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Simple Bonding With Your New Deck
A straightforward guide for understanding and bonding with a new deck
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❶ Cleanse your deck
This can be done with numerous methods. Saining ritual, Crystals (like selenite or salt), Sound, Knocking, Moonlight, Sunlight, etc Choose the one that you like best, whichever feels right to you, or use a combination of these that feel good for you!
❷ Explore your deck
Before reading the booklet that comes with your cards, flip through the deck card by card and explore the imagery and symbolism of each card. If you can, journal down your initial thoughts for each card, including how each card makes you feel. Is there a specific card that you're drawn to? Why?
❸ Read the guide book
Repeat Step 2 while reading through and referencing the little white book. How do the author/artist's intentions line up with your original intuitions about each card? Do they conflict? If so, look deeper and try to figure out where your view of the card differs. (this does not necessarily mean your intuition is wrong)
❹ Spend time with your deck
This can include sleeping with your deck next to you/under your pillow, travelling with your deck on your person, carrying around and focusing on a specific card each day, spending time shuffling the cards to mix your energy, or any other ideas you can come up with that allows you to keep the deck, the cards, and the imagery/symbolisms on your mind throughout the day.
❺ Interview your deck
This can be done at any point, but often it’s the most rewarding after you understand the cards to a decent degree. At this point, you should have a good feel for the deck's overall energy and a general idea of what each card represents and why. You'll be able to understand what the deck is trying to tell you much better than if you did this step at the beginning.
❻ Start using your deck
When you feel like you understand the cards and feel comfortable using them for readings, go for it. From this point on, it's going to be growth via experience. Continue to grow your intuition and personal associations with the deck, as well as remembering how the guidebook describes their meanings as that will be different from deck to deck, even if they’re all still tarot cards. Journaling, taking notes, or even just photos of your readings will be super helpful to build an understanding of the decks personality and to see where you might have previously misunderstood something.
there are plenty of ways to work to work a little magic into your day without doing a full on ritual, and your daily (hourly?) tea is one of them! here’s just a couple of suggestions with fruits and their correspondences.
raspberry - love, strength, endurance and reliability
black currant - for abundance, lust, and fertility
rhubarb - for fidelity and protection.
mango - harmony, balance, contentment, fertility.
strawberry - for fortune, friendship, and love.
lemon - for friendship, love, and purification.
cherry - for divination and love.
blueberry - for protection.
apple - for banishment, fertility, healing, love, protection, and purification.
pear - for wealth, love and lust.
orange - for beauty, divination, fortune, love, purification, and wealth.
cranberry - for protection, positive energy, courage, passion, determination, goals, and action
rose-hip - for luck, love, and spirituality.
pomegranate - for divination, luck, wishes, wealth, and fertility
there are a number of combinations of fruit teas, with other types of fruit as well as spices, herbs, flowers and teas. teas can be simple, easy potions with a variety of brewed intents.
junimo embroidery 🍏🌟 / my stuff
i haven’t posted my art in awhile because i haven’t had any motivation to draw but ya girl is joining another dnd campaign so that means another character drawing. Meet Velphi ♡︎
There are different types of Sigils!
As I said before there are different types of Sigils. Different activation ways, different methods to draw them, and different uses.
Sigils are single use; not meaning they can't be reused, but rather they are used for one specific purpose. A protection sigil is for protection, not wealth for example.
A Few Types of Sigils
Destructive Sigil: This is a Sigil you activate by destroying it, this is not designed to destroy things. Ways you can activate it is like putting it on paper and ripping, burning, or soaking. Of course it's not limited by that, but it's a great example. Another could be incorporating it into your food design, and eating said food. Your limits are only limited by your ability to figure out ways to do it.
Temporary Sigil: These are ones that disappear over time. You can draw them on skin, carve them into candles, or doodle them in sand or dust. Like before these are only examples, as I'm sure there are more out there than this and I'm sure even more in your head! Charged/activated lots of ways, but if it's on your skin I'd suggest avoiding a method using open flames. Burning yourself isn't good self care.
Permanent Sigils: These are ones you keep and reuse over and over. They are crafted into things like carving them into stones, or wood for example. Or made as an art piece. They can even just be on paper you keep safely with you or in your home. The whole this is you keep it is all. You would charge and recharge them after creation to keep them working.
When I start showing the methods on drawing I will be walking you through the process with my own pens and paper. So if you have any suggestions for what Sigils you'd like to see used in the how to methods please suggest them or leave them in my asks! I want to start collecting them now so I'll have a good amount to choose from, from one's you'd like to see since those are coming soon!
Men: f*ck around > find out
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