Liliana
ritual isnt necessary before using a new deck, manypeople just feel closer to the deck if they do some kind of cleansig or dedicating ritual. Some people just sleepwith it under their pillow,soe people do sun and/or moon cleansing, some leave a crystal ontop the deck, some people go to great legths to find a perfect home (bag or box) for the deck, and some people just shuffleittil itfeels right and gofrom their. Me,I love to pass it through the smoke of Sage incense, since theirs a place here that sells it for 7 cents a stick (just went up from a nickle) thats high quality stuff. By buring it in an incense bottle it gives off a nice thick area opf smoke, making it easy to do, but since I like to do each card individually it takes awhile to go through 78
Ive only ever did a dedication ritual once, it waswith 4 otherpeople here we did a worldwide once, all of us doing it at the same time (4 am for some of us, 2 pm for others hehe)
You can just take them out under the moon, you dont have to spread them, you can even leave them in a window to asorb moonlight. Up to you. Dont know much with pedalums, but I figure that if it swings one way the deck is cleansed thouroughly, if it swings the other it needs more cleansing.
If you need to do a reading with a new deck cause its new, we know how it is, using the 3 card new deck spread is appropriate. You can find it at
http://www.anjastarot.dk/spreads/others/DifferentKindsOF3CardSpreads.htm
Its the second one
Ive only ever did a dedication ritual once, it waswith 4 otherpeople here we did a worldwide once, all of us doing it at the same time (4 am for some of us, 2 pm for others hehe)
You can just take them out under the moon, you dont have to spread them, you can even leave them in a window to asorb moonlight. Up to you. Dont know much with pedalums, but I figure that if it swings one way the deck is cleansed thouroughly, if it swings the other it needs more cleansing.
If you need to do a reading with a new deck cause its new, we know how it is, using the 3 card new deck spread is appropriate. You can find it at
http://www.anjastarot.dk/spreads/others/DifferentKindsOF3CardSpreads.htm
Its the second one