Black Tourmaline Pendulum | Shielded Insight for Readings

The Black Tourmaline Pendulum is a hexagonal cut stone for readers who work on other people's problems and have no interest in carrying them home. Black tourmaline is the shielding stone, and in pendulum form that means the answer comes through and nothing else does.

It is a Saturn stone, tied to earth and the root, and it keeps company with Hecate, Kali and the Morrigan, the goddesses who guard thresholds and do not flinch. Capricorn, Scorpio and Libra take to it, and it belongs on the table through Samhain, when the veil is thin and the questions get heavier. It also grounds: hold it for a minute before a session and the floor feels more like a floor.

How to Work It

Let the stone hang still, set your yes and your no, then ask. Use it for divination, for checking the feel of a room before you clear it, or for grounding when you have taken on too much of someone else's weather. Between readings it lives on the altar or in a pocket; it is as useful at rest as it is swinging.

Try It With

Pair it with the Black Tourmaline worry stone for the pocket, and see the rest of our protection and warding collection.

Good to Know

Natural stone, so the surface and sheen vary a little from piece to piece. Cleanse it between heavy readings; a night on the windowsill or a pass through smoke does it.