{"id":21347,"date":"2019-12-01T01:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T05:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/?p=21347"},"modified":"2019-12-07T21:39:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T01:39:58","slug":"learning-lenormand-reviews-titanias-fortune-cards-36-fortune-cards-and-how-to-interpret-them-by-titania-hardie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2019\/12\/01\/learning-lenormand-reviews-titanias-fortune-cards-36-fortune-cards-and-how-to-interpret-them-by-titania-hardie\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Lenormand Reviews &#8211; Titania\u2019s Fortune Cards: 36 Fortune Cards and How to Interpret Them by Titania Hardie"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>Learning Lenormand Review<\/b><b>s<\/b><b> <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>Titania\u2019s Fortune Cards<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>36 Fortune Cards and <\/b><b>H<\/b><b>ow to <\/b><b>I<\/b><b>nterpret <\/b><b>T<\/b><b>hem <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>by Titania Hardie<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21348\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-1.png 350w, https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-1-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When I first opened up Titania\u2019s Fortune Cards and got the cards out of their little cardboard container, my first thought was, \u201cHow minimalist.\u201d As I flipped through the cards one by one, I didn\u2019t even notice that they were Lenormand Cards until I got to the Clouds card and finally recognized the pattern of the pictures. There are no numbers on these cards and no words. And there are no playing card inserts. There are only pictures. Really bright, colorful, almost surreal pictures. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21349\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-2.png 762w, https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-2-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> At first, I thought that this would be a problem \u2013 no numbers to refer to, no handy names on the cards \u2013 but believe me, this proved to be the complete opposite. And now I am TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY IN LOVE with this deck of cards. They are so wonderfully simple. They\u2019re beautiful when laid out in a spread \u2013 for some reason, they make me think of holiday cookies all decorated and ready to eat. And they\u2019re very simply spot on! For my daily reading, they\u2019re always right there with what I need to know. Even if just a \u201cyou\u2019re on the right track, keep going!\u201d kind of message. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> Titania\u2019s Fortune Cards are published by Quadrille Publishing and its packaging is quite remarkable. Built like a little book, the cards are on one side and the booklet explaining how to use them are on the other. It\u2019s really brilliant. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21350\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-3.png 791w, https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-3-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-3-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> Titania Hardie is the author of dozens of books \u2013 she\u2019s probably best known for her Frangipani Fairies series written for children \u2013 but she\u2019s also written adult novels and books about witchcraft, numerology, the tarot, and other occult subjects. She doesn\u2019t seem to have her own webpage but she does have an author\u2019s page on Simon and Schuster\u2019s web page (www.simonandschuster.com), as well as author pages on Amazon.com and Thriftbooks.com. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> Having the booklet a part of the packaging makes it a bit hard for reading but not impossible. I think I might prefer if the booklet was removable, just like the cards are. But I was able to read it easily anyway. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21351\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-4.png 731w, https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-4-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Like most booklets of this sort, Hardie covers her own history with fortune telling and then presents a few spreads for us to practice with \u2013 amazingly, not a Grand Tableau, but then these are not traditional Lenormand cards, although they certainly can be used as such \u2013 and then the meaning of the cards and their combinations. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21352\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-5.png 773w, https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-5-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-5-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">One of the spreads she suggests using is called simply \u201cThe 9-Card Reading\u201d. This is similar to the \u201cTaking the Portrait\u201d spread in chapter 5 of Caitl\u00edn Matthew\u2019s masterwork, <u>The Complete Lenormand Oracle Handbook: Reading the Language and Symbols of the Cards<\/u>, although you read the cards somewhat differently. I have been working with this reading for the past several weeks. Here is a sample reading:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21353\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-6.png 661w, https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lenormand-6-289x300.png 289w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Don\u2019t these cards look beautiful laid out like this? Can you imagine a Grand Tableau with these cards? How stunning that would be? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> Hardie says to read the top row first, left to right, and then the next row down, and then the bottom row. Next you read the rows vertically, and then diagonally. Naturally this takes some time. I was focused on my writing that day I read these cards \u2013 I am generally focused on my writing nowadays \u2013 which is what I truly love to do and all I really want to do. The fox is the problem \u2013 that\u2019s my alter-ego who just wants to party. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> Quite honestly, I cannot recommend these lovely cards enough. Titania\u2019s Fortune Cards would make a lovely Yule gift or a New Year\u2019s gift for any divination enthusiast. Look for them on Amazon.com or at your favorite occult or local book store. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><em>Brightest Blessings!<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b><u>References<\/u><u>:<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Hardie, Titania. \u201cTitania\u2019s Fortune Cards\u201d. London: Quadrille Publishing, 2000. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Matthews, Caitl\u00edn. <u>The Complete Lenormand Oracle Handbook: Reading the Language and Symbols of the Cards<\/u>. Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books, 2014. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">www.simonandschuster.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>*all photographs by Polly MacDavid<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=paganpages-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1787132692&amp;asins=1787132692&amp;linkId=a28d508ae741eb0a9db6a720b7c13e1c&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>***<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>About the Author:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20982\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/polly-macdavid.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/polly-macdavid.png 419w, https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/polly-macdavid-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Polly MacDavid<\/b>\u00a0lives 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Her philosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly based in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan but she gets along with a few of the masculine deities. She loves to cook and she is a Bills fan. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">She blogs at\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0563c1;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/silverapplequeen.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">silverapplequeen.wordpress.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">. She writes about general life, politics and poetry. She is writing a novel about sex, drugs and recovery.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Lenormand Reviews Titania\u2019s Fortune Cards 36 Fortune Cards and How to Interpret Them by Titania Hardie &nbsp; &nbsp; When I first opened up Titania\u2019s Fortune Cards and got the cards out of their little cardboard container, my first thought was, \u201cHow minimalist.\u201d As I flipped through the cards one by one, I didn\u2019t even notice that they were Lenormand Cards until I got to the Clouds card and finally recognized the pattern of the pictures. There are no numbers on these cards and no words. And there are no playing card inserts. There are only pictures. Really bright, colorful, almost surreal pictures. At first, I thought that this would be a problem \u2013 no numbers to refer to, no handy names on the cards \u2013 but believe me, this proved to be the complete opposite. And now I am TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY IN LOVE with this deck of cards. They are so wonderfully simple. They\u2019re beautiful when laid out in a spread \u2013 for some reason, they make me think of holiday cookies all decorated and ready to eat. And they\u2019re very simply spot on! For my daily reading, they\u2019re always right there with what I need to know. Even if just a \u201cyou\u2019re on the right track, keep going!\u201d kind of message. Titania\u2019s Fortune Cards are published by Quadrille Publishing and its packaging is quite remarkable. Built like a little book, the cards are on one side and the booklet explaining how to use them are on the other. It\u2019s really brilliant. Titania Hardie is the author of dozens of books \u2013 she\u2019s probably best known for her Frangipani Fairies series written for children \u2013 but she\u2019s also written adult novels and books about witchcraft, numerology, the tarot, and other occult subjects. She doesn\u2019t seem to have her own webpage but she does have an author\u2019s page on Simon and Schuster\u2019s web page (www.simonandschuster.com), as well as author pages on Amazon.com and Thriftbooks.com. Having the booklet a part of the packaging makes it a bit hard for reading but not impossible. I think I might prefer if the booklet was removable, just like the cards are. But I was able to read it easily anyway. Like most booklets of this sort, Hardie covers her own history with fortune telling and then presents a few spreads for us to practice with \u2013 amazingly, not a Grand Tableau, but then these are not traditional Lenormand cards, although they certainly can be used as such \u2013 and then the meaning of the cards and their combinations. One of the spreads she suggests using is called simply \u201cThe 9-Card Reading\u201d. This is similar to the \u201cTaking the Portrait\u201d spread in chapter 5 of Caitl\u00edn Matthew\u2019s masterwork, The Complete Lenormand Oracle Handbook: Reading the Language and Symbols of the Cards, although you read the cards somewhat differently. I have been working with this reading for the past several weeks. Here is a sample reading: Don\u2019t these cards look beautiful laid out like this? Can you imagine a Grand Tableau with these cards? How stunning that would be? Hardie says to read the top row first, left to right, and then the next row down, and then the bottom row. Next you read the rows vertically, and then diagonally. Naturally this takes some time. I was focused on my writing that day I read these cards \u2013 I am generally focused on my writing nowadays \u2013 which is what I truly love to do and all I really want to do. The fox is the problem \u2013 that\u2019s my alter-ego who just wants to party. Quite honestly, I cannot recommend these lovely cards enough. Titania\u2019s Fortune Cards would make a lovely Yule gift or a New Year\u2019s gift for any divination enthusiast. Look for them on Amazon.com or at your favorite occult or local book store. Brightest Blessings! References: Hardie, Titania. \u201cTitania\u2019s Fortune Cards\u201d. London: Quadrille Publishing, 2000. Matthews, Caitl\u00edn. The Complete Lenormand Oracle Handbook: Reading the Language and Symbols of the Cards. Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books, 2014. www.simonandschuster.com *all photographs by Polly MacDavid *** About the Author: Polly MacDavid\u00a0lives 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 but she gets along with a few of the masculine deities. She loves to cook and she is a Bills fan. She blogs at\u00a0silverapplequeen.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":[10007,10005],"tags":[10670,10346,10205,10070,10671,10669,10032,10672,10665,10666,10069,10667,10673,10674,10668],"class_list":["post-21347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divination-articles","category-reviews","tag-10670","tag-author","tag-cards","tag-divination","tag-fortune","tag-fortune-cards","tag-how-to","tag-interpret","tag-learning","tag-lenormand","tag-oracle","tag-reviews","tag-them","tag-titania-hardie","tag-titanias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347","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=21347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21354,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347\/revisions\/21354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}