Full Description
More than 200 years old, the 36 Lenormand cards are an oracle combining standard playing cards with images from the everyday world, such as key, book, animals, and flowers. Their simple, predictive, and non-esoteric nature opens the realm of fortune-telling to all, offering a traditional cartomantic divination where card combinations fuse together to give clear answers.
In this complete guide to Lenormand card reading, Caitlín Matthews explains the multiple meanings for each card, providing keywords so the reader can quickly build an interpretive vocabulary for Lenormand fortune-telling. She details how to lay spreads, starting with 3 or 5 cards and building to the Grand Tableau spread, which uses all 36 cards. She explores the significance of the playing card pips and suits on each card and how cards combine to create a variety of meanings. Matthews enables readers to learn the Lenormand card keywords so they can both read for themselves and express their interpretations to clients. Providing real case histories for readers to interpret, she also includes self-tests and practice exercises with answers to check at the end of the book.
In addition to her comprehensive practical introduction to the Lenormand oracle, Matthews delves deeply into the history of cartomancy to reveal the mythic blueprint that underlies this simple deck, the key to which lies not in their imagery but in their connection to playing cards.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction The Return of the Traditional Oracle
Part One
Learning the Craft of Lenormand
1 Learning the Language of Lenormand
2 Lenormand Lexicon
3 Creating Sentences with Pairs and Triplets
4 Storyboard
5 Taking the Portrait
Part Two
The Playing Card Insets
6 Waking the Pips
7 The Art of Cartomancy
8 Secrets of the Lenormand Universe
Part Three
The Art of the Grand Tableau
9 The Piquet Tableau
10 The Grand Tableau of Nines
11 Near and Far Method
Part Four
Lenormand in Practice
12 Expanding Fluency
13 Becoming the Storyteller
Appendix I Key to the Practices, Spreads, and Studies
Appendix II Order of Practices, Spreads, and Studies
Appendix III Quick Reference
Notes
Bibliography
Resources
Index
About the Author
