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Lua Lenormand Available Now!

10/5/2020

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Prepping Lua Lenormand pre-orders! I'm going to start processing Lua Lenormand pre-orders (orders that only had a Lua Lenormand purchase) this week, so look for an email with tracking info soon. I'm planning to ship all Lua Lenormand pre-orders by the end of the week. □□□□✨ ⠀ If you ALSO pre-ordered the Lua Tarot, your Lua Lenormand (mini or poker size) deck will ship along WITH the Lua Tarot once they arrive. ⠀ LUA TAROT PRE-ORDER NOTE: Lua Tarot decks are still on their way to my front door. I am still expecting them sometime between October 16th to 19th. ✨□□✨ I’ll let you know if this changes. ⠀ If you have any questions, please let me know! ✨□□□

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Lua Lenormand Release with Lua Tarot

8/20/2020

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There are 16 significator cards that come with the Lua Lenormand deck! During the creation process of the Lua Tarot, I had been setting aside images that would work for a traditional Lenormand deck. And so, after the Lua Tarot's completion, a matching Lua Lenormand was birthed. Let's call it an unexpected twin. ☺️ ⠀ The pre-order sale is still open! The Lua Len will be available in two sizes, mini & poker. ⠀ The amount of pre-order interest for the Lua Len will guide me on how many of these Lenormand decks I should print. Sooo...if you do like what you see, I invite you to join in the pre-order sale. □✨□✨□✨□✨□ ⠀ Thank you for supporting indie! ✨□□✨ ⠀ #celebratediversity #luatarot #lualenormand #lenormandreadersofinstagram #divinemuses #tarotcommunity #lenormandcommunity #lenormandcards #indiedeck #indiedeckcreator #deckcreator #divination #lenormand #lenormanddeck

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Keep it Simple, Sibyl. K.I.S.S. Tips & Tricks to Flow through the Grand Tableau.

12/19/2019

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I'm excited to be presenting again at the NW Tarot Symposium 2020. This time on the Lenormand's Grand Tableau, the queen of the Lenormand layouts. The class, Keep it Simple Sibyl, K.I.S.S. Tips & Tricks to Flow through the Grand Tableau, is Sunday March 9th at 9:00am. I will also have a vending table at the Vendor's Bazaar where I'll be selling my decks all weekend.  Looking forward to year 6!! 
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Happy Halloween! Show & Tell. 

10/31/2016

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Hey Ho,
It's Halloween!
When all the Witches 
are to be seen!
Some in black 
and some in green
Hey Ho for Halloween!

Happy Samhain! Here's something a little different—a leisurely browse through some 

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Fortune-Teller from Tbilisi, Georgia

4/15/2014

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A fellow card reader, Judy Kerr, posted this video in our study group and I just had to post it here too.  You will see her old pack of Dondorf Lenormand cards are so well loved that some of the cards are taped together to keep from falling apart.  The well-worn deck appears to have been passed down to her?  This woman is beautiful, and I love her rings! 
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Le Fanu's Destroyed Dondorf

3/29/2014

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A "show and tell" of the recent Lauren Forestell & Le Fanu Lenormand collaboration.

http://gameofhopelenormand.bigcartel.com/

Here's Le Fanu's wonderful blogpost about the cards:  http://mycuriouscabinet.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/the-destroyed-dondorf/
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Flonz Victorian Lenormand - Walkthrough

2/21/2014

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I just received my copy of the Flonz Victorian Lenormand by Katherine Andrews and instead of just opening it on sight, I had to unwrap it on video. :)  There's a bit of an impromptu review too. 

This is a very special deck.  What makes it unique is the stamped Lenormand images. What makes it remarkable is that the stamp images were hand drawn by Katherine herself. Flonz is the stamp-maker and as you will see his work is precise. 

The Flonz Victorian Lenormand has an extra Lady and Gentlemen card as well as an extra 

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Monthly Lenormand Reading

11/4/2013

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In this video I share my Monthly Lenormand Reading for the month of November 2013 using my Antiquarian Lenormand deck. 

This spread idea is from Malkiel Rouven Dietrich, an amazing Lenormand card reader, teacher and author from Germany that I adore.  You can find more videos from him at http://www.youtube.com/user/MyMalkiel


Thanks for watching!
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The Game of Hope

5/12/2013

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PictureJohann K. Hechtel (1771–1799) {clickPicture}
The petit Lenormand as we know it today was based on an earlier card game called the Game of Hope that was created in Germany by Johann Kaspar Hechtel in 1799.  He was a German businessman & designer of parlor games including the prototype for the Petit Lenormand. Click picture at left to take you to the Wikipedia page. 

Instead of one playing card insert, this deck had two at the top, one of a French style, the other German, that accommodated various styles of play. The familiar Lenormand images we see today were the primary pictures. This pack was easily carried by travelers or soldiers that could create a spur-of-the-moment board game by laying out the cards 1-36 in six rows. Dice & tokens were used to move from one card to another. Interestingly, the directions that came with the deck also included instructions for a fortune telling game that could be laid out in the same way as the traditional Grand Tableau spread.

Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin, authors of  Learning Lenormand: Traditional Fortune Telling for Modern Life, recently licensed Das Spiel der Hofnung (Game of Hope) from the British Museum and had the original instructions translated from German to English by Steph Myriel Es-Tragon.  If you would like to know how to play, you can download a PDF of the instructions from the original Game of Hope from their website: http://www.tarotprofessionals.com/newlenormand/ scroll down to find the link.


UPDATE: It appears that the file cannot be found on their website.  Here is a pdf download of the translation by Steph Myriel Es-Tragon to share with those who are having trouble finding it on the Learning Lenormand website. 

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Josephine Meets Mlle Lenormand

4/15/2013

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Mademoiselle LeNormand
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Josephine Beauharnais
I found a book that describes in a couple chapters Josephine Beauharnais' very first visit with Marie Anne LeNormand:  The Romance of Alexandre Dumas from the D'artagnan Edition, Little Brown and Co, 1894.  The Les Blancs et Les Bleus (The Whites and the Blues) Volume 2, written by Alexandre Dumas in 1867-1868. Chapter 28, The Sibyl and Chapter 29, Fortune-Telling.

The chapters recount the social call that Josephine and her Spanish companion, Therese Cabarus (Madame Tallien, the daughter of a famous Spanish banker), make to the famous sibyl of Paris, Mademoiselle Marie-Ann Lenormand.

The excerpt below is from Chapter 28, The Sibyl, pages 28-31:
   
    "Which of you desires to come in first, Mesdames?" She asked.
    "Can we not go in together?" asked Madame de Beauharnais, quickly.
    "Impossible, Madame," replied the Sibyl. "I have sworn never to read the cards for one person in the presence of another."
    "May we ask why?" asked Madame Tallien, with her usual impulsiveness, we might almost say her usual indiscretion.
    "Because in a portrait which I had the misfortune to draw too true to life, one of the two persons whom I was receiving recognized her husband."
    "Go in, go in, Therese." said Madame de Beauharnais, urging her friend.
    "So I am always to be the one to sacrifice myself," said the latter. And then looking smilingly at her friend she said: "Well, so be it, I will risk it."  And she entered.
    Mademoiselle Lenormand was at the time a woman from twenty-four to twenty-nine years of age, short and stout in figure, vainly attempting to disguise the fact that one shoulder was higher than the other; she wore a turban adorned with a bird of paradise.
    Her hair fell in long curls around her face. She wore two skirts, one above the other: one was short, scarcely falling below the knees, and pearl-gray in color; the other was longer, falling in a short train behind her, and was cherry colored.
    Beside her, on a cushion, was her favorite greyhound, named Aza.
    The table upon which she made her experiments was nothing but a common round table covered with a green cloth, with drawers in front, in which the sibyl put her different materials. The cabinet was of the same length as the salon, but narrower. On each side of the door was an oak bookcase filled with books. Facing her seat was an arm-chair for the person who was consulting her...

...when Madame Tallien came out.  "Ah, my dear," she said, going straight to her friend, without seeing the Incroyable, who was seated in the shadow, "ah, my dear, go in quickly. Mademoiselle Lenormand is a charming woman! Only guess what she predicted for me!"
    "Why my dear," replied Madame de Beauharnais, "That you will be loved, that you will be beautiful until fifty years old, that you will have love affairs all your life-."...
 ..."I shall have all of that, my dear, and,  furthermore, if I am to believe our sibyl, I shall be a princess!"
    "I congratulate you, my beautiful princess," replied Josephine, "but I do not see that there is anything more that I can ask for; and I should probably never be a princess, and as my pride already suffers at being less beautiful than you, I will not give it this other subject for envy, which might make us quarrel."
    "Are you in earnest, dear Josephine?"
    "No, but I will not expose myself to the inferiority which threatens me on all sides. I leave you your principality; let us run away!"
    She made a movement as if to go, and to take Madame Tallien with her; but just then a hand was placed lightly upon her arm, and a voice said,-
     "Remain, Madame; and perhaps, when you have heard me, you will find that you have no occasion to envy your friend."
    Josephine greatly desired to know what could be in store for her so great that she need not envy a princess; she therefore yielded, and in her turn entered Mademoiselle Lenormand's cabinet.

The snippet below is from Chapter 29, Fortune-Telling, page 32

    Mademoiselle Lenormand made a sign to Josephine to sit down in the chair which Madame Tallien had just vacated, and then she drew a fresh pack of cards from her drawer, - probably so that the destinies of one should not influence those of the other.         Then she looked fixedly at Madame de Beauharnais.
    "You sought to deceive me," she said, "by coming to consult me in vulgar attire. I am a somnambulist, and I saw you leave a hotel in the centre of Paris.  I saw your hesitation about entering my house; I saw you finally in the ante-room, when your place was in the salon, and I went to look for you.  Do not deceive me; reply frankly to my questions, and since you come in search of truth, tell the truth." Madame de Beauharnais bowed.  "If you care to question me, I am ready to answer."...
 
    Apparently Josephine and Therese showed up disguised as femmes-de-chambre, chambermaids. :) 

    In summary of the rest of  Chapter 29,  Dumas describes the reading in some length detailing out the meaning of the cards the Mlle pulled.  In a nutshell, the sibyl says to Josephine, "It would be impossible to find a more fortunate throw of the cards, "   She tells Josephine that she shall have two children (a son and a daughter); that she shall have "the respect and the affection of the whole world."; that she will be the wife of "this Hercules stifling the lion of the Nemean forest" (Napoleon Bonaparte) and that she will be Empress!  Of course, Josephine believes none of it.  After the session ends, she tells Therese as they are leaving the parlor, "that woman is crazy!"  Obviously she has a change of heart as she would consult the sibyl again in the future.

Interesting to note is when Dumas wrote his book, it was a few  years after LeNormand's death but he said that this account was indeed true as he received the story directly from Mlle LeNormand's friend & student, Madame Moreau.
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