Keywords: water witching, divination, magickal divination, dowsing, water dowsing, pendulum, Polly Cady, Stephanie Yeh, dowser, water witch.Description: Article from the Esoteric School of Magic and Shamanism on using water witching or dowsing as a form of divination.HOW TO Dowse or Water WitchBy Stephanie " The term sounds so delightful, mystical, andwonderful, doesn't it? Water witching is the art of using amagical tool, such as a pendulum or dowsing rods, or psychicabilities to find underground sources of water.

People, includingsome plumbers, have been practicing water witching and dowsingfor centuries.Dowsing is actually a specific form of divination, which is theart of accessing information not available to the five senses.Other forms of divination include the tarot, water bowls, scryingin chalices, and Rune stones.According to Polly Cady, a master dowser of 14 years, one of theeasiest ways to get started with water witching or dowsing is tostart with a pendulum. You can make a pendulum from almost anylightweight object suspended on a chain, string or thread.Lightweight objects you can use include paper clips, small rocks,earrings, hairpins, pendants, small medallions, crystals andtalismans. If you choose to use a crystal, use an amethystbecause other kinds of crystals become too easily contaminated.

To find underground water with a pendulum, here's a quick lessonfrom the American Society of Dowsers."The dowser usually seeks flowing underground veins suitable fordrilling and pumping. The veins can be large and deep or smalland shallow. You can discriminate by focusing on a need, real orimaginary . Ask mentally, either successively or all at once, fora 'vein of good drinking water, less than twenty feet in depth,which will flow uninterrupted at the rate of 5 gallons a minuteor more.' Thus when you receive a reaction, you will know that itis not a pipe, a polluted vein or a source that might otherwisebe too deep or seasonally unreliable for 5 gallon PET bottle stretch blow moulding machine the purpose at hand.When the dowsing reaction takes place, mark the spot and approachit from the opposite direction.

If the two points do notcoincide, the mid-point between them should be the center of thevein."According to Polly, a left-to-right pendulum swing indicates a"no" while a back-and-forth swing (to and away from you)indicates a "yes." As with all magical techniques, practice makesperfect.

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