How do you Cleanse your cards??

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

I just thought we'd get some action going in here! It seems a little slow in here and I'm up early with nothing to do! :D

I cleanse my cards by:

smudging ....about once a month or so.
banging ....after nearly every reading.
Reiki ....while I'm shuffling or just holding the cards.
shuffling for a long period of time.....when I feel then need to be near my deck. :D


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[Adrenaline Junkie]

Love the question, Dagda.

I use two methods in particular.

1. Smudging
2. Gems/stones. I keep my moonstone in my tarot card pouch at all times. My pouch is also black, so it helps keep negative energies from getting at 'em.

Thanks for bringing up banging your cards. Such a simple way of cleansing.

[Silver Venus]

I use smudging and gem stones Crystals too! and like to leave them out in the Moon light when there a full moon and its dry outside for a few hours with my Crystals :D
I also used Reiki to cleanse and protect them last full moon and planning on using this fab energy more to cleanse them :D

[Drew]

If possible I will use the light of a full moon otherwise any moon will do:) But just a little warning I wouldn't recoment Cleansing the cards with the sun. I did this once but they all got bent. Somhow the sin warped them all:(

[Jazzmine]

I cleansed my cards by the elements shortly after I got them.
I plan on doing it again after I have learned them all.

[Angelwulfe]

i cleanse my cards with a moonstone or clear quartz crystal. i also sprinkle herbs in the box or bag i keep them in.

[Haedis]

Well when I HAD cards i cleansed them with the elements. Sprinkling them with salt, water, passing them over incense, and a black candle to remove negativity.

[Lavender]

I'm curious...wouldn't water ruin your cards? I've been using smoke to do my cleansing.

[Jazzmine]

I just sprinkled them slightly. It didn't hurt my cards a bit.
Of course I wiped them off quickly also.:D

[Keron]

A mixture-- smudging (with incense sticks since i don't have herb bundles), reiki, moonlight, Goddess-I ask-thee-for-thy-blessing rituals e.t.c.

[Sequoia]

I chose other, because my cards are so new I havn't had to cleanse them yet. Besides, I like the spunk they've got at the moment! ^_~

but when the time comes, i probably will do smudging, stones, and moonlight. My favourites! Salt doesn't seem to work particularly well for me, excpet in creating safe sleeping spaces hehe

[babes498]

Merry Meet,

I place a rubber band around them to keep them together and then place teh deck under my pillow for one night...........

Love and Light
Babes

[GDA]

For those of you who use smudging to cleanse your cards, what do you use for this? Is dry rosemary sufficient?

[Lavender]

Dried rosemary is good for cleansing. Also, try using a mix of sage & rosemary together. Or you can add a pinch of tobacco too. If you can, get them from an organic source.

[Keron]

hmmm... i prefer lavender myself, but that's just me. Anyway, be careful not to set fire to your cards! I've had one or two close shaves-- thank the Goddess i was using incense sticks and not smouldering herb bundles.

[Emy]

I voted for elements but it is only half true since I use different methods... However my favourites are elements (using saltwater to sprinkle on them for earth and water, a candle and a feather), sunlight and moonlight and crystals.
Haven't tried banging them, but well, I'll have to try that after my next reading. :)

Blessings

[Silver Venus]

Great to see you back Emy :D Where have you been? We have missed ya :)

[Emy]

Great to be back :)
Well, I haven't really been anywhere, but we had to reinstall everything on our computor and that took a loooooong long time and then I just recently have had some exams... but it seems as I will have more time to spend here now, and our computor is working well again. :)

[Witchy Cowgirl]

I voted for banging on the table cause I do that after every reading and daily drawing.

But I also use insence, sunlight, and my favorite for a major cleansing is the leave them on a bed of cedar shavings and salt.

(Bumping for Masamune)

[tarotbear]

'With an emphysis on the lattah!"

I usually bang them against the table-- always works for me! Especially with a baulky deck. :smash:

Blowing on them while I sort them back out and put the suits and Majors back together in order helps a lot, too. :razz:

[Ganga]

I use smoke (smudging), usually just frankincense on charcoal. I also shuffle them for a long time very meditatively before a reading.

I like the idea of leaving them in full moon light, perhaps on the window sill. Maybe I'll try it this full moon (in two days).

[Silver_Alhena]

I voted other, but i use a different method for each deck!

The cards normall stay under my pilllow, but after long readings, or a few in a row, one deck likes being passed trough incense, one likes to be banged on the table, and others like the combination of meditation with crystals.

*sigh* get it wrong though and they go in the huff!

[Glory]

If my cards just aren't working for me at all, I will generally put them in numerical order, leave them for a while, and then smudge them with sage. Then they work like a charm!

[Taliesyn]

I break my cards with a way shown to me by the Merlin Oracle- I make seven piles of cards, by dealing out the deck. then I shuffle these piles back together. then I smudge- that's about it- but I do keep them wrapped, and on my altar.

[Keldra]

I don't believe cleansing decks is necessary, so I don't employ any of the usual methods. I voted "other", because the closest thing to cleansing that I do is sort my cards back into numerical order after particularly intense readings, with the minor arcana suits organised by the season they represent to me; I also tend to get caught up in long, meditative shuffling sessions quite often.

[Tsunami29]

I DOn't know how to cleanse my cards :(:nyah:

[Taliesyn]

I don't believe cleansing decks is necessary, so I don't employ any of the usual methods. I voted "other", because the closest thing to cleansing that I do is sort my cards back into numerical order after particularly intense readings, with the minor arcana suits organised by the season they represent to me; I also tend to get caught up in long, meditative shuffling sessions quite often.

it's only after a especially rough reading that I do that (my cleansing method, that is)- or if my cards feel "gummy" most of the time I just leave them alone.

[Thunder]

I use a smudge stick made of sage and sweet-grass to clear everything from my house to my cards. I even smudge myself this way. The only possessions I do not smudge are my stones/crystals... these I clear in the light of the Full Moon.

I store my cards in a silk scarf/cloth.

[Cyn]

My method is kind of a mix of Elements and Other.

I shuffle the deck and run energy in the form of water through them and just keep shuffling until the water runs clean.

[MysticMoggie]

I do two pile shuffles before the reading and two pile shuffles after the reading, so there are always four pile shuffles between each reading and the cards don't go back in the box or bag "fresh" from the previous one.

[Shatril]

I tend to either smudge and energize prior to a reading, with a good shuffle afterwards. I generally put the spread cards from the reading randomly into the deck, just some weird thing I have. Anytime I take cards out of the deck, I always randomly place them back into the deck to prevent them coming out in the same order again, unless they are intended to, in which case they will find a way to get together again. I know this happens, cuz it happens to me a lot. The surest sign if insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome, LOLOLOLOL :rollingla Yeah I ask the same question and by golly pull the exact same cards again. :lol: You'd think at my age I'd have learned better.

[Astara Seague]

moonlight when new and sea salt when needed

[Kalika]

I store mine in a cabinet lined with white sage. I've never needed to cleanse them.

Also, a girl I know puts hers in the freezer to cleanse them. :)

[Darklord_Kodiak]

Never felt the need to.

[Windsmith]

After every spread, I blow on my deck - one breath on each side of the cube the deck forms. Periodically I'll also take my wee tiny broom and give it a good sweeping.

[Nox_Mortus]

I bang them on the table after every spread, when I fell they need deep cleansing I absorb their energy with wand dedicated to that purpose, and return the energy o the earth.

[Darbla]

The other day I watched Doreen Virtue's DVD that comes with her Archangel Oracle cards, and in it she holds the deck in the palm of her left hand and raps on the top once with her right hand fist. Sort of like knocking on a door once. I'd never seen that before, but I think I'm going to use it.

Darbla

[pentacledreamer]

I keep my cards wraped up in their own cloth in an old jewlery box that they picked out.. I've tried to relocate them since the box is broken but it just doesn't work.. I've only cleansed them in the sunlight twice. I think I should cleanse them when I get home..

Why would you reorganize them? I mean isn't it suppose to be shuffled? why put them back in order later?

I'm to scared to use incense around my deck don't want the smoke to ruin the cards.

[Saphyre]

I shuffle them 6 times after every use and I store them with a rose quartz in a black pouch. I don't know why I do it 6 times - it's just something I feel I need to do.

[LisaT4P]

Why would you reorganize them? I mean isn't it suppose to be shuffled? why put them back in order later? I think that some people feel that it "erases" the memory of the last reading from the cards, sort of. Since I don't cleanse mine, I'm not positive, but that seems to be the consensus on that particular method.

[SoulFire]

I cleanse my cards by:

* sprinkling salt on the cards and/or lightly rubbing oil (such as lavender, mugwort, or rose) in my palm and touching each card.

* fumigating the deck in the smoke of burning rosemary or frankincense

* shuffling the deck after reading

* organizing the deck periodically

* placing a stone on top of the deck when not in use

* keeping the deck wrapped and stored away when not in use

[faeriewitch]

I really like to keep things easy and simple , so I keep clear quartz in with my deck and before I use them each time I knock on them 3 times then as I'm shuffling I imagine white light around myself and the cards .
Then I just go through the cards one by one visualising white light around them .

[pentacledreamer]

Becuase I don't normally cleanse my deck I did reorganize themand I did this on the wooden tablet that I use to do my at home readings on. I was talking to my room mate about what other people do to cleansethem and we decided to try tapping them on the table.. I did.. I felt like a rush of energy out of them and was like "wow" it was interesting how things you don't think about work.