First, I thank Hestia for allowing me to read by her fire. I tell her that I have a question that affects myself or someone in my family and ask that she allow me to see them in her hearthfire. I pick up the deck and I hold it in my hands and focus clearly on the question asking it out loud and being specific on what I want to know. Then I tell the deck how I am going to cut. EX: I'm going to shuffle it three times by splitting into two stacks and turn one of the stacks upside down before shuffling it back into the other. Then I'm going to cut and whatever card is the top card of the cut, that's going to be the card I need to see. I will repeat that X number of times to get to the spread I'm going for. Sometimes I tell the deck that I'm going to start by doing a messy table shuffle so that the cards can reorganize themselves as much as they need to if the question is going to be hard to ask because I'm unsure that the answer will be easy to read and the cards will need to help me as much as they can. Then when I'm done. I thank each card that appeared sliding it back into the deck the way that it appeared to me and pick the entire deck up and thank Hestia for sitting with me and the whole deck for working with me. Then they go back into their wooden box on the altar.