[Online] Wed Sept 16th 6pm PENDULUM: The Trembling Hand

PENDULUM: The Trembling Hand
Wednesday September 16th, 6pm PST
Facilitated by Jessica Chappell
Location: Online via Zoom
Recorded for absentees: Yes
Prerequisite: None

A pendulum seems to offer something irresistible: a direct answer. Yes or no. Stay or go. Act or wait. But what moves when the pendulum moves? Is it the unconscious body, the desiring mind, an intuitive faculty, or something beyond us?

In this one-off class, we will explore the pendulum as an instrument suspended between the conscious mind, the body, and the unseen. We will consider the history and metaphysics of suspended objects, dowsing, automatic movement, and the ideomotor response, not to explain the mystery away, but to deepen it.

Through a series of practical experiments, students will observe how hope, fear, expectation, and the construction of a question affect the answers we receive. We will work with known facts, loaded questions, neutral questions, and genuine unknowns, learning to recognize our own psychic handwriting and distinguish projection from guidance.

We will then move beyond simple prediction, using the pendulum to locate resonance within images, symbols, memories, and archetypal material that cannot answer us in ordinary language. Each participant will bring a real question into the work and use the method developed in class to seek an answer.

Students will leave with a personal method for working with the pendulum, a clearer understanding of how to formulate questions, and a framework for recognizing when an answer is uncertain or unavailable.

No previous experience is necessary. Please bring a pendulum if you have one. A necklace or small weighted object suspended from a string may also be used.

At 22 Teachings, Jessica leads the Book Club and creates tarot-based ritual classes that invite students to step inside the symbols so that what is read on the page becomes lived, embodied magic. Jessica has always been a seeker, and motherhood initiated her into a new octave of magic. Becoming Bisou’s mother gave her an even clearer sense of why spiritual practice matters in real life, in real time, with tiny hands tugging at the hem of ritual.

Her relationship with the unseen began in childhood, collecting crystals and reading tarot as a way to listen beneath the surface of things. In 2017, she began formal study with Naha at 22 Teachings, where her work in Hermetic Qabalah, ritual magic, and tarot became a dedicated path. She approaches the tarot as a living book of wisdom, a mirror for our human experience, and a practical tool for choosing the next right step when the soul is quietly asking for change.