Okay, so you don’t really have to feed your cards, but it’s important to take good care of them so that they’ll continue to be able to tune with you properly. There are many different ways that people look after their cards, each as individual as the decks and the person that owns them. I have several decks now and each of them has a different way that I look after them depending on the deck and the way I feel it out.

I keep my Cosmic deck in a cloth bag that is patterned with lucky cats, and my Manga deck in a small wooden box with a pentagram on it. My Celtic Dragon deck, by comparison, is kept in a box that it came with, although I feel that it needs to have a cloth that is unique to it. My Witches Deck used to be kept wrapped in a rainbow cloth and then in a bag. When I’m not using all my decks they’re kept inside a wooden locked box so that my son can’t get to them and chew on them.

At least once a year I’ll do a full cleansing ritual on the decks and douse them in sage incense and do a sort of grounding on them. In between times I keep charged cleansing crystals in the box and will do additional smaller cleansing rituals if I feel they’re getting logged with people’s energies and not reading properly, but given most of the readings I’m doing at the moment are online or over the phone and not in person that’s not as essential as it was when I was working at the coffee shop and doing readings at college and they were constantly getting “manhandled”.

I’ve heard from others that they keep their cards on a mirror to reflect energy and catch it from the sun. Others keep their cards under their bathroom vanities, or on a high shelf, under their bed, or on their person at all times. It’s all in what you feel will work for your cards.

It doesn’t hurt to keep a quartz crystal with them to help the energy flow, or keep a sachet of cleansing herbs in their bag. It does hurt to wash them in the dishwasher or cleanse them with fire though. A lot of it is just common sense.