🕯️interviewing your deck🕯️

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!)