Over the years I’ve been a Lenormand reader (about 15 now, give or take) and learning and sharing and more about Lenormand cards, there have ALWAYS been some areas of contention within what’s loosely called “The Lenormand Community” about the “correct” meanings for cards, who is doing it right, who is doing it wrong, what methods should be used, what “counts” as “proper”, the “correct” or “serious” way to read Lenormand cards and what doesn’t. And as a result, every so often I find myself revisiting the same ground over and over, which is to look at the main cards where there tends to be conte ..read more

Do you only use the cards to “tell you what will happen” “what fate has in store” or do you prefer to use them as a guide to how YOU might create your own future? Lenormand: Fated Or Created? Without question, traditionally, Lenormand WAS just a fortune telling game, as you can see from how its Number One spread, the Grand Tableau, worked. After all, the Grand Tableau is not about questions other than “What’s In My Future?” While you can see what it says about different life areas like love, moneymaking, friends & family and so on, you can’t get it the spread itself to focus on the exact q ..read more

Happy Valentine’s Day! Now, a great many argue that sticking strictly to the traditional ‘Near and Far’ method, as outlined in the original Philippe Lenormand instructions, is the ONLY authentic way to interpret Lenormand Grand Tableaus. As you will be aware, I don’t agree that there is such a thing as a “one true way” and certainly not an “only” true way. Partly because as far as I’m aware, the precursor to the Lenormand Cards, the Game of Hope, did NOT use “Near and Far” meanings (they arose only when the cards were rebranded as  the “Petit Lenormand”)  BUT that doesn’t mean that t ..read more

  January is a time when many Lenormand readers will be looking to draw general readings for the year ahead, looking at different life areas, such as Work, Love & Relationships, Luck, Money, you name it! Most of the time, you won’t be asking specific questions beyond “What’s ahead?”, but more want a general overview of what influences are to come, or what you should be focusing on. Given different levels of reading experience, what are some different ways you can approach Year Ahead readings to look at different life areas? Here are some different approaches, depending on difficulty ..read more

In my post way back when about Ways To Increase Your Lenormand Accuracy, I mentioned that looking back on past readings and assessing them is one big way you can help improve the accuracy of your Lenormand readings in the future. And the end of the year, of course, is always a good time to take a look back at your previous readings for the year and see how they did! Now, I’ve written about this before, but it bears repeating, especially if you’re going to take a look back at any predictive readings you did at the start of the year. Here’s my list of five things YOU can learn from going ba ..read more

As we know, Lenormand and other oracle cards can be excellent at uncovering hidden details about situations and people. And there are various ways we can do this to identify who is who. But what happens if you get a situation where “something” or rather “someone” keeps coming up in readings, even if not necessarily all with Lenormand cards, that suggests you have an enemy working against you? I’m sure it’s happened to many of  you, and it’s certainly happened to me. In fact, I appear to have at least one such person right now! But who? What? Why? And how might we use our Lenormand cards t ..read more

So we’re back to everyone’s favourite Lenormand topic for readings… and of course, it’s LOVE! Lots of people have asked for Lenormand spreads that specifically look at the relationship dynamics between two people. And the post today is going to cover not only romantic partnerships but other relationships  and partnerships too. Now, we’ve already covered several love readings previously on Lozzy’s Lenormand.  You can check those out here: Lenormand Love Reading Examples 5 More Love Readings To Try But what I’ve got for you here is TWO additional layouts which do exactly what you’re as ..read more

Do you ever find yourself bored with doing the same old layouts with Lenormand and looking for more variety? Or are you maybe wanting to practice on as many shorter layouts as you can, try out your skills before you move on to larger Lenormand classics like the Grand Tableau? Now we know, most Lenormand short layouts can and should cover MOST types of questions, life areas, and situations you might have. But sometimes you might see a layout from another system and think, “Hmm. I wonder if I can try that one with Lenormand cards?” The good news is—you can! Trying out “Non-Traditional” layouts f ..read more

Now, as you’ll be aware, most “classic” Lenormand layouts are based on small sections of the original Grand Tableau layout. And the great thing about the classic short Lenormand layouts like 3-Cards, Lines of 5, and 9 Card Box Spreads is that they’re super flexible: you can pretty much apply them to any question,  life area or problem you want to ask about. For instance: A 3-Card spread, can give you a great snap overview a quick past, present, future, or the briefest of combined card reads, including asking the cards for a short piece of advice A Line of 5,  aka the 5-Card spread w ..read more

As you’ll know if you’ve been around here for a while, the so-called Petit Lenormand cards widely known as “Lenormand” today actually had very little to do with the famous French fortune-teller Mlle Marie Lenormand herself, despite all the marketing and mythos. She may have had access to them, she may have not, but they certainly were not created by her at all, nor, in fact, in France. The cards were instead a direct copy of a German parlour game  released in 1799 by a Nuremberg publishing house. The cards had been created by German card game manufacturer Johann Hechtel, (Hechtel also die ..read more