Padma
I like the Mystic Lenormand - but it makes me see dream images. LRichard, why do you find it disgusting, or rather, I am confused about *what* you find disgusting...?
The Snake card of the Mystic is a well known very positive mythological symbol, the Orphic Egg, but the Lenormand meaning is very negative. It's like using a picture of Jesus to represent the Devil.I like the Mystic Lenormand - but it makes me see dream images. LRichard, why do you find it disgusting, or rather, I am confused about *what* you find disgusting...?
The Modern Minimalist LEN strips the pictures down to just the basic no-frills Lenormand symbol, but it's not much fun to look at. Reminds me of pages in a child's ABC book. (I think the LEN deck is making a statement about 'something'. )
Depending on the question and the reading, I have had the Snake come up as wisdom or knowledge before, but that's not what I usually see when I do a Lenormand reading. But it's all in the question, layout, and oh yeah, the reader helps. I think whatever works is great. Really isn't it about how the reader views the cards? A deck is just like a hammer sitting there til someone picks it up to build something. And the outcome of what is built justifies however the person holds and uses that hammer. I will not get into traditional vs intuitive reading of Lenormand, that's a no win situation. I'll just say readers should all do what works for them.
.....But bear in mind that you never read the art in Lenormand. If you do, you are not reading Lenormand but your own concoction using Lenormand cards.
That's precisely why I stored away all my Lenormand decks. I'm getting the Gilded Reverie because I like the pictures, just as I like the pictures in the Mystical. I've lost all motivation to read with them. I never did read them anyhow, I only read my own "concoction." Jeeze!