Using, Caring & Storing your Tarot Deck

A Tarot Deck is bought once in many years and used day in and out for many people for years together. It is important that a deck so important for you and others(that gives them advice to change their life... :) ) should be maintained well and cared well.

First of all when we buy a deck it is with the energy from the manufacturing unit. To make it personal you have to fill it up with your own energies so that it knows how to respond to your energies. To make it used to our energies there are simple steps that people usually follow daily while beginning or do it always.

1) Keep your tarot deck with you all the time, doing this helps the cards to absorb your energies. Also carry them wherever you go even at bedtime put them under your pillow. If you go out then carry them in your purse. The logic behind this is it develops a relation with you. And when we develop a deep relation with the cards we connect to each other and intuition easily flows to give us answers through the cards.

2) Use incense regularly for like every 15-20 days to cleanse the deck. If you don't want to use incense then you can imagine a white shaft of light entering your cards and see it cleaning your deck. You can also put piece of quartz or amethyst crystal along with your Tarot cards to keep them clean.

3) Don't let anyone else touch your cards without your permission. Let them touch while the reading only when you are 100% ready for it.

This is because the cards are very carefully programmed by our energies and then we cannot allow anyone to just disturb the energies which we have fed the cards. Some peolpe carry lot of negative energy and they may make you feel your cards heavy. So be very careful while choosing people to allow your cards. Moreover daily after you're done with them cleanse with the above mentioned methods.

4) Also there is a history that says tarot cards should be placed in wooden box which helps the cards to stay away from stray energies. You can use plastic box instead of wood if you don't get it easily.



5) Also wrap the cards in purple or black cloth preferably silk, velvet or satin. It is said that these colors have the quality of protection against negative energy. So they will protect the cards.



While doing a reading you should be in a very quite state of mind. If your mind is chattering then do some meditation or deep breathing to calm down, and then start the reading. Also the atmosphere and client needs to be calm and quiet so put some incense and music or add more as per your choice.

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