting it was when I expanded outwards from the concept of sensing

flows over or upon an object to viewing the flow between objects as well. I thus began to

create setups, such as from small stones placed in a circle , and would watch the interplay of

energy that was called into manifestation simply by their reacting and *relating* to one another.

It didn’t have to be stones. I remember walking around my house after this realization in

absolute awe that the chair next to the sofa were *relating* to one another and I could pick up a

live energy flow between them. I quite often couldn’t understand the flow I was picking up but

didn’t let that concern me. I would catalog it in my mind or a notebook and perhaps return to it

if I saw many other similar flows.

Then I took things further still. I started to truly study the Megalithic monuments by creating

their basic mechanics in small scale on my tables at home. At that time I hadn’t really known

much about Earth energies, but still was totally fascinated with the way the entire energy flow

could shift based on one recumbent stone in a NE direction as opposed to a SE opening of a

stone circle. I understood then why there was such power in creating a stone gateway leading

up to the circle entrance (such as with Avebury and Stonehenge)…I even could understand why

those who’d built Stonehenge had expended so much effort to cart the bluestone so many miles

for their monument. I of course didn’t have bluestone for my creations nor the special Earth

energy of where they were positioned, but learned much even through my basic stone setups.

I also would note that the centers of each circle would conjure up various and unique patterns,

and I realized that they were each created to provide unique functions. It could be a lifetime

study to really examine the megalithic monuments in this way, and then to add in the Earth

energies of where they lie and other important details such as the circular ditches created or

mounds and spiral markings.

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I credit my play for so many years with simple beach stones with teaching me the simple and yet

also complex understanding that everything is “in relationship with” everything else. I

kept my mind open to the flows and let the objects speak to me in their own eloquent way. I

would often find that the flows did rather unexpected things. For example, I once placed 9

small stones in a circle and then placed my pendulum in the center to see where it would sit. It

was not centered. I experimented a bit based on my intuitions, taking a stone out here or there

and replacing it with another. What I’d learned was a vital lesson in the importance of power.

Not just any 9 stones would do, but only 9 who worked equally in relationship to one another as

a whole could actually form a true and calm center. A Power center, as I came to call it. *(and

this can be extended out to the stones in Stonehenge, all our chakras or planets in our solar

system, etc, etc) .

I also realized that I was very good with my intuitive. I found it easy to snatch up stones

quickly, and without any conscious desire create an equal circle with a power center more often

than not. This was a key ingredient in helping me to relax into my intuitive powers and

capabilities. With my pendulum, it was very easy to see when I had digressed from intuitive to

ego as the flows would be uncentered. I came to appreciate all the irregular or surprising flows

that happened on a daily basis. Through my desire to allow this irregularity and to actually

examine them more closely , I learned to learn in this new way. I’d always been a good

student, but never had consciously thought about how my curiosity and tolerance to seek without

an expectation is that which catapults one from mere understanding into that of conceptualization

and vision.

I find my work with a pendulum to be a fast paced level of learning, as fast as I am willing or

able to evolve.

I learned much about power and equality from my simple play with shapes and stones. I

learned that the size of the stone did not necessarily mean more flow “pull” . I learned that in a

triangle, the equal power of the 3 stones is very important at all times. I learned what happens

when two of those 3 stones are more powerful. I later realized that these simple rock flows

described triangles of people just as well, only people often express these flows through the

canvas and medium of Emotions. It wasn’t long before I was trying to understand

energyflows of infinitely more complex “models” ….plants, animals, people and Earth.

One day I made a momentous discovery. I had placed my pendulum over a picture of a person

in a magazine and lo and behold I was getting a reading as though it were a real person sitting

right in front of me. I know that it has been said especially by many tribes that to take a picture

of one is to take a piece of their soul. Wow, I thought. Those movie stars must really be

stretched by now. Through this I made the leap of comprehension that I could have a

photograph of any object and use that just as if it were the real Being. The exciting thing, of

course, is that I was free to now work with Beings that were too big to hold otherwise, such as

galaxies and crowds of people. This kept me happily occupied collecting photographs and

trying to acquire books of every plant species one can imagine. Had to have the pictures. Then

to match them I’d simply take the pictures, place them side by side and read the energy flows

between them.

This proved to be both a gift and a crutch. It was a gift in that it allowed me to work with

subjects and see flows that I’d not ever dreamed of before. As my understanding grew, it

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wasn’t long before I wanted to watch the flow between objects or beings that I *didn’t* have a

photograph of. Emotions, such as anger or sorrow, love or peace….how could I see those in

relationship with ones’ Root chakra? Thus was born another conceptual leap, on the wings of

knowing that it wasn’t really the picture I was looking at, it was the focus of the picture.

I decided to just say in my mind that I’d placed such and such down right in front of me. For

instance, I’d draw an imaginary circle on the floor in front of me, saying that this was “me”.

And found that when I placed my pendulum right there at this spot, there was indeed something

to read, and it wasn’t just the floor covering. From that day to this, this is the way I work with a

pendulum, just focusing my intent and placing whatever I want to view anywhere I want to

“look”. Such freedom!

This way I can take any of my chakras and look at it as if it’s sitting right in front of me. I can

take all my chakras and place them in a circle and look at the flows together. I especially like

to watch the flows between any two or three chakras. I can keep watching the flows of all my

chakras, and work on clearing them all at the same time, watching very graphically as the vitality

levels increase or equalize.

There is literally an infinite number of ways that I could focus and watch energy flow

relationships. I also can and do use my pendulum to follow actual earth energy flows as well.

Through this I have come to recognize spirals as inherent in energy flow formatting and also

have realized that there is so much going on in every square foot of space that we could study the

square foot of “empty” space right next to where we are sitting for lifetimes and still not

comprehend it all.

Every spot of Earth is as sacred and powerful as every other spot. (Not all are as balanced

though.) Through understanding this I also finally comprehended that one need not go

anywhere at all to feel Earth’s power or to feel their own power. On the other hand, we can

stand *anywhere* on Earth and feel Earth’s power and our power (if I am balanced).

Through a pendulum I have learned that it’s simply a matter of focus.