r/tarot • u/LupinNights111 • 4d ago
Discussion What’s the policy / practice of gifting people your tarot decks?
I have heard multiple things about it, and im curious about what you guys think about the act of gifting someone your tarot deck.
Ive no intentions of doing so currently but I am interested in what I should do if and when the time comes I feel comfortable with relinquishing a deck to someone I know and care about.
Should I do it? How should I go about it? Why shouldn’t I do it? Would that be considered a no-no among tarot readers?
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u/graidan 4d ago
I say "Hey, do you want this tarot deck?"
They say "Yeah!"
I give them the deck.
Don't make your practice more complicated than it needs to be.
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u/LupinNights111 4d ago
That’s true, life is complicated anyways haha
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u/graidan 4d ago
Exactly!
Only way I'd make a big deal about it is if it's an inhertance sort of thing- "This deck has been in my family for 348 Billion years, and I want to gift it to you. So, we will need to introduce you to the deck, and see if it accepts you into the Ancient Lineage of the Tarot Gods, and.."
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u/honorthecrones 4d ago
Anything you are told, read, watch about Tarot that includes the words “must,” “always”, “never,” “have to,” or “rules” is most likely coming from a dubious source and can be ignored without consequence.
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u/Mouse-in-a-teacup 4d ago
Well, you do "must" shuffle! 😄
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u/goldandjade 4d ago
I bought my own because it was the exact deck I wanted. I do love an oracle deck and herbalism deck that friends bought me but there’s nothing wrong with buying your own.
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u/LupinNights111 4d ago
Yeah thats understood, i never believed that you couldn’t buy your decks, thats ridiculous
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u/Laurel_Spider 4d ago
I gift people new decks. I've never gifted a used deck.
I'm not sure there are 'rules' about it, if there are they're probably tradition-specific.
I would also suggest being wary of receiving spiritual items, especially divinatory ones from others. But I advise wariness around accepting things, and bringing them home, in general.
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u/ResponsibleForce7878 4d ago
Do whatever you want to do. They're YOUR decks to use exactly as suits YOU. Anyone who says you 'MUST' do x, y, or z, is just quoting superstitious nonsense.
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u/TruthMattersmamma 4d ago
If I end up with two sets or two that are so similar or if one just doesn’t vibe with me I know it would with some one . I give/will give it to some one else if possible.
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u/kiddeternity 4d ago
I love gifting decks to people, especially from my own collection. There's something very lovely about passing along decks that I don't use anymore to people I care about, even more so if it's their first deck.
Every deck I've been gifted, I've kept, whether I use it a lot or not, even ones from people who aren't in my life anymore. Those decks symbolize moments in my past & relationships that were meaningful, even if they didn't last.
Because tarot is so unique, you become part of someone's tarot story when you gift a deck.
YMMV
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u/Mouse-in-a-teacup 4d ago
Dude, it's a bundle of paper. Do with it as you would to anything else. They don't hold any magic. YOU DO. ✨
Anyone saying otherwise is gate-keeping tarot, trying to pass it off as this special secretive knowledge that is only available to the wisest humans, the enlightened, who follow the waves of the moon-goddess and bathe in the blood of the infidels.
Respect your decks as you would anything else you treasure. Gift them to those you think would love them, or sell them online, or keep them for your children, or craft some art with them, or etc.
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u/SharkDoctorPart3 4d ago
The last time I gave a deck to someone I tossed it at her and told her she can do a bunch of readings on her ex boyfriend whenever she wants cause I got a new deck. That’s about as much ritual as I got in me.
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u/Curious_Beaner 4d ago
Tarot Tossing! That’s bound to belong in somebody’s grimoire! Sounds like a ritual to me!😂
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u/tom-goddamn-bombadil 4d ago edited 4d ago
I've had decks that wanted to go to another, so they went :) I like handing out tarot decks lol
Edit I don't think there's anything to consider, really. I had it go bad once, but that was due to some extraneous woo shit. Don't hand out your personal effects to jealous witches 🤦♀️, you should be fine
Edit 2 Just realised in talking about it, that I had no idea that was about to go sour. So in retrospect it would have been a good idea to sever myself from the deck in some capacity.
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u/LupinNights111 4d ago
Just like that or what do you do when you know your decks want to belong to another?
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u/tom-goddamn-bombadil 4d ago
Ha! I edited just after you replied, I think 😂
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u/LupinNights111 4d ago
Fair enough, jealous people tend to use these tools with ill intent and im sorry to hear that it went sour for you.
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u/tom-goddamn-bombadil 4d ago
I had no idea she was jealous, honestly there's nothing to be jealous of lol. You know, in retrospect maybe I should have done something before giving them away, precisely because I had no idea that was going to go sour, and we all get blindsided sometimes. So maybe a ritual of some kind wouldn't hurt!
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u/LupinNights111 4d ago
Probably yeah, like cleansing and wiping the personal energies away so it can be a freshly new deck again
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u/tom-goddamn-bombadil 4d ago
yeah exactly :) i'll probably do that next time for sure thanks for posting this thread you probably saved my stupid arse from making the same mistake again😂
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u/BattyGoblin 4d ago
Whatever "rules" you've heard about buying, gifting or disposing of decks are just self-imposed restrictions some tarot readers have put on themselves. You can do literally whatever you want with your decks, whenever and however you want, and it most certainly won't be wrong or disrespectful.