Has anyone ever done this, or would you do it?

 

https://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=169225

by Laura Borealis

 

I have done the unthinkable! Yes, you heard me. I have THROWN AWAY A TAROT DECK.

 

And I am not repentant! Let the castigating begin!

 

Or, you can use this space to admit that you, too, have done the unthinkable...

I have done this.  I threw away the Dark Grimoire Tarot, because it just had to go.  It creeped me out every time I looked at it, and I suspect it might have been bringing me bad luck (or else my negative feelings toward it were attracting bad vibes).  I guess I could have sold it, or given it away to someone who would have appreciated it, but I didn't want to pass on any negativity.  Still, it did feel disrespectful to the tarot in general to throw a deck in the trash.

Yup. Definitely done this with a few decks that felt like abominations. Won’t name them  ;)

No. Someone will ALWAYS want them. Even if only a few cards could be salvaged/be used. Art projects or whatever.

I had one deck that had such bad energy that wouldn't clear out no matter how much I cleansed it - it was like... A smokers house, where you clean and freshen up and that stale smoke seeps out of the walls and makes it gnarly again, no matter what you do. I eventually managed to "evict" the spirit housed in it, and kept it after that, but they was a time that I felt the best option was likely  to be destruction of the entire deck. It was so icky I couldn't, in good conscience, give it away.

Only two, and I've had a ton of deck over the years.

Robert Place's Saints Tarot which I finally turned into a vent my spleen project on the the commonplace destruction of children by the church and then burned the cards with pleasure.

 

the other I shouldn't have bought because I disagreed with the whole project from the start;) It met the burn barrel also, with pleasure.

 

I felt no obligation to share decks that disagreed with me so vehemently. I enjoyed their destruction so got my money's worth which is my right.