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Cup the other hand’s open palm beneath the pendulum (as if to catch it). Hold the palm open and close to the crystal, but do not touch it.
5. Call your angels and demonstrate for them how you want the crystal pendulum to swing for a yes answer (clockwise) or a no answer (counterclockwise).
6. Focus on your question. Do not force the pendulum to move. It will move through the energy of the angels and your energy.
7. Ask the angels your question, and wait and watch for their answer through the swinging of the crystal.
    35: Work with Angel Cards
    Angel card decks, available in bookstores and on the Internet, serve as powerful spiritual tools for clarification of messages from the angels because each card in the deck contains images and words designed for that purpose. Such cards provide insight into the roles angels play and how they assist you. Most of the decks are packaged with a book that gives a description and detailed information about each card along with a message of divine guidance. A theme common of most angel cards, also known as “oracle cards,” is the power of positive thought. Angel cards are similar to divinity tarot cards, however, they do not include any of the darker images that are found in the fortune-telling tarot decks. The following list suggests several ways to become familiar with angel cards.
    TIPS FOR USING ANGEL CARDS
• Read the entire booklet that comes with your deck. It describes each card and its significant meaning.
• Pick one card at a time, and learn the meaning of that card.
• Pick a card. Before you read the booklet, write to the angels and ask them for the message and meaning of each card. (After you’ve finished writing, you can always go back and see what the book says.)
• Pick a card and place it by your bedside or under your pillow. Ask the angels to teach you the meaning of the card during your dream state.
    Becoming familiar with individual cards, learning the card meanings, and being able to make relevant inferences or deductions for your questions, dreams, and meditations based on the cards enables you to interpret what you see more fully. Combined with thoughtful analysis of the communication you are receiving through other means from the angels, the cards become one more tool for clarity. Use angel cards to elucidate angel information from other sources about relationships, finances, health, emotions, life purpose, career, family and child issues, or legal issues. Working with the cards can yield insights. Whether or not card messages make immediate sense (as with dreams unfolding, it may even take a few days for the meaning to become clear), take the time to persevere when working with the cards. The following list suggests possible results of an angel card reading.
• The reading may reveal an immediate answer to a prayer.
• The reading may suggest that you need to make some changes in your life.
• The reading might initiate healing: physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual.
• The reading might open your awareness so you can pay attention to the angels.
• The reading might provide you with the help and guidance you are seeking.
• The reading may indicate the direction you need to go to achieve some goal, or it may reveal information that has remained obscure or unavailable to you.
• The reading may provide you with a feeling of peace: that you are right where you are meant to be, and all is well. After you have learned to decipher the meanings of the angel cards, why not try a past-present-future reading? Perhaps you desire to know what your future holds, but equally important is the understanding of how choices and situations in the past continue to influence and impact the present and future. The greatest gift you can give yourself from a past-present-future reading is to learn from the cards, and see new direction for living your best life now in the present moment.
    Follow these steps to perform an angel-card reading, to receive insight about your