Crystals and pendulum: crystal meanings, dowsing, geobiology
Crystals and pendulum brings together three traditions: crystal practice reads the meaning given to stones, dowsing questions a pendulum, geobiology the influence attributed to places.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Crystals and their meanings
The meaning tradition gives each stone, by name, color or intention, and how to care for it.
Crystals
82 pages
Crystal healing is not a recognized therapy: it reads stones through traditions, alongside what each stone really is.
Crystal chart
This crystal chart compares the 80 stones in this section: color, intentions attributed by tradition, hardness, water, sun and birth month.
Crystals by color
Crystals by intention
Crystal families
Care and precautions
The pendulum and dowsing
Free pendulum charts, the gestures for using one well, and what the tests show.
Pendulum dowsing
A divination pendulum is a weight on a chain that you question to shed light on a choice: a support for reflection, with free charts.
Pendulum charts
23 pages
A pendulum chart is a dial of answers the pendulum points to: here they are free, as A4 PDFs to print or on screen.
The home and geobiology
Beliefs about the energy of a place, rituals to cleanse your home, and what can really be measured where you live.
Geobiology
Geobiology credits a place with an influence on the people who live there: its grids have never been measured; radon, air and waves can be.
How to cleanse your home
Cleansing your home means marking a fresh start: open everything wide, tidy up, then a chosen symbolic gesture, sage, salt, or incense.
What geobiologists say
What can be measured in your home
Birthstones, signs and chakras
The stone of your month, of your sign and of each chakra, according to the lists that pair them.
Zodiac stones
Zodiac stones are an old convention: each sign gets one or two stones, but the lists contradict each other almost everywhere.
Chakra stones
Chakra stones follow the modern chakra colors: garnet for the root, amethyst for the crown; the old Indian texts mention none of them.
Tools
Choose and care for a stone, print or create a chart, test your pendulum, check your home: free of charge.
Which crystal is right for me
Three crystals for your intention, chosen according to tradition, your color, and your birth month.
Find my crystalCare for my crystal
What each crystal tolerates: water, salt, sun, heat, knocks.
See what it toleratesPendulum charts
A pendulum chart is a set of answers the pendulum points to: yes or no, alphabet, percentage, numbers, colors. Free charts as A4 PDFs to print, or on screen.
See the chartsMake your own pendulum chart
Make a free pendulum chart: 2 to 12 sectors in your own words, instant preview, full screen and A4 printing. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Create my chartPendulum blind test
Pendulum blind test: the site hides an answer, your pendulum looks for it, then your score is compared with chance. Free, and nothing is sent.
Take the testMy home
What to check at home, in 6 questions: radon, wiring, heating, damp, ventilation and radio waves, with who to contact. Free, nothing is sent.
Check my home
Most read
The pages readers open most.
Obsidian
Crystals
Yes or no pendulum
Pendulum dowsing
Jasper
Crystals
Labradorite
Crystals
Percentage pendulum chart
Pendulum dowsing
Amethyst
Crystals
Cleansing your home with sage
Geobiology
Rose quartz
Crystals
What science says
The word is recent, the practice very old: wearing a stone for what it represents. Modern crystal practice links each stone to intentions and reports virtues that traditions have attributed to it, from Pliny to medieval lapidaries to books of the late 20th century.
Dowsing is the art of questioning a pendulum or rods. Blind tests have done no better than chance: the movement is thought to come from small involuntary movements of the hand.
Today, geobiology mixes two things that Versana always keeps apart: beliefs (grids, the energies of a place, cleansing), told with their authors and dates; and real risks in the home, which can be measured and each have their own public contact.
No stone has a proven effect on health: if you have a health concern, see a health professional. Our editorial line.
Your questions about crystals and the pendulum
Is crystal healing recognized?
No. No authority recognizes it as a method of care, and in 2005 the French health agency Afssaps banned the advertising of a center that credited stones with action on ailments, for lack of clinical or scientific evidence. Versana therefore presents stones as symbolic keepsakes, with their traditions and mineralogical facts, never as a way to act on the body.
How do I choose my stone?
Start from an intention, what you want to cultivate: calm, confidence, a fresh start. The “Which crystal is right for me?” tool suggests three stones that tradition associates with that intention, taking into account, if you wish, a color you like and your birth month. Nothing is sent or saved.
Do you need to cleanse or recharge a stone?
These gestures belong to crystal tradition, not to mineralogy: nothing measures a “charge.” If you practice them, first check that the method will not damage the stone: salt eats away at porous stones, water dissolves selenite, strong light fades amethyst. The “Care for my stone” tool gives the answer stone by stone.
Do you need a gift to use a pendulum?
No. Dowsers readily speak of a sensitivity that sharpens with practice, but the gesture itself is learned in a few minutes: holding the chain, calibrating yes and no, starting from the starting point. What matters is the clarity of the question and the honesty with which you read the answer.
Are Versana’s charts really free?
Yes, with no account and no email address. Each chart can be used on screen, with your phone lying flat, or printed as an A4 PDF. You may reproduce them for noncommercial use with credit to Versana; for commercial use, write to us. All of them are designed by the site: none is copied from elsewhere.
Can a pendulum predict the future?
Versana never presents it that way. Controlled tests have not shown answers better than chance, and an answer about the future cannot be checked at the moment you receive it. A pendulum is better used to bring out what you already think about a situation, so you can decide consciously.
Is geobiology a science?
No. Its name borrows from geology and biology, but the grids and energies it describes have never been recorded by an instrument or confirmed by a blind test. Versana presents it as a belief, with its authors and sources.
What does a geobiologist do at your home?
They walk through the home or the land, look with a pendulum or dowsing rods for zones they consider disturbed, and often suggest moving a bed or a desk. Some also measure electric fields or radon with real instruments: that part can be verified.
How can you tell if your home has a problem?
Start with what can be measured: the radon map of your country, the age of the electrical installation, the heating, humidity, and ventilation. The “My home in 6 questions” tool points you to the right public resources, without sending anything.
Other practices
Other frameworks to read alongside this one.