How To Cleanse Your Pendulum
Holistic healers use pendulums for measuring energy fields or as a dowsing tool for divination purposes. Before you use your pendulum you will need to cleanse it. Learning how to cleanse a pendulum is so important before you use it, because you’re never sure what energies it has picked up.
A simple clearing for a brand new pendulum, or even one that just needs some revamping will not suffice. The energy that the pendulum picks up, any energy at all, will leave a signature on all of the answers you get going forward.
The strongest and most powerful way to cleanse your pendulum is by placing it on the earth, near a rock, for about 24 hours and letting it absorb the minerals of the earth. You don’t have to bury it, but surrounding the pendulum completely with the earth helps.
The benefit of not burying the pendulum is that it can also absorb the sunlight and moonlight if it is left out of the ground, while simultaneously absorbing the earth energy.
Moonlight is an extremely powerful cleanser, especially when the moon is full or in any of the water signs. Leave your pendulum on a well-lit windowsill or outside while you sleep.
Sunlight is purifying and will get rid of negative energy. Place your pendulum on the window, making sure it has direct sunlight, and even open the window if possible. (avoid noon day if it's overly bright or hot). Please note - some crystals fade quickly if exposed to direct sunlight. Do not use this method on fluorite or amethyst as they will lose their color.
Another way to cleanse your pendulum is by placing it on top of a piece of selenite or in a selenite bowl. In most cases, a crystal in direct contact with selenite should be cleansed in 6-24 hours.
If you think that the energies attached to your pendulum are not as strong, and that it may just need a light cleansing, you can always use Sage. In this instance you would light sage and burn it, making sure the pendulum goes back and forth through the smoke.
I recently purchased a pendulum and read instructions on how to use it. I did not cleanse it first, as it didn’t say to do that in the instructions I had. It answers all of my test questions correctly but since then I have probably asked at least 100 more and not one single solitary answer has been accurate. I asked one of the questions very specifically several times each day, getting a “yes”, but nothing happened. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.