{"id":20467,"date":"2019-07-01T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T06:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=21787"},"modified":"2019-07-09T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:51:57","slug":"learning-lenormand-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2019\/07\/01\/learning-lenormand-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Lenormand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dreaming Lenormand<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nremember when I started learning reading Tarot cards over thirty\nyears ago. I had a deck of Rider-Waite cards and I would lay out one\nof several spreads on a daily basis \u2013 usually a Celtic Cross \u2013\nbut sometimes a Horoscope Spread or a Tree of Life Spread or some\nother spread I had just read about in a book I had just gotten out\nfrom the library. My diary is filled with these readings \u2013 some\nare ridiculously lame \u2013 since I obviously had no idea what the\ncards truly \u201cmeant\u201d and I was simply quoting what the \u201clittle\nbook\u201d said, trying to fit the \u201cmeaning\u201d of the card into the\nposition it landed in the spread and what I wanted to know. This\noften required some agile mental gymnastics on my part and often,\nwhen I am reading these works of psychological analysis today, I\ndon\u2019t know whether to laugh or to cry! But even though I was more\nconfused than not, some of the readings are quite astute. Right from\nthe beginning, I can see that I had a knack for reading the cards. I\ngave the cards nicknames and saw personalities in the cards \u2013 a\nlover of mine was the King of Cups and my best girlfriend was the\nQueen of Wands, for instance \u2013 the cards became profoundly close to\nmy life quite quickly. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started dreaming \u201cin terms of the tarot\u201d after I had been reading the Tarot for about six months or so. It\u2019s hard to say how I knew I was dreaming about the tarot but I always knew that I was dreaming about this card or that \u2013 my diary is filled with descriptions of these dreams. Many of these dreams became poems. I can confidently say that this is where my current Tarot poetry project was generated. Anyone who follows my silverapplequeen or no commas blogs on WordPress knows these poems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tI\ngot my first Lenormand deck around a year ago and now own four\nLenormand decks. Although the language of the Lenormand doesn\u2019t\ncome as easily to me as the language of the Tarot, I am beginning to\nspeak it with more fluency. I\u2019ll be honest \u2013 I don\u2019t practice\nwith the cards as often as I should \u2013 certainly not as often as I\ndid when I first started learning the Tarot. There are reasons for\nthis \u2013 my life isn\u2019t as dramatic as it was thirty years ago \u2013 I\nam not trying to figure out the motives and movements of husbands and\nlovers \u2013 I am not constantly changing jobs or homes or trying to\nbecome pregnant. I am now retired and my son is a grown man. I\ndon\u2019t have any lovers anymore nor do I desire any. Life is boring!\n And I like it that way! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tBut\nI love the cards and I love collecting them. Lenormand, Tarot,\nplaying cards \u2013 I am a card person. I love the feel of them in my\nhands. I have certain sets I actively look for. I think the Chelsea\nLenormand is beautiful and if I ever see it, I am jumping on it like\na duck on a June bug. I would also love to own the Blue Bird\nLenormand. Right now, I am working with the Fairy Tale Lenormand and\nthe Gaelic Lenormand. I also like the Lenormand Fortune Telling\nCards, with the little verse instead of the playing card insert. But\nI love all <\/em>of them. My main question with the Lenormand is\nthis: why is there no cat? There\u2019s a dog and a fox \u2013 that\u2019s\ntwo canines. But no feline energy. That\u2019s a big omission IMHO. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tI\nhad my first Lenormand dream a few weeks ago. I didn\u2019t know it was\na Lenormand dream until I was awake and thinking about the dream. I\nwas dreaming that I was in a giant mansion by the sea \u2013 if you have\never seen the HBO drama \u201cBoardwalk Empire\u201d, it was just like the\nCommodore\u2019s mansion \u2013 only darker and more gothic. There was a\ncoffin in the entrance \u2013 a green coffin \u2013 I remember the color\nvividly. I walked around the coffin and then out to the beach. \nThere was a maple tree on the beach. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I woke up, I thought I had just been dreaming about \u201cBoardwalk Empire\u201d \u2013 my son and I had been watching it for several days \u2013 I had even been dressed in 1920\u2019s formal wear in the dream. But after thinking about the dream more closely, I realized that it was a Lenormand dream. There were definite Lenormand images in the dream \u2013 the coffin, the house, the tree, and the woman. Although it can be argued that I didn\u2019t see the house \u2013 I was inside the house \u2013 it was still present in the dream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tAt\nthe time I had this dream, I was suffering from a terrible eye\ninfection. I looked like a deformed monster. I was in horrible\npain and I was horrendously depressed. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(The\nFairy Tale Lenormand)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThe\nimages of the dream \u2013 read in Lenormand cards \u2013 Lady, House,\nCoffin \u2013 say no more than \u201cThe Lady of the house is ill\u201d \u2013\nwhich made me laugh. No shit, sherlock! The tree told me that\nhealing would be coming \u2013 after all, in the dream, I am walking to\nthe tree \u2013 three weeks after this dream, my eye is healing,\nalthough very slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(The\nGaelic Lenormand)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nA\nfew nights ago, I had a very restless night with dreams that were\nunclear but very emotional. I know I dreamed of a man I loved\npassionately but who is now dead and gone. I also dreamed of a close\nfriend who betrayed me. Maybe they were the same person. It was the\nnight of the last full moon but it was a stormy night and with the\ncloud cover, the moon was hidden. Even so, her power was felt. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nI\nwoke up and thought about the dreams I had that night \u2013 even though\nI could barely see <\/em>them \u2013 I could feel <\/em>them. The\nGaelic Lenormand seemed to be the best deck for the dreams I had that\nnight. I used a \u201cLine of Five\u201d spread with the 29 Woman card to\nsignify myself in the middle. The 10 Scythe card paired with the 28\nMan card was the lover who was dead and gone. The 18 Dog card paired\nwith the 6 Clouds card was the faithless friend. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\n(Lenormand\nFortune Telling Cards)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tLast\nnight, I went to bed thinking about my novel. I have not written a\nword on this novel in two years but in the last few weeks, I have\nbeen thinking about starting work on it again. I woke up this\nmorning knowing that I had been dreaming about writing the novel \u2013\nthat I had found the perfect form for the story \u2013 that I was\nwriting easily and happily \u2013 that I had found the key. <\/em>I\nwoke up thinking those words exactly \u2013 the key. <\/em>But I also\nfelt really happy. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSo\nwriting is 26 Book and finding the key<\/em> is 33 Key and feeling\nhappy is 24 The Heart and I\u2019m not even sure why I picked out 4\nHouse except that to me \u2013 writing a book means a certain amount of\nsuccess and that means obtaining the home of my dreams. It all ties\ntogether \u2013 with me, 29 Woman, in the middle of it all. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway \u2013 these dreams have pushed my Lenormand practice into another level \u2013 which is really a good thing, because I needed something \u2013 my own life was too boring! Now, every morning, I wake up and think \u2013 where was I last night? Where did my dreams take me? What did I do in them? Who did I meet? And how does that correspond to the Lenormand? Then I get the cards out and try to make a story out of the dream using the cards. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn\u2019t. But it\u2019s sure fun trying!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nUntil\nnext month, Brightest Blessings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decks Featured<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fairy Tale Lenormand on Amazon<\/strong><\/a> by Lisa Hunt. US Games Systems, Inc. 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Gaelic Lenormand on Amazon<\/strong><\/a> by Diana Clark. http:\/\/amzn.to\/212x2ij<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Lenormand Fortune-telling Cards on Amazon<\/strong><\/a> Sterling Ethos. 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All photographs by Polly MacDavid.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

***<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About\nthe Author:<\/strong>\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Polly\nMacDavid<\/strong> lives\nin Buffalo, New York at the moment but that could easily change,\nsince she is a gypsy at heart. Like a gypsy, she is attracted to the\ndivinatory arts, as well as camp fires and dancing barefoot. She has\nthree cats who all help her with her magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her\nphilosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly\nbased in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan and she is solitary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\nblogs at silverapplequeen.wordpress.com<\/a>.\nShe writes about general life, politics and poetry. She is writing a\nnovel about sex, drugs and recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dreaming Lenormand I remember when I started learning reading Tarot cards over thirty years ago. I had a deck of Rider-Waite cards and I would lay out one of several spreads on a daily basis \u2013 usually a Celtic Cross \u2013 but sometimes a Horoscope Spread or a Tree of Life Spread or some other spread I had just read about in a book I had just gotten out from the library. My diary is filled with these readings \u2013 some are ridiculously lame \u2013 since I obviously had no idea what the cards truly \u201cmeant\u201d and I was simply quoting what the \u201clittle book\u201d said, trying to fit the \u201cmeaning\u201d of the card into the position it landed in the spread and what I wanted to know. This often required some agile mental gymnastics on my part and often, when I am reading these works of psychological analysis today, I don\u2019t know whether to laugh or to cry! But even though I was more confused than not, some of the readings are quite astute. Right from the beginning, I can see that I had a knack for reading the cards. I gave the cards nicknames and saw personalities in the cards \u2013 a lover of mine was the King of Cups and my best girlfriend was the Queen of Wands, for instance \u2013 the cards became profoundly close to my life quite quickly. I started dreaming \u201cin terms of the tarot\u201d after I had been reading the Tarot for about six months or so. It\u2019s hard to say how I knew I was dreaming about the tarot but I always knew that I was dreaming about this card or that \u2013 my diary is filled with descriptions of these dreams. Many of these dreams became poems. I can confidently say that this is where my current Tarot poetry project was generated. Anyone who follows my silverapplequeen or no commas blogs on WordPress knows these poems. I got my first Lenormand deck around a year ago and now own four Lenormand decks. Although the language of the Lenormand doesn\u2019t come as easily to me as the language of the Tarot, I am beginning to speak it with more fluency. I\u2019ll be honest \u2013 I don\u2019t practice with the cards as often as I should \u2013 certainly not as often as I did when I first started learning the Tarot. There are reasons for this \u2013 my life isn\u2019t as dramatic as it was thirty years ago \u2013 I am not trying to figure out the motives and movements of husbands and lovers \u2013 I am not constantly changing jobs or homes or trying to become pregnant. I am now retired and my son is a grown man. I don\u2019t have any lovers anymore nor do I desire any. Life is boring! And I like it that way! But I love the cards and I love collecting them. Lenormand, Tarot, playing cards \u2013 I am a card person. I love the feel of them in my hands. I have certain sets I actively look for. I think the Chelsea Lenormand is beautiful and if I ever see it, I am jumping on it like a duck on a June bug. I would also love to own the Blue Bird Lenormand. Right now, I am working with the Fairy Tale Lenormand and the Gaelic Lenormand. I also like the Lenormand Fortune Telling Cards, with the little verse instead of the playing card insert. But I love all of them. My main question with the Lenormand is this: why is there no cat? There\u2019s a dog and a fox \u2013 that\u2019s two canines. But no feline energy. That\u2019s a big omission IMHO. I had my first Lenormand dream a few weeks ago. I didn\u2019t know it was a Lenormand dream until I was awake and thinking about the dream. I was dreaming that I was in a giant mansion by the sea \u2013 if you have ever seen the HBO drama \u201cBoardwalk Empire\u201d, it was just like the Commodore\u2019s mansion \u2013 only darker and more gothic. There was a coffin in the entrance \u2013 a green coffin \u2013 I remember the color vividly. I walked around the coffin and then out to the beach. There was a maple tree on the beach. When I woke up, I thought I had just been dreaming about \u201cBoardwalk Empire\u201d \u2013 my son and I had been watching it for several days \u2013 I had even been dressed in 1920\u2019s formal wear in the dream. But after thinking about the dream more closely, I realized that it was a Lenormand dream. There were definite Lenormand images in the dream \u2013 the coffin, the house, the tree, and the woman. Although it can be argued that I didn\u2019t see the house \u2013 I was inside the house \u2013 it was still present in the dream. At the time I had this dream, I was suffering from a terrible eye infection. I looked like a deformed monster. I was in horrible pain and I was horrendously depressed. (The Fairy Tale Lenormand) The images of the dream \u2013 read in Lenormand cards \u2013 Lady, House, Coffin \u2013 say no more than \u201cThe Lady of the house is ill\u201d \u2013 which made me laugh. No shit, sherlock! The tree told me that healing would be coming \u2013 after all, in the dream, I am walking to the tree \u2013 three weeks after this dream, my eye is healing, although very slowly. (The Gaelic Lenormand) A few nights ago, I had a very restless night with dreams that were unclear but very emotional. I know I dreamed of a man I loved passionately but who is now dead and gone. I also dreamed of a close friend who betrayed me. Maybe they were the same person. It was the night of the last full moon but it was a stormy night and with the cloud cover, the moon was hidden. Even so, her power was felt. I woke up and thought about the dreams I had that night \u2013 even though I could barely see them \u2013 I could feel them. The Gaelic Lenormand seemed to be the best deck for the dreams I had that night. I used a \u201cLine of Five\u201d spread with the 29 Woman card to signify myself in the middle. The 10 Scythe card paired with the 28 Man card was the lover who was dead and gone. The 18 Dog card paired with the 6 Clouds card was the faithless friend. (Lenormand Fortune Telling Cards) Last night, I went to bed thinking about my novel. I have not written a word on this novel in two years but in the last few weeks, I have been thinking about starting work on it again. I woke up this morning knowing that I had been dreaming about writing the novel \u2013 that I had found the perfect form for the story \u2013 that I was writing easily and happily \u2013 that I had found the key. I woke up thinking those words exactly \u2013 the key. But I also felt really happy. So writing is 26 Book and finding the key is 33 Key and feeling happy is 24 The Heart and I\u2019m not even sure why I picked out 4 House except that to me \u2013 writing a book means a certain amount of success and that means obtaining the home of my dreams. It all ties together \u2013 with me, 29 Woman, in the middle of it all. Anyway \u2013 these dreams have pushed my Lenormand practice into another level \u2013 which is really a good thing, because I needed something \u2013 my own life was too boring! Now, every morning, I wake up and think \u2013 where was I last night? Where did my dreams take me? What did I do in them? Who did I meet? And how does that correspond to the Lenormand? Then I get the cards out and try to make a story out of the dream using the cards. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn\u2019t. But it\u2019s sure fun trying! Until next month, Brightest Blessings! Decks Featured Fairy Tale Lenormand on Amazon by Lisa Hunt. US Games Systems, Inc. 2016. The Gaelic Lenormand on Amazon by Diana Clark. http:\/\/amzn.to\/212x2ij The Lenormand Fortune-telling Cards on Amazon Sterling Ethos. 2006. All photographs by Polly MacDavid. *** About the Author: Polly MacDavid lives in Buffalo, New York at the moment but that could easily change, since she is a gypsy at heart. Like a gypsy, she is attracted to the divinatory arts, as well as camp fires and dancing barefoot. She has three cats who all help her with her magic. Her philosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly based in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan and she is solitary. She blogs at silverapplequeen.wordpress.com. She writes about general life, politics and poetry. She is writing a novel about sex, drugs and recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}