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CORNER CARDS IN LENORMAND LAYOUTS card combinations grand tableau interpretation techniques lenormand layouts video tutorials Jul 03, 2023

Hi everyone. Welcome back to the channel. Thank you as always for tuning back in. If you're new here, welcome! I'm Layla, the Lenormand Reader, and I am one of the few people who focuses almost exclusively on Lenormand’s cards.

Today, I want to talk about a technique that I like to use in...

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TRANSPOSING: HOW TO COMPLETE PORTRAITS IN A GRAND TABLEAU grand tableau interpretation techniques video tutorials May 18, 2023

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the channel. Thank you for tuning back in. Today I want us to look at a technique that we use in a Grand Tableau called transposing. Transposing is one of the many techniques we can use in a Grand Tableau.

Obviously, this is a very big spread, it uses all 36 cards,...

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THE GAME OF HOPE decks & authors grand tableau lenormand layouts lenormand pips Jun 22, 2022

NOTE. In this post, “Guidebook” refers to the booklet accompanying the Game of Hope deck, and “Game” is short for the Game of Hope deck.

 

The Game of Hope is often mentioned in association with Lenormand’s cards. 

Why is that?

Because the Game of...

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SIGNIFIERS (PART 2) card meanings grand tableau interpretation techniques lenormand layouts lenormand pips nine-card portrait video tutorials May 14, 2021

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Hi everyone! Welcome back to the channel and thank you for tuning in. If you're new here, welcome I'm Layla, the Lenormand Reader, and today folks, we are doing Part 2 of the Signifiers tutorial video.

So if you didn't watch Part 1, I'm going to link it here....

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SIGNIFIERS (PART 1) card meanings grand tableau interpretation techniques lenormand layouts lenormand pips positive negative neutral video tutorials May 10, 2021

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In the same way that we use the Man and Woman to represent the reading, we can use any Lenormand card to represent a topic or a question. I call these cards "signifiers", and in this video, I want to tell you a few things about what signifiers are and how I...

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TABLEAU-STYLE grand tableau lenormand layouts video tutorials Apr 18, 2021

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I believe there are two key features of the Lenormand method that make it totally unique: (1) Card combinations and (2) Tableau-style layouts. The two are related. And I've explained this in another video so you might like to check it out. In this video, I want...

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MAN AND WOMAN: THE LENORMAND SIGNIFICATORS card meanings grand tableau lenormand layouts video tutorials Apr 04, 2021

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Any of us starting with Lenormand will notice that it has two special cards: The Man and the Woman. These two cards have little meaning on their own, so what exactly are they used for?

Let’s look at these two cards more closely in this...

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NEAR AND FAR decks & authors grand tableau interpretation techniques lenormand layouts Aug 30, 2020

The Blue and Red Owl decks are the classical decks of the Lenormand Petit Jeu. They have important insets on their cards.

Insets are smaller parts of the overall design that offer different bits of information about each card. Each card in the Red and Blue Owl decks has...

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WHY THE GRAND TABLEAU IS CHALLENGING AND HOW YOU CAN GET STARTED WITH IT grand tableau lenormand layouts nine-card portrait Mar 14, 2020

The one thing that we immediately associate with Lenormand is the Grand Tableau. This isn’t surprising because reading this 36-card layout is pretty much the pinnacle of the practice.

“Tableau” means “portrait” in French, and “Grand Tableau” means...

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LENORMAND CARD NUMBERS card meanings card numbers grand tableau Feb 02, 2020

Anyone who has used a Lenormand deck or examined one knows that its cards are ordered by their number, starting with the Rider as card 1 and ending with the Cross as card 36.

I always found it tricky to memorize Lenormand’s card numbers. It’s even tricky to look them up in a...

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7 STRANGE FACTS ABOUT LENORMAND card combinations decks & authors grand tableau lenormand pips Sep 07, 2019

Lenormand is unlike any deck you’ve seen. Truly, it’s just about as unique as divination cards get.

The Man and Woman aside, just about every card is an object that seems to have been randomly picked from the world around us. If they weren’t from our everyday landscape, we...

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