So, how to move forward from feeling I know a fair bit, but not enough about Lenormand cards…. My first step is a large leap backwards!
By joining various forums and facebook groups, I soon realised that the meanings and use of the cards I have been using are one interpretation, and a simplistic one (in my opinion).
I was driven to known the origins, and root source of the Lenormand oracle.
In my searches I found images of the deck at the British Museum… and I spent ages online and in my mind, virtually pressing my nose against the museum cabinet glass!
These were published in the early 1800s by G.P.J. Bieling of Nurenberg, Germany, and this deck was bequeathed to the British Museum by Lady Charlotte Schreiber in 1896, a lady of nobilty who donated to museums on more than one occasion … but it is interesting that her ‘playing cards’ she kept till her death, and bequeathed them afterwards. This makes me believe that they were something she truly valued.
Were these the ‘original’? Who really was Mlle Lenormand and what is her true relationship with the deck?!
Yup – the more I learn, the less I realise I know!
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