DIY Friday: Traditional Lenormand (playing cards)

Welcome to DIY Friday! Intimidated by the Tarot? Let me offer you an alternative: the Petit Lenormand! It has only 36 cards, and there are no reversals to learn because Lenormand cards are always read right side up. Don’t worry about the illustrations; artwork doesn’t figure into a reading. And because the illustrations do not affect the core meaning of each card, the quickest and most inexpensive way to get into reading Lenormand is to make your own deck from a regular pack of playing cards. No artistic skills required!
Lenormand Oracle
By Laura Tuan
Published by Lo Scarabeo, 2013
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Matilda Lenormand
By Lynn Boyle
Based on designs by Johann Kaspar Hechtel in Germany circa the 18th Century
Self-published, 2017
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Celtic Lenormand
Written by Chloë McCracken
Artwork by Will Worthington
Published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc., 2014
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The Burning Serpent Oracle: A Lenormand of the Soul
Conceived by Rachel Pollack & Robert M. Place
Artwork by Robert M. Place
Self-published, 2013
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Fairy Tale Fortune Cards
By Liz Dean
Illustrated by Bev Speight
Published by Cico Books, 2012
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The best books on Lenormand are:
1. Lenormand Thirty Six Cards: Fortune Telling with the Petit Lenormand
By Andy Boroveshengra
Self-published, 2014
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2. Petit Lenormand Encyclopedia (three volumes)
By Björn Meuris
Self-published
Volume 1, 2018. ISBN: 9781984398581
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Volume 2, 2018. ISBN: 9781983957758
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Volume 3, 2020. ISBN: 9798678972132

[@LightscavengerTrip]

The best Lenormand explanation so far, straight and crystal clear. Thank you very much

[@deebochaton3354]

Thank you for this, it has been really helpful.

[@LupitaRodriguez-lm7jj]

Thank you Georgina. You are a great teacher!♥️

[@lotte7171]

Georgina, I love this instruction video and look forward to more! Thanks 😘

[@georginatoland]

You are so welcome! :-)

[@tuulistewart5875]

This was great!! And fun :)

[@mooshboint]

Looking forward to the next video, thanks!

[@johnnymac4997]

yes, another in the series of excellent recent posts

[@Miss_Deeds]

Hi Georgina! I thought a couple of years ago I read that you weren’t going to use this platform anymore?! I searched for you and I think there was only like two videos on there.. so I stopped looking. Then today I decided to look again and here you are! Were you ever gone or could I just not locate you?

[@georginatoland]

UPDATE (3/3/24): Alas, Vimeo was not a good fit for my content. I’m back on KZbin for the time being. ------------ I was off the platform for a year, but many of my issues with KZbin’s policies were revised and changed to something I could accept. But in the meantime, I built a channel on Vimeo. The great thing about Vimeo is that there are NO ADS! ❤️ And I upload videos early there. (Some videos are Vimeo exclusives.) vimeo.com/georginatoland

[@emilyseagle8638]

I love lenormand, it’s the only style I really use/ have used. My gf and I like to joke that I like it bc I’m autistic and it’s a straightforward style of reading 😅😂

[@vorthora]

It's funny, but I have a lot more difficulty with Lenormand than with Tarot! 😅

[@georginatoland]

You are not alone in that! The strict rules for reading Lenormand cards usually trip up long-time readers of Tarot. I struggled at the beginning, as did my fellow Tarot reader friend Fred. But we persevered and now we both teach Lenormand. ♥️

[@ladyofthenight2869]

Tiny hand gang 😈🙌🏼🫶🏼

[@shashakeeleh5468]

Love Lenormand & your instruction! Question: You refer to a "significator" card; I must have missed that lesson. Is this a card you pull from the deck & set aside to represent the querent?

[@georginatoland]

A Lenormand significator card is treated differently from those in Tarot. It is never removed from the deck, but allowed to appear (if it wills) in the body of a spread. Cards nearby wherever the significator appears are considered "close" and have a different meaning than if they appear "far" away from the significator card.

[@shashakeeleh5468]

@@georginatoland Got it! Thank you!

[@vorthora]

But truth be told, I prefer smaller cards like my Rider Waite or Bluebird Lenormand than oracle cards. Why do they have to make them so darn large? I've got tiny hands.

[@georginatoland]

I’m right with ya there! Many Oracle decks have huge borders, too. Like why?!??

[@vorthora]

@@georginatoland Yeah! They're so hard to shuffle! The only way I shuffle to my taste is dividing deck into 2, and putting one stack vertically on top of the other. Never side shuffling.

[@barbarahren5208]

HELLO everybkdy! Its great idea for ones who love ordenery deck cards, super to made coneccions. Its here someone who can give some link who talks only of ordenery cards? Thanks.

[@georginatoland]

There are many systems that use ordinary playing cards. Lenormand uses some, but not all, of a deck of 52 playing cards. Some people use the meanings of the Tarot’s Minor Arcana with regular playing cards. (I do this frequently.) And then there is the Vera Sibilla, which uses the entire deck of playing cards. I have just begun a series on that system. You can see it here: kzbin.info/aero/PLuJKkoVWPHNThLmH_KH0cmuYz5PFgvpgG

[@georginatoland]

There is also Skat cards and Spanish cards…but I am not knowledgeable enough to teach those systems.

[@lotte7171]

Georgina, could you advise some Lenormand books?

[@georginatoland]

They are listed in the video description.

[@lotte7171]

@@georginatoland oops, forgot to look there! Just checked and found them here in the Netherlands. Thanks!

[@georginatoland]

There really used to be a separate video…but it went out of date when better books were published. So my error! Sorry. 😊

[@lotte7171]

@@georginatoland but the two books you mention are the ones you recommend? Or are there newer ones?

[@georginatoland]

Those are only ones. Boroveshengra’s book and the 3 volumes of Bjorn Meuris’ Encyclopedia.

[@specialk8927]

Gender fluid😮