How to Cleanse Your Tarot and Oracle Cards

The other day I revisited my Albano-Waite tarot deck after a loooong break. I used to use these cards often, but have been studying the iChing instead of cards more intensely for the past few years.

I got out my favorite deck, purchased in a beautiful little fairytale village in the Loire Valley in France, and did a reading. The read was off and the cards felt heavy. I didn’t resonate with what they were saying.

So I switched to my other version of the same deck – shiny and newer. Same cards. And the cards felt light and happy and the reading was accurate.

Have you ever noticed this happening with your tarot and oracle cards? After a lot of use, cards can get heavy with energy and become super flat and un-magical.

There’s an easy solution, though – cleansing them. It takes a while, but basically, you can envision each card surrounded by white light, and then purify each card with sage, palo santo, frankincense and copal, or any other purifying smoke you like.  You can even set the cards outside under clear quartz crystals in sunlight or moonlight! Just don’t let them sit in the sun too long or get wet at night.

Next time your cards feel off, try this – and let me know how it goes!

How to Get a More Accurate Tarot Card Reading for Yourself

I have to be honest with you. I LOVE the tarot as a source of divination!

The images on the cards are so mysterious and beautiful. And you can get really accurate insight using them.

You have to be very careful when doing tarot card readings for yourself, though. Why is that?

Because the cards are actually quite influenceable! You use your hands to shuffle and draw the cards. When you’re in a tizzy or a very “needy” state, your powerful consciousness can inadvertently select cards that will tell you what you want to hear, and not the truth.

When I did tarot readings for clients ages ago, this phenomenon would reflect itself very clearly with people. If they were upset, they would pull cards that reflected their state of mind. I would always advise them to calm down, quiet their entire being, and then re-shuffle and pull the cards.

They would almost always reflect something very different — and more in line with the truth.

So next time you do a tarot reading for yourself, try the tips in the video above and let me know how it goes in the comments on YouTube!

Thank you so much for reading and watching. See you next time!