When you bring home your set of Your Animal’s Oracle cards (or any oracle cards), there are a few things that we advise that you do.

1. Clear excess energies that may have been picked up in travel and storage. You can do this a number of ways including giving the deck a good knock with your knuckles to ‘shake’ loose energies. You can also hold them in your hands and use your breath and intention to clear the energies. You might like to use a smudging stick to smudge them. Or you might like to place them on a bed of crystals.

2. Initiate the cards to your energy. Spend time with your cards, looking, touching and reading each one. Shuffle them around until you feel that the cards are attuned to your energy.

3. State your intention. Hold the deck of cards in your hands and close your eyes. State your intention for the use of the cards. For example, ‘I now ask to receive only the highest truth and clarity from these cards for my highest good’.

4. Store your cards in a loving manner. Your cards are in service to you. Store them in a designated place that is just for them, possibly alongside your other decks of cards, or crystals, or runes. Some people like to keep their cards wrapped up in a special scarf or inside a small bag. Whatever you do with your cards, your intention is to honour and respect them, and feel gratitude for the great work that they do.

Now you are ready to begin using your cards!