Hi everyone. Welcome back to the channel. Thank you as always for tuning back in. If you're new here, welcome! I'm Layla, the Lenormand Reader, and I am one of the few people who focuses almost exclusively on Lenormand’s cards.

Today, I want to talk about a technique that I like to use in my layout...

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the channel. Thank you for tuning back in. Today I want us to look at a technique that we use in a Grand Tableau called transposing. Transposing is one of the many techniques we can use in a Grand Tableau.

Obviously, this is a very big spread, it uses all 36 cards, and...

NOTE. In this post, “Guidebook” refers to the booklet accompanying the Game of Hope deck, and “Game” is short for the Game of Hope deck.

The Game of Hope is often mentioned in association with Lenormand’s cards. 

Why is that?

Because the Game of Hope is made up of exactly 36 cards that have th...

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Hi everyone! Welcome back to the channel and thank you for tuning in. If you're new here, welcome I'm Layla, the Lenormand Reader, and today folks, we are doing Part 2 of the Signifiers tutorial video.

So if you didn't watch Part 1, I'm going to link it here. Have a...

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In the same way that we use the Man and Woman to represent the reading, we can use any Lenormand card to represent a topic or a question. I call these cards "signifiers", and in this video, I want to tell you a few things about what signifiers are and how I think the...

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I believe there are two key features of the Lenormand method that make it totally unique: (1) Card combinations and (2) Tableau-style layouts. The two are related. And I've explained this in another video so you might like to check it out. In this video, I want to te...

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Any of us starting with Lenormand will notice that it has two special cards: The Man and the Woman. These two cards have little meaning on their own, so what exactly are they used for?

Let’s look at these two cards more closely in this video.

The Man and Woman are ...

The Blue and Red Owl decks are the classical decks of the Lenormand Petit Jeu. They have important insets on their cards.

Insets are smaller parts of the overall design that offer different bits of information about each card. Each card in the Red and Blue Owl decks has three insets, in addition to...

The one thing that we immediately associate with Lenormand is the Grand Tableau. This isn’t surprising because reading this 36-card layout is pretty much the pinnacle of the practice.

“Tableau” means “portrait” in French, and “Grand Tableau” means “big portrait”.

It’s large and intimidating not on...

Anyone who has used a Lenormand deck or examined one knows that its cards are ordered by their number, starting with the Rider as card 1 and ending with the Cross as card 36.

I always found it tricky to memorize Lenormand’s card numbers. It’s even tricky to look them up in a guidebook!

That’s beca...

Lenormand is unlike any deck you’ve seen. Truly, it’s just about as unique as divination cards get.

The Man and Woman aside, just about every card is an object that seems to have been randomly picked from the world around us. If they weren’t from our everyday landscape, we probably wouldn’t know wh...