Hello everyone, I'm a newbie in Tarot reading and recently I've read about refreshing a tarot deck after using it for a while. Some documents say that we have to do it to refresh the energy in the deck, but others say that it depends on the reader to do it or not. So, is it necessary to refresh a tarot deck? And if we don't, could we still be able to read it accurately? I hope to see some opinion about this subject from everyone, thank you.
Do it if you believe!
And in any way you like.
I love ritual - so I could make up all sorts of things here.
I don't often refresh/cleanse/"re-set" my decks. (or should I say - refresh/cleanse/"re-set" my brain
in such a way
).
Here are some ideas:
1) As has been suggested - wave some smoking sage (or other "purifying" herb. It can be one you've decided is purifying - doesn't have to be an "accepted" one) over your deck, whilst you imagine the desired effect for it.
2) Ring a bell/bowl/tuning fork/clap your hands over it, and ask it to be cleansed.
3) Place it on your windowsill under a full moon.
4) Place it in the middle of a crystal grid - if you have some clear quartz points you could have them pointing outwards from the cards first, to "direct unwanted frequencies away" - and then pointing inwards to "draw fresh new energy in".
5) Stick a cleansing crystal on top of it. I have a smokey quartz skull that serves this purpose nicely.
6) Place it on your Amethyst crystal bed, or other.
7) Tap it with your favourite magick wand and say "Clean up now please!".
8) Place your deck on your Altar, call the four Quarters (Elements - Earth, Air, Fire and Water) and draw a magick circle around it.
Then petition your Guides/guardians/specific Deities/Angels to refresh the deck.
9) Place your deck on a piece of silk on the floor/Altar, draw a banishing pentagram over it, then walk around it chanting a banishing spell...
Round about this circle bound
May my magickal deck be sound
Fresh and bright may it now be
Shining as star for/of ME!
Or alternatively, draw some other sacred symbol over it (Cross, Jewish Star etc.) and say a prayer.
Etc. etc. etc.