When to clear

Timing. After you have read for someone else. After a raw self-reading. When the week has been loud. When you cannot tell your mood from the cards. When you want to start, and a small mark would help. That is enough of a list.

If you clear constantly, you train fear. If you never close, you leak. The skill is noticing leftover weather without getting dramatic about it.

A story that will not get off your chest. A room that still feels like the last conversation. A deck you have been using as a fidget. A fifth spread urge. Those are times. A quiet Tuesday is not an emergency.

Match the method to the need. Hands and window for most days. Sound or a walk after someone else's grief. Rest overnight after a loud week. If you cannot stop carrying people, that is a boundary practice, not a product you have not bought yet.

A mark that fits the day. Then you look, or you stop. Clearing so you can begin, and so you can leave.

Clearing as anxiety. Never feeling allowed to touch the deck. Clearing instead of having the conversation. Using methods that make you more scared, which means they are not working.

You did three cards. You did not like the weather. The urge is to pull another spread, then clear, then pull again. Timing would have been: this is the reading, I will journal, I will not ask again today, hands, window, stop. That is respect for you and for the tool.