PixieLi
thankyou anonymous_artist
I'm going to print this one out
blessed be
Pix
I'm going to print this one out
blessed be
Pix
how to cleanse my cards
Persephone37
Sorry for a probably stupid question, but why should I at all? In all the 25 years I never did anything to cleans them and never felt the need to do so. If I am focused, my cards are focused and if I am not, they are not.
Regards
Petra
Regards
Petra
anonymous_artist
Each to our own I suppose. Some feel the need to and some do not. To be honest I beleive its is a personal thing to cleanse your cards. It brings me closer to them. That is my opinion.
Glass Owl
I found this online from a Wiccan/Pagan site and I thought that this would be a good thread to put this in.
Cleansing and Charging of a New Tarot Deck
Often, with ritual, you 'feel' your way through it; following the paths that seem most correct. For me, magick is rarely done the same way twice; improvosation seems necessary. This in mind, feel free to modify this incantation to fit your own beliefs and path.
For visualization, gather a black votive candle and a white votive candle, and cast the spell sometime in the days following the full moon. Gather a green taper candle as well.
A bit of gingerroot (for potency/power) can be chewed during this ritual and peppermint leaves may also be helpful. If you have any incence (stick incense is easiest and cheapest to come by), use a stick during the ritual. While your favorite incence (or one with which you identify with cleansing) is always a good idea; incenses with such properties to me seem to be pine or frankinsence. Get a piece of silk to set your deck upon and wrap it with when you are done.
A pocketwatch, hourglass, sundial or other time piece should finish this ritual.
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1. Gather your herbs and implements. Get a stone or something that won't burn on which you can set the leaves (if you decide to use them).
2. Set the three candles from left to right with the black votive on your left, green taper in the middle and the white votive to your right. Put the timepiece in front of the green candle. This symbolizes divination and knowledge of the future.
3. Set the Tarot deck on the silk cloth before you.
4. Ground and Center.
5. Establish what protections/requests to the Four Quarters you require.
6. Start by lighting the cleansing incense and breathing in deeply, holding the tarot deck to be cleansed in your lap. Feel it's contours with your hands until you know it's shape in your mind. Overlay this image with another image of the timepiece. Let the symbolism of the two merge to become one. (In other words, concentrate on the symbolic similarities of the deck and time piece and weave the raised energy through that concept.)
7. Light the green candle with the words, "I light this candle in honor of your cleansing hands."
8. Chew the ginger root (if you like, it's pretty awful tasting) for potency and utilize the energy released from it to charge that which you have already raised.
9. Take the peppermint leaves (if used) and light them in the green candle and let them burn on the stone or inflammable surface you have with the words, "I release the energy of life to drive off impurity."
10. Pass the tarot deck through the smoke of the leaves (if used) and the incense. Focus the image in your head on the energy and smoke moving through the deck and forcing impurity out.
11. Light the black candle from the green taper, imagining it to represent the impurities in the deck. As it burns, so too are the impurities cleansed away.
12. Innundate the shape in your mind (and project through the deck) with the energy you have raised.
13. Flip through the deck, one card at a time, and picture the impurities drifting up on the smoke away from the card. Be sure to channel the actual energy you've raised into this visualization. If it feels appropriate, you may want to use a chant (such as the Goddess Chant) to focus your thoughts. Place each card back, face-down, on the silk. You don't have to look at each card unless that feels right to you; this shouldn't have to be a very difficult or a huge task ... just a smooth cleansing. It occurs to me that you may want to pass each card once over the timepiece -in effect, charging the card with the 'future'. This is not required and has been added as an afterthought.
14. Once all the cards are face-down on the silk in a stack, snuff the black candle and light the white one with the words, "By your healing and my will, So Mote It Be."
15. Wrap the cards in the silk for protection and ground any extra energy.
16. Snuff the candles.
17. Close any circle or protections you have raised.
Cleansing and Charging of a New Tarot Deck
Often, with ritual, you 'feel' your way through it; following the paths that seem most correct. For me, magick is rarely done the same way twice; improvosation seems necessary. This in mind, feel free to modify this incantation to fit your own beliefs and path.
For visualization, gather a black votive candle and a white votive candle, and cast the spell sometime in the days following the full moon. Gather a green taper candle as well.
A bit of gingerroot (for potency/power) can be chewed during this ritual and peppermint leaves may also be helpful. If you have any incence (stick incense is easiest and cheapest to come by), use a stick during the ritual. While your favorite incence (or one with which you identify with cleansing) is always a good idea; incenses with such properties to me seem to be pine or frankinsence. Get a piece of silk to set your deck upon and wrap it with when you are done.
A pocketwatch, hourglass, sundial or other time piece should finish this ritual.
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1. Gather your herbs and implements. Get a stone or something that won't burn on which you can set the leaves (if you decide to use them).
2. Set the three candles from left to right with the black votive on your left, green taper in the middle and the white votive to your right. Put the timepiece in front of the green candle. This symbolizes divination and knowledge of the future.
3. Set the Tarot deck on the silk cloth before you.
4. Ground and Center.
5. Establish what protections/requests to the Four Quarters you require.
6. Start by lighting the cleansing incense and breathing in deeply, holding the tarot deck to be cleansed in your lap. Feel it's contours with your hands until you know it's shape in your mind. Overlay this image with another image of the timepiece. Let the symbolism of the two merge to become one. (In other words, concentrate on the symbolic similarities of the deck and time piece and weave the raised energy through that concept.)
7. Light the green candle with the words, "I light this candle in honor of your cleansing hands."
8. Chew the ginger root (if you like, it's pretty awful tasting) for potency and utilize the energy released from it to charge that which you have already raised.
9. Take the peppermint leaves (if used) and light them in the green candle and let them burn on the stone or inflammable surface you have with the words, "I release the energy of life to drive off impurity."
10. Pass the tarot deck through the smoke of the leaves (if used) and the incense. Focus the image in your head on the energy and smoke moving through the deck and forcing impurity out.
11. Light the black candle from the green taper, imagining it to represent the impurities in the deck. As it burns, so too are the impurities cleansed away.
12. Innundate the shape in your mind (and project through the deck) with the energy you have raised.
13. Flip through the deck, one card at a time, and picture the impurities drifting up on the smoke away from the card. Be sure to channel the actual energy you've raised into this visualization. If it feels appropriate, you may want to use a chant (such as the Goddess Chant) to focus your thoughts. Place each card back, face-down, on the silk. You don't have to look at each card unless that feels right to you; this shouldn't have to be a very difficult or a huge task ... just a smooth cleansing. It occurs to me that you may want to pass each card once over the timepiece -in effect, charging the card with the 'future'. This is not required and has been added as an afterthought.
14. Once all the cards are face-down on the silk in a stack, snuff the black candle and light the white one with the words, "By your healing and my will, So Mote It Be."
15. Wrap the cards in the silk for protection and ground any extra energy.
16. Snuff the candles.
17. Close any circle or protections you have raised.
Mellifluous
I don't think anything complicated is necessary. You could just reorder them and say a prayer or blessing over them. Even that's not necessary unless you feel the need though... and that method takes up hardly any space! 
priscilla
i have tried this method after read in in one of my tarot book (i forget the title and the author coz it had been in box for months), and i surprised coz it made my cards a bit damagePippa said:
Scorpio Kitten
I like to just lay them on a cloth and consecrate them with each of the elements. A white candle (the one I use is consecrated specifically for purification, but any would do), some sage incense, some water (I use storm water I've collected, but again any would do) and some sea or kosher salt. I figure the "spirit" element is pretty much taken care of in the act of the ritual.
Without fanning the cards I pass the deck through the smoke, through the flame (quickly, not really even touching the flame to them), flick a bit of water on them, and lastly sprinkle them with the salt. Make sure you wipe off the water as soon as you're done otherwise it could damage the deck.
I find this is a really simple and easy way to cleanse a new deck, and I have done it with all of my decks. If I go for awhile without using a deck, or if I feel it just needs to be freshened up I just smudge it with some sage.
Without fanning the cards I pass the deck through the smoke, through the flame (quickly, not really even touching the flame to them), flick a bit of water on them, and lastly sprinkle them with the salt. Make sure you wipe off the water as soon as you're done otherwise it could damage the deck.
I find this is a really simple and easy way to cleanse a new deck, and I have done it with all of my decks. If I go for awhile without using a deck, or if I feel it just needs to be freshened up I just smudge it with some sage.
Asbestos Mango
Hmmm.
I used to just put the cards in order, sprinkle some salt in between them (plain old table salt) and let them spend an afternoon on a sunny windowsill. Seemed to work fine, though sea salt would probably be better.
I don't think you really need to do anything elaborate to cleanse the cards.
I used to just put the cards in order, sprinkle some salt in between them (plain old table salt) and let them spend an afternoon on a sunny windowsill. Seemed to work fine, though sea salt would probably be better.
I don't think you really need to do anything elaborate to cleanse the cards.
nisaba
Mine's even simpler. I just shuffle briefly after I use them! Works for me.Mellifluous said:I don't think anything complicated is necessary. You could just reorder them and say a prayer or blessing over them. Even that's not necessary unless you feel the need though... and that method takes up hardly any space!
Wonderwoman
Sage Constantly
As I now read constantly, I sage them almost on a daily basis. Especially after reading for a complicated querent, I find it a necessity.
Ww
As I now read constantly, I sage them almost on a daily basis. Especially after reading for a complicated querent, I find it a necessity.
Ww
