Why the Pendulum? or “How Did You Get into All My Nooks and Crannies?”
Flower essences and the pendulum came into my life at the same moment. I had never heard of either of them at the time. Looking back now I am so grateful that I was able to view them both with curiosity and an open mind, because the combination of the two has had such a positive impact on my own and so many others’ lives.I have used a pendulum to determine which essences to put into every formula I have ever made for myself and for every formula I have ever done for anyone else. From the start in my work with the essences, I found it interesting that people who presented similar-sounding issues ended up getting different essences in their formulas. For one person with an emotional issue, for example, the essences in their formula might show a need to do some healing of past emotional wounds. Another person’s formula might show a need to let go of obsessing about incidents in the past and to focus instead in the present. Yet another person’s formula might show that a quantum leap was about to take place in their consciousness so all their emotional issues were asserting themselves as a last ditch effort to hold on to the familiar, and what was needed was perseverance and steadfastness in going forward in their spiritual development rather than regressing into old patterns.
What I found amazing was that each person completely related to the particular essences that came up in their own formula. One experience that illustrates this continues to stand out in my mind. I did a formula for a friend of a friend, a woman I had never met or even talked to before doing her formula. The arrangement was that my friend would send me a photo of the woman to work with and I would call the woman after I did her formula, so I didn’t know in advance what she considered her own issues to be. As I was doing her formula, I was a bit shocked to see how many essences were coming up for her–over 60 in all. The essences indicated that there were a number of pretty intense issues going on, some of which I had a feeling might not be easy for her to hear about.
As it turned out, this woman was quite aware of many of her issues, but was trying to keep them at bay as she focused on her career and image in the world. At the end of the session she said she had a question for me: “How did you get into all my nooks and crannies?” My answer to that question: “By using the pendulum.” Even if I had talked to her before doing her formula, there is no possibility that I could have chosen essences that would have gotten into all her nooks and crannies, partly because she was doing her best not to acknowledge her hiding places to herself, much less to anyone else.
Using the pendulum for my own flower essences formulas gave me a clear look into my own nooks and crannies. Even though I was always “working on myself,” it was seeing what came up in my formulas that brought unconscious issues into my conscious awareness. I began to realize that by using the pendulum with the flower essences I was able to access clear guidance for the inner work I needed to do. Not only that–taking the flower essences helped bring about the inner shifts that needed to take place for my personal growth and spiritual development.
Over time I have come to regard the pendulum as a divining tool, and I only use it as such. When I sit down to do a formula, I take a moment of silence to petition the powers that be–spiritual guides? the client’s higher self? the mystery?–asking that whatever this person needs for their personal growth and evolution come up for their formula; and that I be a clear instrument for them in that process and interpret their formula correctly. I fully trust that this is indeed what happens every time I do a flower essence consultation. If the idea of using a pendulum as a way of choosing flower essences seems a bit like “woo-woo,” I invite you to step into “beginner’s mind” and give yourself the gift of the guidance and assistance that comes through the flower essences.
