Genna
I sure do appreciate your advice and help! Everyone always has something to offer. I think you do as well and I am so thankful that you took the time to respond.
I am definitely going to start a Lenormand Journal as I think I will need that to remember all the combinations and how each card can mean something.
I have been frustrated also by the 'book meanings" not making sense to the question asked. What do you do then? I would think intuition, but there was a big blow up thread about that. I just am confused at if the book meaning doesn't make sense to the question or the subject.. how to make it fit? Or could it be that it is saying another message? I tried that with one reading, but that didn't make sense in that case either. lol
You are definitely more experienced than I am. lol Do you read often? Do you do practice readings to help you or just more still doing personal/daily draws? I ask because I want to do practice readings with people on the boards, but I am so confused that I honestly think it will take many months to really be able to feel like I actually know what I am doing or understanding it. That is why I asked about you.
Did you buy a deck of regular playing cards and write the names of the Lenormand meanings on them to help you out? I'm thinking of doing that the same time as I am learning the Lenormand cards thinking if I do both at the same time.. maybe it will help my understanding better. Like using playing cards with no photos if they are throwing me. lol What are your thoughts on that?
Sorry for so many questions love! I am just really out of my element in Lenormand.
Hugs,
BeyondtheVeil
Hello! You´ve got so much good advice here from people a lot more experienced than I. I have read Rana George´s book and then Caitlin Matthews. It has a lot of exercises after each chapter, and that really helped. Rana George´s chatty style with examples from her own life really helped too.
As for deck,I would buy one I loved, but it is true that you need to see fast what each card means in a GT. Buying an ordinairy deck and writing the Lenormand meanings sounds like what I guess Mlle Leormand actually did.But in that case, remove the cards that don´t belong to a piquet deck; 2,3,4 and 5. And remember playing card inserts in Lenormand are read differently than cartomancy with ordinairy playing cards. I know most don´t believe Mlle Lenormand came up with the Lenormand deck, but that it was a board deck from 1799 that was the original, but I like think she did. She had the knowledge to do it; she told fortunes in piquet, coffee tea-leaves, eggs, she did the GT. All her papers and things to do with divination were burnt directly after her death.
I read a lot for myself, but that is more difficult, I find, although you have to do it to practice. I like Caitlin Matthews tip to read for historical persons like Mary, Queen of Scots using 5 card spreads. Also read for the outcome of elections, other news or for fictional characters in books and films. And read for yourself every day, even if it´s one card spreads at first. Write down everything you think the card foretold. Get another a book and give every card two pages.
I read 3 cards every morning, 5,7 or 9 in a string if I´m worried about something, and a GT if I´m really worried. I also often do a "portrait" spread; 3x3, where the card in the middle is central.(9cards). I don´t use the playing card inserts now.
There is one free internet page that gives the meaning of every two card combo; sorry I don´t know how to link to it, and my first deck had a book sold separately; Mysterious Lenormand, that did the same, but now I find two cards can mean many different things. I guess you should not limit yourself to what it says on a page.That are just examples.
I`m sorry if I´ve repeated what the others said. I´m sure you will do well.
Love and Light, Genna.