Donnaleigh de LaRose (Tarot and Lenormand educator extraordinaire and owner of cool birds and cute dog) asked a really cool question on Facebook the other day. What draws you to the cards?, she asked. For me, two things: The stories, the myths they reflect of the human desire to understand the intangible; the power they […]
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30-Day Lenormand Challenge—Q 20
Welcome to our walk in the Lenormand Park! Depepi’s question for number 20: How do you feel when reading the Lenormand? Is it a different feeling compared with you reading the Tarot? Yep, definitely. It’s going to take awhile, that’s for sure. Some readings come together nicely into phrases describing potential activities to be aware of, […]
30-Day Lenormand Challenge—Q 18
A welcome bark and dog dance from the Dog card (loyal, friendly, dog, friend)! And Depepi’s 18th question is interesting: Do you think the cards have a life of their own? How do you connect with them? Ultimately they are bits of paper, but the energies surrounding and running through cards, people, the Earth, the Universe […]
30-Day Lenormand Challenge–Q 14
Depepi’s next question has contributed a lot to the debate over how to use this oracle: How much emphasis do you put to the text-book meanings/ explanations/ combinations? How much emphasis do you put to your own intuition? Tricky question, kind of like the Fox himself (see card at left). I take a traditional view of […]
Wildwood Tarot, Revisited
Mark Ryan, John Mathews and Will Worthington’s WildwoodTarot: I got it, I got confused, and, well, annoyed. Read on, though. There’s redemption in the end. 🙂 Here’s the “rant”: I didn’t like the authors’ “agenda” particularly, even though I agree with a lot of it for us moderns. Well, from the prefaces, looks like its […]
30-Day Lenormand Challenge—Q 6
Pepi Valderrama‘s next question prompt: What do you like the most reading (or with which do you feel better reading): the Tarot, or the Lenormand? I feel much more confident with the Tarot, of course, because I’m more familiar with that system, and it allows more visual/intuitive interpretation of individual cards, rather than a series of […]
Marseille Dictionary
And herewith, my dictionary for the Marseille deck. I’ll also post this under the Dictionaries section of the site for future reference. My sources for these keywords and phrases come from AndybC’s Tarot theory and the companion book to the Universal Tarot of Marseille by Lee Burstyn. Please keep in mind when perusing this list […]
30-Day Lenormand Challenge–Question 1
Pepi Valderrama has taken a wonderful idea from Rhee, a Tarot reader over on Tumblr, to ask questions about each person’s journey with their oracle over a 30-day period. I’ve been working the Tarot questions over on my Cosmic Whispers Tarot blog and will delve into Pepi’s Lenormand questions here. The first question: How did you […]
