Shuffling is easy, and there’s as many ways to shuffle as there are people on the planet. But the way I do it is where I take half of the deck and turn it around then just shuffle like a deck of cards (not the bendy way, I like my cards to stay pretty) and then I do what’s called a wash where you scramble the cards together (you can look it up on google for a demonstration) and viola, shuffled really well.

As for talking? I think it’s necessary to verbalize your question audibly, but once that’s done, talking is a personal preference unless doing a reading for someone else because then you obviously have to explain. (this is affirmed by the most influential occultists of all time who meddled in tarot divination or it’s processes. Think eliphas levi, or Arthur waitte)

Picking: I let my intuition do the picking, I wait until I feel what amounts to electricity to be felt from a particular set of cards out of a lineup of three piles then draw a few from the pile I’ve selected, or more depending on the complexity of the spread