Table of Contents
A Lenormand Story to Whet Your Appetite 1
Who the Hell Am I, Anyway? 3
How to Use this Book? 10
Abbreviations: 14
Start Here 16
What is a card system? 17
What is intuition? 18
1 Grounding/Earthing: 20
2 Clearing and Raising your Vibration: 20
3 Mindful Breathing: 21
4 Connecting to Alpha: 23
5 Protection: 27
6 Setting your Intention: 28
7 Closing: 29
Killing your Mojo 31
Shuffling and Drawing Cards 101 33
Standard shuffling methods: 33
Drawing methods: 34
Systems? We Don't Need No Stinking Systems! or Do We? 36
Layers of Meaning and How Do You Decide Which to Choose? 41
Lenormand: The Game of Life 44
Theme Groups 50
Topic/Object/Life-area: 50
Cards that explain or describe: 51
Movement/Change: 52
Fixed/Resistant to Change: 52
Descriptive Groups: 52
Work: 52
Relationships: 53
Communication: 54
Well-being: 55
People: 55
The Numbers Game 57
Playing Card Insets 59
How can we use the insets? 60
Playing Card Insets Quick Reference 61
The Fish Always Means Money… Until it Doesn't Why We Don't Want to Pigeonhole Cards in Lenormand 64
Fish Card Examples: 66
Can the Mice Eat the Mountain? Can the Scythe Kill the Mice? Will the Coffin Bury the Scythe? 68
Sex: The Lily or the Whip? 71
Lenormand Positive-Neutral-Negative 74
The 36 Cards 77
1 Rider/Cavalier/Knight 78
2 CLover 82
3 Ship 86
4 House 91
5 Tree 95
6 Clouds 101
7 Snake 105
8 Coffin 109
9 Bouquet/Flowers 113
10 Scythe 117
11 Whip/Rod/Birch 121
12 Birds/Owls 125
13 Child 130
14 Fox 134
15 Bear 138
16 Stars 142
17 Stork 147
18 Dog 151
19 Tower 155
20 Garden/Park 160
21 Mountain 164
22 Ways/Crossroads/Path 168
23 Mice/Rats 173
24 Heart 178
25 Ring 183
26 Book 187
27 Letter 192
28 Man 197
29 Woman/Lady 201
30 Lily 205
31 Sun 210
32 Moon 215
33 Key 223
34 Fish 227
35 Anchor 232
36 Cross 237
It's all about the Question 242
Yes/No Questions 246
A Question Sampler 251
Question Ideas by Theme: 252
Rephrasing Common Questions: 253
Lenormand Timing 255
Timing assignments: 261
Start with Three Cards 264
A Narrative Reading: 265
Paired Reading: 266
Charged Focus Card: 268
Uncharged Focus Card Reading with Middle Card Focus: 270
Focus Card Reading with First Card Focus: 271
Past Present Future (PPF) Reading: 272
Lines of Five and Seven: 273
Houses and Multiple Decks for Small Spreads 274
Houses in small spreads: 275
The Art of Tableau Reading 277
Variations of a Basic Cross Spread 279
How to Read a Basic Cross: 279
5-card cross variations with a preselected significator card (SC): 279
The 9-card cross: 280
Extended Cross Spread 281
Box/Portrait Spread 284
Interpretation Steps: 285
A Box Spread Example 289
The Pyramid Spread 290
Cause and Effect Pyramid: 290
Preselected Significator Pyramid: 291
The Pyramidal Yes/No Spread: 292
The Inverted 11-Card "When" Pyramid: 294
My Signature Spreads 296
1 My Extended Box. 296
2 The Party No-Table Reading 299
3 The Conflict Resolution Spread 300
4 Quick and Easy Options Spread 302
5 A Quick and Easy Cross Spread 303
Spreads for Animal Communication 306
Physical and Personality Traits Spread 307
Compatibility Spread 308
A Grand Tableau for Animals 309
Specific Types of Readings 312
Connecting with the Spirit World 313
Example: 313
Performing Health Readings 315
My Health and Well-Being Meanings 317
Chakra Quick Reference Sheet 327
Animal Communication with Lenorm and the Basic Procedure 330
Steps for connecting to animal energies: 331
Card Steps: 333
Tips and Advice: 334
Animal Communication Keywords 335
Missing or Lost Objects, People, Animals 343
Spread ideas: 344
Some missing object keywords: 344
A fun exercise to try: 349
Baby Steps Toward Grand Tableau Mastery 351
Grand Tableau (GT) Steps 355
Position Meanings in a Grand Tableau 363
House Meanings 369
Mod/Method of Distance/Near-Far Steps 373
General steps. 373
My Life-Area/Theme Cards: 374
Distance Rules For Individual Cards: 375
A MOD Example: 383
How Am I Doing? GT 386
An Example. Jean's Reading: 389
A Quick How am I Doing GT Based on Chaining Houses 391
Let's Play Connect the Dots! 393
Tips and Steps for Using Extra Cards 396
Extra card GT example: 398
All Good Things Come to an End 401
