Now, you may be aware that there’s not one but two distinct sets of oracle cards in circulation that bear the name of Mlle Lenormand. One is the Petit Jeu de Mlle Lenormand, which is what we are mostly talking about when we talk about “Lenormand” these days; the simple 36 cards I mostly talk about here …
The Grand Jeu de Mlle Lenormand vs The Petit Jeu: What’s The Difference? Read More »
How do YOU actually tend to use your cards in practice? What is it at heart that you want to get from them? And what is the “right” way to do so? Depending on how traditionalist you are, you’ll find that there is more than one way to use your cards in practice. More than …
As you’ll be aware, the Grand Tableau is a complex spread, or at least has the potential to be, with a lot of additional techniques you can use; Houses and Knighting in particular in order to tap more information. The 9 card spread (or 3×3 or Box spread) is actually a small part of a …
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If the person querying is a woman, one starts from sheet 29, spinning a jocular tale from the cards nearby around the figures on display. If it is for a man, the tale is started from sheet 28 and again makes use of the cards surrounding this one. This will bring much entertainment to any …
As there’s so much out there about Lenormand now, books, websites, approaches, even rivalries, many readers new to Lenormand cards get anxious both about whether they’re doing things “right” (in the sense of having confidence because they’re new to the cards) or learning the “right way” or not. This issue has several aspects. I’ve tried …
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So let’s get back to basics for a bit. I haven’t really covered this, as most of my visitors come to Lenormand from Tarot, and I’m assuming that most readers therefore already have a method of shuffling their decks and cards that they’re comfortable with. If this is you, carry on. If, however, you’re find …
So to follow on from my recent posts on Traditional Meanings and the Near/Far method in the Grand Tableau, we turn to the next, inevitable, question. What different results might we see if we read the Grand Tableau using the traditional meanings and near/far method (e.g. “Philippe Lenormand” instructions) compared, for instance, to more modern methods …
Comparing “Traditional” & “Modern” Grand Tableau Results: How Do They Differ? Read More »
And a Happy New Year 2021 to all my readers! I’m not entirely convinced given this week’s events in the States, to be honest, as well as us here in the UK with our lovely “British strain” of corona, but am keeping my fingers crossed that 2021 will somehow manage eventually to be an improvement …
Following on from my previous post about Near and Far Meanings in”Traditional” methods of reading the Grand Tableau, I now want to go into how you might actually set about reading the cards in this way, because it’s quite different from how more modern readers might read this spread. (Take a look at my main …
“Traditional” Grand Tableau II: A Reading With Near & Far Meanings Read More »
As I mentioned in my last post, the instructions that came with most Lenormand decks from the mid 19th century onwards were the so-called “Philippe Lenormand” instructions. These were printed with the Game of Hope cards when they were rebranded as Le Petit Lenormand after the famous French fortune teller. They gave a particular way …
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