Dowsing Tools:
You don't have to pay a fortune!
Dowsing tools are something that everyone buys at one time or another.
Although there might be seem to be wide choice, there are, in fact,
only three types:
- Bought tools
- Home made tools
- No tools (deviceless dowsing)
I'll explain a little more about these in due course.
Firstly, the bought and home-made tools are usually of a limited variety.
The basic tools of dowsing are, in order of popularity:
- pendulum
- l-rod
- bobber
- y-rod
There are other kinds like an aurameter, which is a variation on the
bobber, and the Lecher antenna, which is a variation on the Y-rod. Plus
there are some strange ones like the Spanish Needles which need two
people to use them, or the P - shaped or revolving U - shaped rods developed
in Russia.
Dowsing Pendulums
These can be extremely expensive as well as extremely fancy. Crystals,
bronze, semi-precious stones, bits of turned and polished wood or weighty
plastic are all available.
However, what makes a dowsing tool like a pendulum is just one thing:
the weight at the end has to be heavy enough to keep the cord (or whatever)
stretched.
So, for example, a 3/4 inch nut on a piece of dental floss works very
well indeed. So do car keys on a chain. The strangest I've ever seen,
though, was a garden gnome on the end of a rope! It took a long time
to move and required two hands and a lot of strength....but it worked!
The pendulum has become the most popular tool of all over the last
few decades, supplanting the y-rod and various types of bobber.
L-Rod
The L-rod is another very simple dowsing tool. In the simplest versions,
it consists of a piece of sturdy wire bent at right angles so that there
is one long arm and one shorter (hence the name). Of course, you can pay
an enormous amount of money for these if you wish.
They are simple to use and an L-Rod can show certain aspects of the
environment more easily than a pendulum.
The Bobber
This was probably the original dowsing tool consisting of a length of
supple wood which was held in one hand. Bobbers can now be complex affairs
and be quite cumbersome or quite portable depending on the design.
They tend to be less expensive at the upper end of the scale, although,
of course, as ever it is 'buyer beware'! They are very simple tools
to use, as you might imagine, but can be very versatile as well.
Y-Rods
Probably this is the tool which is most associated with dowsing because
it's the one which most water dowsers seem to use. And, as that is one
of the most commonly visible methods of dowsing, so it has come to be
closely associated with this skill.
It can be a pernickety tool at first, but once mastered, it can be
a great favorite.
Where Y-rods used to be of wood, they can now be of plastic in various
guises and be very large or very small. Of course, you are welcome to
cut yourself a wooden one as large as you like!
Summary
All these dowsing or divining tools can be learned and some of them can
be mastered. It is up to you, of course.
Most of them, as you've guessed, can be made at home from various materials.
But what of the last item on the list? Using no tools?
This is called deviceless dowsing and it is where you use your body
to dowse with instead of a tool. For example, Maggie and I generally
use blink dowsing as it's quicker and when we're on the phone with a
client it's easier than trying to use any of the tools. But there are
plenty of other ways of 'doing' deviceless dowsing.
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