PARAPSYCHOLOGY

Pendulum Craft: Your Guide to Using, Choosing & Understanding Pendulums

Sterling Ethos. May 2025. 224p. ISBN 9781454955702. $19.99. PARAPSYCH
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A pendulum is basically anything that can be hung from a string and will move autonomically to answer questions in a divinatory fashion. Taylor (Sigil Craft) writes a thorough and engaging treatise on the history, types, materials (complete with correspondences), and myriad uses of pendulums. Going beyond divination, chapters cover using pendulums and pendulum boards for clearing spaces, healing the body, and balancing chakras (the body’s energy centers). Throughout, Taylor provides “Witch Tips” for using pendulums in a magical practice and exposits on adjacent topics such as ethical foraging, magical colonialism, separating artists’ behavior from their art, and the evils of binary thinking. At times, these digressions can come across as preachy, but they’re also deepened when Taylor autobiographically relates their own perspective as a nonbinary, neurodivergent person to the open-mindedness that witchcraft can foster. An extremely informational and well-intentioned parapsychology work.
VERDICT A deep dive into the use of pendulums. Recommended for audiences, especially Gen Z readers, who are seeking quality information regarding witchcraft and the magical practice of fortunetelling and divination with pendulums.
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