Hello All! Today we are looking at how Grand Jeu Leornmand is broken down. The cards reflect 5 sections, and each section covers a component of daily life. These sections can offer more information in both small and large spreads, and some have the ability to mark special calculations. The five sections are: The Golden Fleece representing Commerce or Business The Trojan War representing Strength over Weakness The Hermetic Sciences or Alchemy representing Marriage The Unseen, most texts refer to this as self-explanitory. The Order of Time representing the Zodiac The deck breaks each ..read more

Happy New Moon, Friends. I wanted to spend today talking a little bit about this deck, where it comes from, and what the stories can represent for us. We don’t have any record of what Marie Anne Lenormand’s personal cards looked like. They were hand painted and hand made - specific to her personal reading style. They had obscure imagery, featured various skill sets, and were said to be larger than traditional cartomancy decks. We currently have two decks that bear the Lenormand name, however with Petit Lenormand coming from a game and divination style called The Game of Hope - the Petit deck d ..read more

A lot of people who know me would never say I was the kind of person to be into Tarot or card reading or divination. This was intentional, as someone who did not feel comfortable sharing or even delving into my own practice with others. When I was young, I was put into Lutheran private school because I was younger than a lot of my classmates. My family wasn’t Christian at all, but my mom liked the “security” of a private school. As I grew older and became more aware that Christianity didn’t reflect my views in any way - but neither did Bhuddism, which my mom more reguarly claimed at the time ..read more

So, I wanted to take some time first to introduce this deck and speak a little about why I feel so connected with it. When we are lucky enough to experience synchronicities that feel important, we can ignore them or we can see what they have to offer. When I first began reading tarot in 2013, I was using a hand me down deck from a friend just to see what they had to say. Often, I was reading for friends in very closed situaitons - and the responses from people often left me asking what I had done to freak them out. I was just reading the cards we pulled, nothing more. This feeling of unease le ..read more

Hi there! So, I’ve finally made it to the point where I am able to start the Blog portion of Sophie Reads Grand Jeu Lenormand! The whole point of the Blog is two-fold - to provide more in-depth informaition about this amazing deck of cards and to provide a space for me to really be able to share what I want! I hope this is a beneficial space for learning about this deck as well as sharing thoughts on what we can learn from this type of Cartomancy. Sharing about this deck is so important to me, as much as I hesitate to call things a “Calling,” I feel very fortunate to be able to read this uniqu ..read more