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The motion of a spherical pendulum, the suspension point of which performs vertical harmonic oscillations of high frequency and small amplitude, is investigated in terms of the Hamiltonian \[ H=\frac 12(p_\theta-\varepsilon^2\sin\tau \sin\theta)^2 - \frac 12 \beta^2 \cos\theta + \frac{p_\varphi^2}{2\sin^2\theta},\quad \varepsilon = \sqrt{A/l},\quad \beta = \sqrt{2g/(\Omega^2l)}. \] Here \(l\) is the length of the pendulum, \(A\) is the amplitude of oscillations, \(\Omega\) is the frequency, \(\xi_0=A \cos\Omega t\) is the suspension point displacement from a fixed position \(O^*\), \(\theta\) and \(\varphi\) are spherical coordinates, \(p_\theta\) and \(p_\varphi\) are generalized impulses, and \(\tau=\Omega t\). The author discusses qualitative aspects of the near conic motions of the pendulum and obtains stability conditions.