Lenormand Cards: Playing with Fortunes
Divination and Fortune Telling by the I Ching or Chinese Classic Book of Changes
The most popular oracle card sets are those that contain 32 or 36 cards, each with an immediately recognizable and emotionally evocative illustrated image of some facet of life, such as a dog (Faithfulness), a woman in mourning clothes (The Widow), or a bride and groom (The Marriage).
Gifted cardreadersandhoodoocard cutters are psychics who can use playing cards, gaming decks, oracle cards, angel cards, Spanish cards, Gypsy cards, tarot cards, or personal card decks that have specifically designed fordivinationto providedivinatory psychic readingsthat address the querents specific problems, situations, or conditions. Generally speaking, a number of cards are pulled from a shuffled deck and arrayed on a table. This array is called a layout — and it may contain from one or three cards to the entire deck. There are almost as many forms of layout as there are types of decks of cards. Most readers prefer certain decks and certain llayouts, so when you go to a series of card readers, you may find that each one uses different cards or a different layout than the others.
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Oracle card readings are extremely popular in Europe as well as America, and most of the decks published in Europe are supplied with descriptive sub-titles in six or more languages. If your cards are read by a rootworker who uses a deck of this type, you will be able to follow along with the reading very easily, as the images are so straightforward that their meanings are clear even to a person with little experience in fortune telling.
There are many different methods used to read playing cards for clients, and also many forms ofcard layouts or spreads. Some readers who work in person require the querent to shuffle, cut, and choose a stack, or to simply shuffle and cut; in other systems, and when working by telephone, the cards are handled exclusively by the reader.
Tarocchi playing card decks which have remained in use for gaming: this category includes the Austrian Tarock and the French Tarot de Marseille;
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In the context ofdivination, or card readings, tarot decks have diverged into three main categories which are distinguishable by their origins and composition:
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Card reading is one of the oldest and most popular forms of consultation with asoothsayer, diviner, or seer. Those who tell fortunes with cards are called card readers or cartomancers and their clients are known as querents or sitters. Querents may either come in for a general reading or they may show up at the reading with a question of particular importance to them.
In some Lenormand decks the graphic images are relatively small and are worked into and around the regular design ofpips; in other sets the image takes up most of the space on the card and a miniaturized playing card design is inserted at one corner or top center of the card.
By the 21st century numerous novel and theme-based tarot decks were published for the public, some of whom set about collecting them. It became a convention to enclose a little white book in the box, along with the cards, that explained the arcane nature of the deck and its symbolism to the prospective reader. In addition, many how-to-read-tarot instruction texts were written that offered to inform the interested how to go about using the cards for fortune-telling, meditation, andspell-casting.
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Telling Fortunes With Playing Cards
Half-way between the austere geometric designs of playing cards and the abundantly graphic images of Oracle cards is the middle-ground occupied by Lenormand-style cartomancy decks. Named after Madame Lenormand, who told fortunes for Napoleon Bonaparte, these sets were originally designed as a 32-card euchre deck, to which images were added as a form of mnemonic. There are also 52-card Lenormand poker sets, as well.
Occult decks constructed by esotericists along traditional lines of magical association and symbolism, often extending from gaming card motifs into creative hermeticism: the most popular of these are the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot and the Harris-Crowley-Thoth Tarot;
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Tarocchi is a trick-taking card game that was invented in the mid-15th century in Italy. It is known as tarock in Austria and Germany, and as tarot in France. There are 78 cards in the deck, arranged in foursuits, plus extra non-suitedtrumps or trick-taking cards. There are 40 numberedpip cards, 16court cards, and 22trump cards.
The Lenormand deck consists of the regulation number ofpip cardsandcourt cardsfor the deck, but each card bears an evocative image, in addition to thepips, much like those found in non-suited oracle cards. Furthermore, most Lenormand cards are numbered sequentially according to a system devised by Madame Lenormand.
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Themed artistic decks with diverse symbolism and aesthetic execution, some presenting the images from the popular Rider-Waite-Smith deck in novel guises, such as the Magical Forest Tarot, in which all the familiar characters are cute cartoon animals. and others created by adapting well-known artistic images for the purposes of crafting a deck, such as the Alice in Wonderland Tarot, in which all the images are adapted from the original illustrations to Alice in Wonderland.
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During the 19th and early 20th centuries, a wide variety of cards decks were developed in Europe specifically for fortune telling. Called oracle cards or Gypsy fortune telling cards, they were never intended for use in card playing, but were instead specifically designed fordivinatorypurposes.
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A fortune teller reads the future in the 1898 painting Its All in the Cards by Harry Herman Roseland
Divinationwith cards may be considered a spiritual practice; many readers keep their cards on or near theiraltarand to treat them with reverence. Card reading also quite often includes conventions borrowed from secular gaming or card tricks, such as shuffling and cutting the deck, using only a selected portion of the cards, or the distribution of the cards into a tableau orlayout, a tradition taken from solitaire or doubles-play. There are many differentlayout or spreadsused by card readers, ranging from simple three card cuts and rows of seven cards, to elaborate 12 card wheels and multi-card cross-patternspreads.
Because most decks of playing cards are designed to look the same from either end, there are no reverses or inverse meanings in a playing card reading, and each card has only one ascription. However, manyplaying card layoutsrequire the reader to take into account the cards that border on or touch one another in thelayout, and these pairings will greatly modify the meaning of any given card. For example, if The Queen of Spades adjoins the Two of Cups, it is foretold that there will be love and romance, but the woman may outlive the man and spend much of her life as a widow.
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can use the cards to foretell the past, describe the present, or predict the future; to provide a general character analysis or life reading, to give an annual year reading of things to come within the next 12 months, or to answer specific yes or no questions.
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Tarot cards were turned toward occult purposes in the latter part of the 18th century with the publication of Monde Primitif by Court de Gebelin. In this work he and the Comte de Melet imagined that the cards were the Book of Thoth, a tome of wisdom and magic whose contents revealed mystic secrets and disclosed untold mysteries. From that time forward people have written books explaining the ancient origins and occult character of tarot, such as Gerard Encausse (Papus, who wrote The Tarot of the Bohemians); or painted arcanetrumps, like those done by Oswald Wirth; or created new esoteric card sets in the form of tarot, such as Jean-Pierre Aliette (Etteila), Pamela Colman Smith (with Arthur Edward Waite), Lady Frieda Harris (with Aleister Crowley), and Jesse Burns Parke (with Paul Foster Case).
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The French Cartomancy deck is a typical Lenormand style pack offortune tellingcards that can also be used for playing games
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With the revived interest in occultism in the latter 20th century, and the successful publishing and marketing efforts such as those of Stuart Kaplan, tarot cards not only became a standard fortune-telling tool, but they were promoted as a qabalistic and meditative spiritual transmutation device by which one might come into communion with holy mysteries and ascend on the planes to heights of mystical glory. Their popularity led to the proliferation of deck types and their repeated appearance in popular media, such as in the production of Ian Flemings James Bond novels and motion pictures, and in dramatic television series.
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Card reading, along withPalmistry or Hand ReadingPsychic Reading or Clairvoyance, andNumerology, is among the most popular forms of fortune telling in the United States. Some card readers combine other forms of divination with cartomancy. Among the most common of these combinations are card reading plusNumerology, in which the numbers on the card faces are taken into account, and card reading plusPendulum Divination, in which the cards that have been selected or pulled are used as impromptupendulum boardsand yes/no questions are asked and answered about the characters or situations shown on the card faces.
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Each of the cards has a traditionaldivinatorymeaning, although not all readers use exactly the same system of ascriptions. For example, typical fortune telling symbolism assigns the Two of Hearts to love and romance matters, the Queen of Spades to a widow or older woman, and the Ace of Diamonds to good financial prospects.
Before beginning the reading, it is fairly common for the reader to identify a card from the deck to represent the client. This will often be a face or court card, sometimes similar in general appearance to the client or keyed to the client by age and birth date, orastrological sign of the Zodiac. The card that represents or signifies the querent is called the significator card and its placement within the layout indicates the condition of the querent with respect to other forces or characters, which are symbolized by cards laying atop and alongside it.
Card readers often set up in small store-front shops; 1960s-era sidewalk signage from Atlantic City, New Jersey
The most traditional form of card reading inhoodoouses a regular deck of playing cards. The deck may be a 32-card Euchre deck, a 48-card Spanish deck, or a regulation 52-card Poker deck, depending on the readers preferences. No matter the number of cards in the deck, most such card packs consist of two types of cards,numbered pip cardsandillustrated court or face cards.
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Lenormand Cards: Playing with Fortunes
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The Piatnik 1901 Gipsy oracle card deck is among the most populardivinationcard sets of its type in America and Europe
Variouslayoutsmay use all of the cards in the deck, or only a portion of them. Specificspreads, such as the ever-popular three card cut, may be used to describe the persons past, present and future, or to give a broad look at what is to come. A spread called the one card draw may be employed to answer a specific yes or no question. Other commonspreads, employed when addressing a life reading or a complex situation, may involve positioning the cards into a large rectangle, a pyramid shape, or into three stacks.
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, is a widely practiced form ofdivinationin which predictions for the future and revelations about hidden matters are made based on the images revealed to thereaderthrough the manipulation of a pack of shuffled cards.