lupercalia
- I shuffle and deal very differently depending on the deck. Most decks I lace, but I riffle Shadowscapes and my Lenormand (very gently, mind you, and never with a bridge - I've been riffling Shadowscapes for years and it's still pristine). Some decks I cut in hand, deal a card, cut in hand, deal, and so on; others I cut on the table and deal from three piles, and others I fan out and choose at random. If I try to use a different shuffle/dealing method, the reading falls apart.
- I personify my decks when I'm talking about them, but never when I'm using them - my Faeries' Oracle is an exception.
- I like as many people to touch my decks as possible: querents, friends, family, the lot. (I promise I don't accost strangers, though.) It's almost like I'm socializing them; the more they get 'used to' other people, the more confident I am that a querent can shuffle them, or not shuffle them, and I'll still get the right reading.
- I personify my decks when I'm talking about them, but never when I'm using them - my Faeries' Oracle is an exception.
- I like as many people to touch my decks as possible: querents, friends, family, the lot. (I promise I don't accost strangers, though.) It's almost like I'm socializing them; the more they get 'used to' other people, the more confident I am that a querent can shuffle them, or not shuffle them, and I'll still get the right reading.