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Of course, the very real answer is, as Diana has previously pointed out, by mixing the cards together.
This is not my question, however. Nor is the question about the various ways in which one may mix the cards together, but the question of shuffling or mixing as part of the very being and process of reading.
For example, whether I mix the cards by mixing them fanned out upon a table, face up or down; or I 'riffle' them; or again I hand them to another to mix - all these are peripheral answers. And each of us may use various methods at various times.
Again, the importance is not on the number of permutations one method gives over another (by allowing reversals or not, for example)...
The question is not on the 'shuffle' part of the question, but on the 'how'! For this question, transformed to exclamation, already contains something which may bring us out of ourselves if voiced by another during the process ('How do you shuffle!!!).
Again, then, the very tone or disposition one adopts from the beginning of the reading process, from even before the cards are held and shuffled, to the concluding part, becomes verily a sacred act. Of course one may include myrrh or mirth - but reverance (again) comes as central.
This is not my question, however. Nor is the question about the various ways in which one may mix the cards together, but the question of shuffling or mixing as part of the very being and process of reading.
For example, whether I mix the cards by mixing them fanned out upon a table, face up or down; or I 'riffle' them; or again I hand them to another to mix - all these are peripheral answers. And each of us may use various methods at various times.
Again, the importance is not on the number of permutations one method gives over another (by allowing reversals or not, for example)...
The question is not on the 'shuffle' part of the question, but on the 'how'! For this question, transformed to exclamation, already contains something which may bring us out of ourselves if voiced by another during the process ('How do you shuffle!!!).
Again, then, the very tone or disposition one adopts from the beginning of the reading process, from even before the cards are held and shuffled, to the concluding part, becomes verily a sacred act. Of course one may include myrrh or mirth - but reverance (again) comes as central.