A selection of my favorite pendulums (excepting a few that felt like they didn’t want to be photographed) -- something for any aesthetic mood. Left to right along the top row: My first pendulum, shaped quartz; fluorite with snowflake obsidian; fancy glass beads; metal steampunk aesthetic; quartz with moldavite; other fancy glass beads; dyed howlite. Along the bottom: hollow, screw-top steel pendulum with bronzite; wrapped labradorite with iolite; wrapped quartz with larvikite; labradorite beads; moss agate with amethyst; glass beads, the main one of which I found on a playground as a kid; moss agate with tourmalined quartz; and wrapped amethyst point, which is the one I keep in my mini travel kit. I made all except the steel, the shaped quartz, and the quartz with moldavite. Do I have too many? Naah! Each one has uses it’s particularly well-suited for, and while this is not strictly necessary (any of ‘em would work for any purpose, really), I find it enhances my craft to have specialized tools for specialized purposes. As always with personal-preference kinda stuff though, YMMV. Recently I’ve been using the hollow one to determine correspondences for some potential spell ingredients about which there’s little information out there. It takes some time, but it’s been quite effective -- pop a small amount of whatever I want to work with inside, and ask about what it’s good for. The pendulum responds with a ‘yes’ motion if the asked-about association corresponds, with a ‘no’ motion if it’s something actively contrary, and doesn’t respond if there’s no correspondence. I’m also noting the strength of the response, and collecting data for further study...










