Psychic Ability Gifts
Also known as divining, rhabdomancy and water witching, dowsing is a form of divination using a forked stick, pendulum or rods to find things like buried treasure, mineral deposits, underground spring water and oil. It can also be employed to diagnose and treat illnesses.
Dowsing is Thousands of Years Old
Dowsing is an ancient practice. Wall paintings estimated to be thousands of years old show tribal peoples surrounding a man with a forked stick, apparently dowsing for water. Many dowsers are kept busy in farming communities searching for water to dig their wells. To determine the sex of their unborn children, women would hold a pin suspended on the end of a string over their bellies – a swing in one direction or the other would determine their babies’ sex with often a surprising degree of accuracy!
In 17th century France there are records of a man, Jacques Vernay, a stonemason by trade, who used his dowsing talents to successfully track criminals.
Today petrochemical companies employ dowsers to confirm underground sources of oil and gas, and dowsers have also facilitated our understanding of the earth’s “ley lines”. Dowsing has some notable supporters such as Leonardo de Vinci and Albert Einstein who was also convinced of the authenticity of dowsing.
In her book, Extraordinary Knowing, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D. describes seeking the help of a dowser to find her son’s stolen violin with great success.
Dowsers Tool Kit
A dowsers tool kit will typically include:
- A forked stick which is a Y-Shaped tree branch (most often from a Willow tree). The dowser holds the branch parallel to the ground at the top of the Y and then walks holding it out in front of themselves. As the branch passes over a hidden object (like water) the end of the stick is pulled down, pointing to the correct spot,
- Rods which are shaped like an L. The rods (easily made with coat hangers) are held in each hand parallel to the floor. When the dowser passes over the hidden object, the rods swing apart or cross each other,
- Pendulums are made with almost anything including beads, rings, talismans fastened to the end of a ribbon, string or gold chain. Dowsers pass the pendulum over a surface, sometimes a map. When the pendulum swings back and forth or in a circle they know they have located the object, determined the answer to a question or diagnosed an illness.
- There is always a series of pendulums on my reading table to answer yes/no questions and one in my purse to use while shopping. If I can’t make up my mind if I should make a purchase, the pendulum helps me choose. I have pendulums for healing as well and have successfully eased a client’s headache using my healing pendulum.