🕯️interviewing your deck🕯️

zianara:

pleiadic-magic:

i recently got gifted a beautiful new deck, and whenever i get a new deck, the first thing i do is bond with it! one of the ways i do that is holding a little interview session with it.

you’ve probably seen hundreds of ‘deck interview’ spreads, and they’re all really helpful! however, i find them a little limiting. i tend to use a different, more conversational method of interviewing my deck. i talk to my cards, pull cards when i feel an answer is ready, and just keep going and pulling cards as i go until i’m satisfied i know the deck well enough to proceed! here are some useful questions i tend to use for this.

• who are you? (how do you see yourself?)
• how do you see me?
• what are your main goals?
• how do you view life?
• what’s your main characteristic?
• what can you teach?
• what kind of questions do you struggle with?
• how should i continue with you?
• what can you offer me?
• what will the outcome of our relationship be?
• what do you think i need to know?
• how can i achieve that?
• what do you want from me?
• do you want to be used for others?
• do you want to be used for paid readings?
• should i read reversals?

from these questions you can get a scope of how the deck answers questions, its nature, whether it’s optimistic/pessimistic/realistic, whether it sugar coats or gives it to you straight… honestly, interviewing new and even old decks is invaluable.

also, this way i manage to get a feel for how the deck likes to be handled. all my decks like to be shuffled, cut and stacked in different ways – handling them how they like for me tends to give more accurate and helpful readings!

(if you like this post and want to support me, i offer paid readings and handmade goods here at my etsy store! please check it out if you have the time. thankyou!)

Holy crap. This was an awesome thing to do with my cards. I learned a lot, but I also feel more emotionally attuned to my cards. I would highly recommend giving it a go!