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This post brought to you by the one time on Reddit when I posted in r/tarot saying I don't believe my decks have their own spirits, and I got replies saying it's okay that I don't believe divination is real and they accepted me anyway.

You should/must bond with your tarot deck

You need to cleanse your deck before you use it for the first time

You need to cleanse your deck every time you use it

Never let other people touch your tarot deck or it'll lose it's powers

Always let the querent handle your deck or else your reading won't work well

You need to include reversals

Reading with reversals is invalid

Tarot decks need to be stored in a special way

Tarot decks need to be charged before they will work

Your tarot decks have a special spirit that will stop helping you if you offend it

Cards that "jump out" of the deck must be given special treatment or must be included in the reading

You always must lay cards facing the querent

You always must lay cards facing yourself

You can't buy your first tarot deck or you'll NEVER BE ABLE TO DO READINGS EVER BECAUSE GOD SAID YOU'RE STEALING POWER FROM THE UNIVERSE AND IT HAS TO BE GIFTED TO YOU AS A SIGN THAT YOU'RE ALLOWED TO BE A READER OR ELSE YOU'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND A THIEF

• I don't understand "bonding" with a deck. A lot of people do so much extra work to "bond" with their deck, such as sleeping with it under their pillow or on their bedside table. Why not just... use the deck? Doesn't getting to know the cards create that "bond"?

• I literally only cleanse my deck when I feel like it needs it. Otherwise, I just knock on the deck 3 times and go on with my readings.

• I'll admit I'm a little stingy with my decks, mostly because I have an irrational fear that people might damage the cards. That's my own personal issue tho lol

• ??? "Always let the querent handle your deck or else the reading won't go well"? What Sabrina Spellman said this? Tf?

• Reversals are a personal choice. You don't need them. I just like to include them because I feel they help clarify information.

• I literally have all of my decks stacked on one shelf in their original boxes. The decks probably don't care how you store them as long as they are safe from being damaged.

• Charged? Seriously? Sleep helps recharge people, yes? Then it's safe to assume that not using your deck for a while will give it time to recharge.

• "Special spirit"... I mean, way to ignore the fact that there are atheist and agnostic readers. Don't know who came up with that one.

• If a card "jumps out", it probably jumped out because you are shuffling aggressively and clumsily. Put it back. If it jumps out a second time then reconsider.

• Nah man, I'm gonna lay the cards facing me and verbalize what position the card came out it. The querent can wait to see all the cards.

• This ongoing bullshit about needing your first deck to be gifted to you honestly just sounds like gatekeeping.

Enola Holmes, 2020