New Moon Tarot Cleansing

New Moon Tarot Cleansing
The Tarot cards are little magnets.  If you have noticed that they need ritual cleansing, the New Moon is a perfect time to do the task.  Any other time is all right as well, such as the Full Moon, but the New Moon is ideal for its ritual purity and sanctity.  The ritual cleansing of the deck from all magnetic impurities should take about 35 minutes to do.  The Tarot itself will tell you it needs a cleansing.  If you read in public or at magnetically challenged areas, you may have to cleanse the deck more frequently.  If you only read for yourself, then maybe once every other month is more than enough.  Place the cards in a stack on your altar in front of you.  Take a deep breath, center the self and say, “Now we will cleanse the Tarot.”  Take a mildly damp paper towel and swipe the back and then front of the cards, one by one.  Mentally and intuitively visualize each card's magnetic purity.  Some cards will have more accumulation on them than others.  You will know.  As you are gently cleansing the card (this should only take a matter of seconds) you should find it helpful to also meditate on the meaning of the card.  If new ideas come into your mind, then take notes on these ideas.  As you wipe the card off, place it in its respective row in front of you.  This means that the Majors go with Majors and the Swords with Swords, and so on.  It is nice to see the cards in front of you, as they form a magical union with each other and protect the card that is currently being cleaned.  Once all of the cards have been wiped clean of magnetic impurities, it is time to order them.  Starting with the Major Arcana you will order the deck.  Place the Fool 0 before the Magician and order them so that the Fool is seen at the bottom.  It is okay if you do this the opposite way as well.  You will learn so much as you go that it is best that you establish your own comfortable manner of making the Tarot your own method, but some aspects of it are so standard that they cannot be altered.  The Minor Arcana and Courts can be assembled in various ways, but the author has placed his earlier tonight as Majors then Swords, Cups, Pentacles, and Wands with the Courts in each suit behind the numbers in the order of Knaves, Knights, Queens and then Kings.  Some decks have Princesses or Pages and sometimes you may wish to have the Queen as the ruler, behind the King.  Once again it is up to you how you deal with your own Tarot, but Nature will guide you to the most proportionate harmony of the deck according to your own charisma.
By: John Gilbert nxxs.org Noumenal Extrasensory Existent Society 11/22/14