Nice, Jedi!   That's a really beautiful pendulum.  Looks like it has the chakra colors incorporated in to the gem stone beads.  The order of the colors matches the order of the chakra colors, going from deep red (root chakra) on up through purple for the third eye, and then the clear bead that you hold on to for the crown chakra.    Neat.  Now I'm motivated to go try again with my own pendulum....

Thank you Lyra! You got it! Near the end of my search my feeling was first to have a crystal at the end, be it quartz or amethyst and also to have gems of corresponding colors/energies of the chakra's hoping it may be of aid in checking out my energy centers and whether they are open/closed and underactive/overactive. 

Of the many I saw, this one called out to me and it is so beautiful in person I love it!   Allow me to throw out this link to any who may be interested, it is near the end of the page:
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I glad I could be of service in motivating you!  Its so exciting isn't it?!  I find when I use it I get put in sort of a trance and I can feel the energy especially in my fingertips, flowing.  Also my pendulum is quite charged now!  Really the imagination is the limit here.  As of now I am just asking questions, but other things to do would be the chakra checkup, using it to locate things, I'm thinking it could do well to sense energies of other entities and really so much more!

Thank you PleiadeanHealer!  And wow what fantastic suggestions!  You have given me a great way to delve deeper into many questions I ask, much appreciated.  So far its been like walking into a grand library and wanting to read everything but just shouting out random topics and just seeing the covers as opposed to delving into them as you are suggesting.  So much to learn! Whoohooo!

Haha very nice, I should have thought of this!  Ya know sometimes I get these silly worries that I'm just asking too much unimportant trivial stuff and my higher self is sitting there and yawning and just waiting for me to ask stuff that could really make a difference.  With this my higher self could now be of much greater assistance and hopefully have more fun and not be bored from my questions! Haha.

As for the questions, you might want to ask more from the first one where you said "Have I had an incarnation in Atlantis?" and then got a "yes".

You could ask, "is my Atlantean lifetime important to this present lifetime?"

And then try to keep going with that and see how much information you can get.

Another good question would be "Did I have skills in Atlantis that should be brought forth in this lifetime?"

And then ask as many questions as you can to try to find out about these skills.

Also, while holding the pendulum, (usually I do this in the middle of a pendulum session) I ask my HS to help me choose questions that are very revelant to this topic.    Ask to be guided to these questions.   When I do this I usually get all sorts of ideas, so pay attention to any slight ideas that run through your mind.

I'm sure you'll think of more questions to ask in this area.   Good luck with it, I hope you discover much important information.

PH

I've been getting nudges from myself to get a pendulum.  In fact I first had it way back in feburary-march when I made a thread about getting a crystal pendant which I had thought was the image I was giving to myself, but it was a pendulum the whole time ahaha.  Still, that turned out fantastic as with PleidianHealer's suggestion I got a beautiful necklace of amethyst spheres from gemisphere, which has served me in many ways.

Coming across this thread was another nudge and of course talking to ya'll in the chat!  After I got my pendulum I cleansed it and welcomed it.  I made my intentions clear with only allowing my higher self to give answers through it and then I calibrated it.  WOW!!!!!  Talk about trippy!  I knew it would work but to actually see it spinning with such unbridled intensity and precise movements was astonishing.  I asked for 'yes' then 'no' and 'maybe'.  Yes for me is a clockwise circle.  No is side to side.  Maybe is counter-clockwise circle.

I've started a journal for my questions and ya know when it comes down to the asking sometimes I can't think of anything!  This would be my first clear line to my higher self and most of my questions I feel content with what I intuit already.  I would like to ask you all what kinds of fascinating questions you ask that I could ask, I need some inspiration!

I'll list a few that I asked:

Have I had an incarnation in Atlantis?
Yes.

Have I had an incarnation in Egypt?
No.

Have I had an incarnation in the Roman Empire?
No.

Have I had an incarnation as a Native American/Indian? (Have had an extremely vivid dream)
Yes.

Have I been incarnating in 3rd density for over 26,000 years?
No.

Have I had a 3rd density incarnation on another planet?
No.

Am I eating healthy?
Maybe.

Is marijuana ok to be used infrequently?
Maybe.

Do I have a dual-activated body?
Maybe.

Pendulums to Gauge Energy Flow
http://www.earthalchemy.com/pendulum.html

I thought this article was especially timely since I just got this book called The Practicle Pendulum Book by D. Jurriaanse which provides suggestions to perform some of these basic experiments on minerals and has charts showing the expected pendulum behaviour. I tested it with gold and silver (I have a rough unrefined rock from a childhood tour of a gold mine, and a silver chain for the silver).

You place the pendulum over the object (gold) and it begins to move in a wide circle to the right (counter-clockwise). Then over the silver object, it makes an eliptical circle to the left (clockwise). In the book it says "these will reveal the most important polarities: gold-silver; sun-moon; male-female; mind-matter; positive-negative; dynamic-receptive. A clockwise rotation indicates a male radiation; a counterclockwise rotation indicates a female radiation."

It goes on to suggest other experiments and to try other things only when "you feel that you are in control of your pendulum and you know what it is telling you." It provides two matrix charts, one column is the material that composes your pendulum (crystal, stone, copper, etc) with the other axis being the thing the pendulum is used over: minerals on one, and colors on the other. Then it provides a graphic in each square of the matrix showing the expected pendulum swing result for that test combination. I really wish they had gone into a more in depth discussion. Over-all the intro and how-to part is pretty breif but it should be enough to get someone started. The main body is various charts which I've played with a little now and it is interesting. It's a cheap book so if you're into your pendulum then hey, why not?

Okay back to the first link, it talked about using pictures and being able to observe the energies, and a reference to the old indian belief that taking a picture is stealing a peice of ones soul. Ultimately the article concludes "There is literally an infinite number of ways that I could focus and watch energy flow relationships." and "Through a pendulum I have learned that it's simply a matter of focus."

and that reminded me of this radionics link I was just on talking about the same thing, being how you focus and establishing a psychic link, being more important than the symbolic representations you choose to use in bringing that focus, which seems to dove tail nicely into this first article:
http://www.geocities.com/c_cosimano/psionics.html

Keep us updated on your progress....!

Also someone recommended to me that after you are finished with using your pendulum, that you should do some qi-gong and clean your aura. Also maybe good to rinse your hands in water trying to clear yourself. I've been warned it's possible to get some nasty attachments and contact with negative things if you're not careful... I want to be careful and not get myself into some bad situation due to ignorance, or lack of attention to detail. My first shot at this dowsing thing starts with a big bang.

http://www.diviningmind.com/dowsingcharts.html

This website also sell's some of the most amazing pendulum's I've ever seen, they are all worth the money:

http://www.diviningmind.com/cadillacline.html

I found that holding a shorter length of cord works better than a long one for me.

That's exactly what it says at the beginning of the book I just picked up... hold the cord just a couple of inches above the pendulum.

I haven't been travelling with it, but leaving it at home mostly.  For fun, I did use it to calibrate G.W.'s level of consciousness (using Dr. David R. Hawkins' Map of Consciousness).  According to my reading, G.W. calibrates at about "175," which, according to Hawkins means that G.W. spends most of his time being angry.

I found that holding a shorter length of cord works better than a long one for me.  I receive answers with the longer cord, but it takes longer to register an answer. 

A technique I also use for "Yes/No" type of answers is the so-called psychic gauge.  All you do is close your eyes and imagine a gauge like a speedometer.  If the imagined needle lists toward the left in response to your question then the answer is no; if the needle moves to the right then the answer if yes. 

I like this technique because it allows you to feel out weak noes and strong noes, weak yeses and strong yeses.  Of course, you can do that with a pendulum, too.

The pendulum is exterior and tangible, too, and sometimes it's easier to be certain of information that has come from an exterior event rather than from an interior sensing. 

I like both approaches...

So far I've only read a couple of pages and haven't really gotten to figure it out yet.  Any major pointers?

Well first off, congratulations!  That's cool that you bought a pendulum!

For me, I just dived right into it without reading anything on it first, cause I'm just like that.   It just naturally fell into place and immediately worked for me, after 6 months of a growing urge to buy one.  So partly I think the time has to be right, for starters.  It certainly helps if you've felt an increasing urge to use a pendulum.   That's something trying to nudge you in that direction, which probably will help ensure success with it.

As far as pointers are concerned, start off of course by asking what will be "Yes", "No" and "Maybe."  Or whatever type of answers you want to use.   The pendulum should hopefully give you a clear response for each.   I've always consistantly gotten a vertical line for Yes, a counter-clockwise circle for No, and a horizontal back and forth line for Maybe, but I'm sure it's different for everybody.

I started straight out launching into questions, no practice or anything.  That's what determined me buying it - it was already working for me in the shop before I even bought it, much to my surprise.   Do what feels right for you though.  If you feel you need practice, then practice.  One way you can practice is work with somebody else and have them for instance hide an object somewhere in your house / apartment.   Then quiz the pendulum to find out which room it's in.  Tom and I did this, and had luck with it.   It's a good, easy way to verify whether it "works."    What's funny is that Tom hid the object in question in the bathroom, but originally was going to put it in the laundry room, and so even after putting it in the bathroom he kept thinking laundry room.  My results said laundry room.    Weird.  The second time he hid the object it correctly gave the answer as well.

I guess another pointer would be to not think of things in terms of the "pendulum" giving you answers.  It's not the pendulum itself, it's your own higher self / subconscious, speaking to you through the medium of a pendulum.   So when asking questions, try to keep that in mind and strive for that connection with your own self;  think about the fact that you already know the answers.  Now you'd like to tap into them, gain access to what might normally be blocked off.   

In essense, you're "talking to yourself."     But it's fun!

For me, I can feel that sometimes, the connection is being hindered or blocked in some way.  It doesn't happen frequently, but I have had it happen.  But this means that you should be able to feel that there's a "connection" of some sort happening when you do it, like being "plugged in."  It's hard to explain.  But you should feel something like that.   After asking a series of questions, then stopping suddenly, it truly feels to me like unplugging from a trance-like state, and re-surfacing again out of the water.   Then I'll go back to asking questions, and I can literally feel myself plugging back in and slipping back under the water again.  It's pretty cool! 

I've used the pendulum for many years, but went off it, for no particular reason.  Thank you Lyra for reminding me, right after I read your first post, I went and got my yin/yang pendant and got answers to a couple of questions I've been worrying about. 

I got the answers I wanted

Actually that reminds me......the interesting thing about this whole thing is that I don't get the answers I may be expecting.  !   Which is pretty cool, just tells me that it's actually a pretty valid method.  If it only says what I expect to hear then that's pretty questionable.   I won't always hear what I expect, but if I double, triple or quadruple check it, the answers will remain consistent.   

For instance, (and yes, this may seem like a silly goofy thing to ask...blush...) but I asked if my kitty is a reincarnation of any past pets or animals I've been in close contact with.  I figured the probability was high, but at the same time, I couldn't begin to guess who she would have been.  She doesn't have a personality like any past cat or dog I've known.

The answer was actually No.  All 3 or 4 times I asked, it was a clear No.

Interesting!  I also asked if she would ever come back to me after she died.  Don't like to think about that, but it's inevitable.  The answer again was a No, she would be moving on. 

I asked a few questions pertaining to her evolution, all of which were interesting in themselves.  I had a sneaking suspicion for instance that my cat's most recent incarnations were all as people's pets....including being a dog.   She just acts like a dog in many ways, like she's confused and has holdovers from her life as someone's pet Fido.    She does this thing where she'll run, then drop down and roll over with her paws up in the air.   Not very cat-like from what I've seen of other cats.   So, I asked about it and got a very loud "YES" to that one, all the times that I asked. 

What was hilarious was when I asked if she'd ever been a pet ferret.    Yes, laugh if you will, but my cat is a very confused cat indeed, and her original name was actually Ferret, not Kitty, because as a kitten she was so obnoxiously ferret-like, always moving her neck all around and being squirmy like a ferret.   Even my brother saw it and we both indepdently came up with "Ferret" as her name.   The pendulum answer?   "YES!"   

Who knows, but it's funny to imagine. 

I have yet to delve into some of the more serious topics, such as abductions and whatnot.  The one thing I did broach relating to that had disturbing results.  The degree of "Yes" or "No" helped steer my line of questioning, and things weren't quite what they initially appeared to be.   In fact, it was a bit worse.  It involved the VERY Illuminati-owned hotel I recently just worked at, which an intuitive member of NR kept warning me about from Day 1.  As soon as she heard I was working there she immediately was struck with bad feelings of neferous activity, and cautioned me on 3 separate occasions about it, both over the phone and in email.  She turned out to be more right then she could have ever imagined.   My line of questioning pertaining to this issue and a barely half-buried subconsious recollection of something only opened up a Pandora's Box of more questions and implications, so I gave it up and went to bed.   Will resume it again at a later date.  But I feel that this is the reason I've been pushed to try the pendulum....get answers to those particular topics.  The "Big Stuff."   Of course, it's obviously more fun to ask if my cat was ever a ferret.   "Was kitty....a DOG??.......was kitty....A SQUIRREL???....was kitty.....a WOMBAT????......"  haha!

Also, I've thought some more about using the letters and numbers chart along with the pendulum and I've decided against it.  I've always been dead set against channelling for myself, as well as anything that's even remotely related to a Ouiji board.  In my opinion it's dangerous, and as soon as one steps into that territory it's broadening the possibilities of what can get through.   When it's just "Yes" and "No", and you specify that you only want to communicate with your own subconscious or higher self, then it keeps other stuff at bay.  There's not much a malevant entity can do when its only options are Yes and No.   They're like, "BOO!  BOO!   This sucks!  BOO!  I'm atta here!  BOO!"   haha

Will post more later, when I discover more.......