Lenormand & Standard Playing Cards

Switching from Titania's Fortune Cards, that have simple images only, to the Mystical Lenormand and other standard decks, I was faced with the numbering of each card, and the reference on each to a card in a standard deck of playing cards.

So what's that all about? ;)

Here's my initial way of seeing the correlation:

The Original Lenormand - Das Spiel der Hofnung

I haven't quite worked out why, but I'm driven to known the origins, and root souce of the Lenormand oracle.

In my searches I found images of the deck at the British Museum...

I was so captivated by these images, as if I was pressing my nose up against a virtual museum cabinet!

These were published in the early 1800s by G.P.J. Bieling of Nurenberg, Germany, and this deck was bequeathed to the British Museum by Lady Charlotte Schreiber in 1896, a lady of nobilty who donated to museums on more than one occasion ... but it is interesting that her 'playing cards' she kept till her death, and bequeathed them afterwards.  This makes me believe that they were something she truly valued.

Welcome

Welcome to my Learning Lenormand Blog

My name is Beth, and together with my husband, Graham, I run Rainbow Spirit crystal shop in Wadebridge, Cornwall, UK.

I have been using cartomancy for about 10 years now - with tarot and Titania's Fortune cards on a personal level, and crystalomancy cards that I use when giving readings to others in our shop.

The readings I give reflect my background in alternative/holistic health care.  I'm a homeopath who defected to crystals, and my purpose is to assist others in identifying and recognising their core symptom, so that they can then work out and find a way back to balance, harmony and well being.

My interest in Lenormand stemmed from the Titania deck.  It was on a search-for-something amble around the internet, and discovered that her Fortune cards were based on Lenormand.... and then the journey began.

I am now fully immersing myself in learning Lenormand so that I can help others more, and with greater clarity on the issues that confront them.

Come along, and enjoy the experience with me! :)