The Cleansing and Charging of a New Tarot Deck
The 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; improvisation 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
incense (stick incense is easiest and cheapest to come by), use a
stick during the ritual. While your favorite incense (or one with
which you identify with cleansing) is always a good idea; incense! s
with such properties to me seem to be pine or frankincense. Get a
piece of silk to set your deck upon and wrap it with when you are
done.
A pocket watch, hourglass, sundial or other time piece should finish
this ritual.
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,
"<GODDESS-NAME>, 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,
"<GODDESS-NAME>, 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. Inundate 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 ea! ch 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,
"<GODDESS-NAME>, 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.
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; improvisation 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
incense (stick incense is easiest and cheapest to come by), use a
stick during the ritual. While your favorite incense (or one with
which you identify with cleansing) is always a good idea; incense! s
with such properties to me seem to be pine or frankincense. Get a
piece of silk to set your deck upon and wrap it with when you are
done.
A pocket watch, hourglass, sundial or other time piece should finish
this ritual.
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,
"<GODDESS-NAME>, 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,
"<GODDESS-NAME>, 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. Inundate 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 ea! ch 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,
"<GODDESS-NAME>, 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.
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also
CLEARING TAROT CARDS
Before, during and after readings. Cards sometimes can feel "heavy" after awhile, and if shuffling doesn't do it, I reorder the deck from 0-Fool through 21-Universe, then each suit from ace to king in order and leave the deck in that order for some time. I have many decks so I would choose another for awhile. I also have a tarot crystal which stays in the bag with my most used deck. I generally light a candle before each intuitive session, and run the cards through the flame with the intention that the Light clear and purify the cards. Clearing with incense, sage, the four elements (fire, air, water and earth) and with crystals specially programmed to clear away psychic debris. And shuffling often!!!!
also
CLEARING TAROT CARDS
Before, during and after readings. Cards sometimes can feel "heavy" after awhile, and if shuffling doesn't do it, I reorder the deck from 0-Fool through 21-Universe, then each suit from ace to king in order and leave the deck in that order for some time. I have many decks so I would choose another for awhile. I also have a tarot crystal which stays in the bag with my most used deck. I generally light a candle before each intuitive session, and run the cards through the flame with the intention that the Light clear and purify the cards. Clearing with incense, sage, the four elements (fire, air, water and earth) and with crystals specially programmed to clear away psychic debris. And shuffling often!!!!
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