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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...

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Hi everyone! Welcome back to the channel and thank you for tuning back in. If you're new here, welcome, I'm Layla, the Lenormand Reader, and today folks I want to tell you a little bit about how to do a past, present, and future layout with Lenormand's...

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If you’ve been following my channel, you know the nine-card portrait is a layout I use often.

In fact, it’s the layout that most of you prefer. When I surveyed our community for what layout I should use for our monthly forecasts this year, most of...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Reading three cards is the beginning of stringing Lenormand’s cards into sentences.

Mastering the short three-card line is often a turning point in our practice, because from there, we easily tip over into reading much longer lines like the ones we...

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Not sure what the best Lenormand technique to shuffle the cards? Stick with this video and by the end of it you will have several techniques at your fingertips, and you'll be able to choose the one that you like best.

Lenormand Readers have asked me...

The Astroclock is one of my favorite layouts. It is fun, easy, and gives me plenty of ideas for how to plan out the year ahead. If you haven’t seen me do an Astroclock, head over to my YouTube channel and look up the annual Astroclock video for your horoscope.

The Astroclock is a...

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...

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...