In the past, people have asked me to do skype readings for them, and asked me to shuffle the cards, while they look on, a world away. And all I got was mud. I really need you to shuffle the cards, that's where the magic lies for me. So in order to do a reading with me, you need to have access to a tarot deck. You can use one you already own, borrow one from a friend or buy one. Often people get a new deck solely to have a reading with me.
I ask that if you get a new deck, break it out on the day you get it and start shuffling immediately. It will feel strange. The cards are new and sticky and they are also weirdly large (nearly twice the size of a normal playing card) and it's not easy or smooth to move them around.
That's why I ask that you shuffle them and rearrange them for about 5 - 10 minutes a day, three to four days before our reading, so you get the mechanical order out of the cards, and get your own energy into them.
Any way you want to shuffle is fine - some people crack them like card sharks, some people smoosh them around, some people are painstakingly thorough, some people spill them out and pick them up again. All of these are as good as each other.
If you are borrowing a deck from a friend, just make sure you shuffle them frequently, so that they become yours. And then get your friend to reshuffle them when you return them.
