 Join me in my grand tableau class that I will be presenting at the NW Tarot Symposium in March. 9 steps to hone the GT and answer your, or your client’s, questions. The GT can easily become overwhelming, but in this presentation, I will share how to unpack this classic layout and...Keep It Simple Sibyl! I am really looking forward to this! Will you be there this year?
I'll have a booth in the vending hall, which is free to attend! I'll have all of my decks and books for sale. AND...I'll be showing the progress of my two latest decks that I'm currently working on. If you're planning on attending, please come by and say hi! Register for my grand tableau class at the NW Tarot Symposium in Portland, Oregon, March 6th-8th. This is year six of NWTS! ⠀
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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!
 Trimmed mini Antiquarian Lenormand cards, first miniature seance set The message is to stay connected to your community (Garden + Ring), to keep socializing and networking with each other. Try to avoid the temptation of isolation this time of year. During this period it will be important to commit to your community and social life. We need each other during the darkest time of the year. These connections bring us abundance (Garden + Ring + Fish) and the realization that our prosperity is very much associated with the commitment we make to community. What we put in we get back in overflowing abundance.
I put together this adorable mini cartomancer kit a few years back. I de-bordered my mini Antiquarian Lenormand and it fits nicely inside the Ouija mints tin with an orange spread cloth, two mini candles, and little matches, along with a tiny crystal ball, bell and quartz wand. Happy Samhain! Here is something a little different—a leisurely browse through some Halloween decks in my collection. A kind of creepy fun Show and Tell. Grab a cup of something hot and spiced—this one is almost half an hour long. I hope you will enjoy this video of me chatting about some wicked tarot and oracles.
Here are the decks mentioned in the video: 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!
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/ I just received my copy of the Flonz Victorian Lenormand by Katherine Andrews and did an unboxing video, walkthrough, and initial review.
This is a very special deck. What makes it unique is the stamped Lenormand images. What makes it remarkable is that the stamped images were hand drawn by Katherine herself. Flonz is the stamp-maker and as you will see his work is precise.  Johann K. Hechtel (1771–1799) 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 and 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. |
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