Helpful Witch Tips For Mental, Emotional, And Spiritual Health

Helpful witch tips for mental, emotional, and spiritual health ✨🌹🌙

Liam Ashurst

A Detailed Guide to Cleansing Your Tarot Deck

How often should I cleanse my deck and why?

Between every in-depth reading you do: they require a lot of energy and focus and can heavily impact the energy around your deck

When you get a new deck: you don’t know who has handled the deck before you or what energies surrounded it

If someone touches your deck: their energy can be easily transmitted through physical contact (which you could potentially use to your advantage if you’re reading for them)

When you see multiple cards from a recent previous reading appear in your current reading: a sign that the energies of the people you are reading for are becoming muddled

At different times of the year - equinoxes, full moons, first day of a season: routine cleansing is a great way to keep your cards in good shape

If you haven’t used it in a while: old, built up energies need to be cleared to help “wake up” your deck after it’s been sitting unused

How can I clean my deck?

With a cleansing sigil: place the deck on top to the sigil and write “Negative energy” or “Old energy” for removal

Passing through some sage smoke: sage is a great all around cleanser!

Shuffling while focusing on cleansing: shuffling reorganizes the cards and is a quick method for cleansing in between consecutive readings

Place a clear quartz on top: quartz, especially when charged with light from a full moon, absorbs negative and foreign energy really well

With the light of a full moon: the full moon represents new beginnings and holds strong cleansing power, place on a window sill overnight 

Meditation with a focus on cleansing: sit near or hold your deck, close your eyes, focus on your breathing (count your inhale as 1, exhale 2, inhale 3, etc until 30), then imagine a white, cleansing light enveloping your deck

Make a salt circle around your deck: can get kind of messy, but the salt will absorb negative energy, make sure to dispose of it after!

Put the cards in order (by suit, element, number, or astrology): sorting your deck will give it a fresh start, make sure all the cards are upright as well!

Knock three times: another quick way to cleanse or “wake up” your deck, especially great for after you haven’t used your deck in a while

Candle properties

black: grounding, wisdom, learning, protection, safety, hex-protection, banishing negativity.

brown: house blessing, animal magick, earth magick, stability, earth element, food financial crisis

gold: great fortune, abundance, divination, fast luck, solar energy, positive attitudes

gray: glamour, contemplation, removing negativity

green: prosperity, abundance, money, acceptance, weather, luck, marriage

lavender: intuition

light blue: spirituality, peacefulness

orange: creativity, self-expression, overcoming addiction, investments, celebration

pink: love, compassion, nurturing, emotional healing, protection of children.

purple: wisdom, influence, independence, breaking habits, spiritual power.

red: passion, strength, danger, conflict, fire, fertility, vitality

silver: stability, intuition, communication, moon magick

white: all purpose, unity, purity, cleansing, balance, truth, consecration

yellow: pleasure, imagination.

Hot chocolate Magic

Wether someone needs a Hug-in-a-mug, warmth on the soggy days or some symptom relief; Spelled Hot chocolate can be a wonderful way to bring some calm and love into your day. There are a few different things to add to your drink to alter focuses.

Cinnamon for self love

Chili powder for warmth/passion

Chestnut syrup for comfort

Vanilla essence for premoting calm thoughts

Ginger for nausea relief

Mint for fresh starts

Ginger bread syrup/crumbs for increased creativity.

Speculaas spices for happy/nostalgic memories

And if you have it; food safe glitters can be used for colour correspondences or to add some “sparkle” in your life.

You can use whipped cream,syrups or other additives to draw sigils for added focus. Pouring over the boiling water/milk will charge these.

I have one large brimmed mug that I use specifically for hot chocolate; either for me or used for someone else.