Cleansing and charging your cards

[mysticangel_001]

Not sure this is the right forum but I'll try it here.

What is the best way to cleanse your deck and how often should it be done? I heard that waving the cards through incense smoke was a good way of cleansing them but do you fan the cards out, do them one at a time, just hold the deck, stacked, above the smoke? Are there other ways of cleansing them?

When my cards aren't in use I have two crystals (clusters?) sitting on top of the deck. One is a small, three cluster, Herkimer diamond and the other is twin quartz points with some black crystal growing inside of them. I will, generally, hold the cards in my hands and infuse them with energy before doing a reading and will charge the crystals about every two weeks the same way.

I'm the only one who touches my cards and crystals so I don't worry so much about them picking up negative energy like they would from others handling them. If others were to handle them I would cleanse and charge them more often.

Any suggestions on whether or not I'm doing this correctly?

[TheOld]

hello,
Your doing great, and the simple is the better.
just put inscense on the card pack , don't bother with individual card.
you could also imagine black energy from the cards to the Earth

do it as often as you feel you like/need to.
Have fun.
Omeada

[mysticangel_001]

Yea! Thank you!

[elvenstar]

Hi mysticangel, if you're happy with the way you're doing it and the cards feel good to you, then you're doing it correctly, there's not a right or wrong way. I'll sometimes do the things you said, or blow cold air on them, or bang them on a table . Other times I won't do anything at all. I also don't mind others touching them, it's a totally personal thing. You can search threads here about other ways people use.

[mysticangel_001]

I was thinking about the whole thing with other people touching them. I'm flying to the east coast next month and was thinking that, if I'm terribly bored maybe I would break out my cards and offer readings to people who are sitting aound me? Could give me some practice and be fun...or I could have people moving faaaaar away from me. LOL I don't think the crew would be too pleased with me lighting incense on the plane to cleanse my cards, though. I'll figure something out.

[Sulis]

Why do you feel as if they need to be cleansed?

I never cleanse decks and I love people to touch them and my cards all work fine.
Sometimes I waft them through some incense but that's to make them smell nice, not because I think they're dirty.

The magic is in the reader, not the cards.

My advice - shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.

Found you some old threads:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=3044
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=69740
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=47423

If you do a search and type 'cleansing' into the box and search in 'titles only' you'll find 4 pages of threads on cleansing cards...

[dandelion]

One of my favorite ways to cleanse and charge a tool is to leave it near a window where it can catch moonlight. If something really seems to need a vacation, I'll leave it there for a complete moon cycle (or three ). This alternative works great for those who are sensitive to smoke, or in smoke-free locations.

Also, while not specifically a "cleansing," a simple way to connect with your cards and thank them before and after reading is simply to hold the deck and touch it to your third eye, perhaps with a couple words - spoken or thought - giving thanks to your cards.

[duskymorning]

Originally Posted by Sulis

Why do you feel as if they need to be cleansed?

I never cleanse decks and I love people to touch them and my cards all work fine.
Sometimes I waft them through some incense but that's to make them smell nice, not because I think they're dirty.

The magic is in the reader, not the cards.

My advice - shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.

wow...... haha....... feel the same here. learn so much from this post

[mysticangel_001]

Originally Posted by Sulis

Why do you feel as if they need to be cleansed?

I never cleanse decks and I love people to touch them and my cards all work fine.
Sometimes I waft them through some incense but that's to make them smell nice, not because I think they're dirty.

The magic is in the reader, not the cards.

My advice - shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.

Found you some old threads:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=3044
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=69740
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=47423

If you do a search and type 'cleansing' into the box and search in 'titles only' you'll find 4 pages of threads on cleansing cards...

Hmmm...well I was told to clear that occasionally I would need to clear them of the energy or thought patterns of previous readings. I was also living in an apartment that was on an extreme geopathic stress line so it was suggested that they were probably picking up a lot of negative energy from that the location I was in. *shrugs*

[casia]

I leave them out in the sun sometimes and keep them in a wooden box with a lapizlasuli stone, which is said to be the stone for psycic power... and comunication.... (sorry for the miss spelled words).