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Happy Holly Days!
Previous Blog/ Master List/ Next BlogFor this blog hop our wrangler, Arwen Lynch Poe, invited us to a Tarot Holiday Office Party. Like the office Secret Santa practice, she asked us to create a Winter...
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A Skeptic's Traditional Nine Square Reading
Corners - ThemeThis week's technique was the way I first learned to read a nine square. At the time, I was told this was the "traditional" (only) way to read it. I'm glad that my evergrowing...
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Expanding Your Readings Beyond the Nine Square
While the Nine Square may be both traditional and extremely versatile, it can be exciting to start spreading your net a little wider, without going all the way to a Grand Tableau. Most of the reading...
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An Alternate Reading
Last week, I did a reading using the 5 x 3 layout. This week, here it is again, but with a different layout for interpreting it. It was fascinating, as three alternate cards came up, and with really...
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Nine Square Spell For Focus
As I may have said before, the Nine Square, as well as a versatile reading tool, has become my favourite spread layout. In need of a bit of focus at the start of the year, I decided to create a spell...
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Grand Tableau Hits The Nail On The Head
As I haven't posted a Grand Tableau in a while, I thought the start of the year was a good time to throw one. That being said, I was asking specifically about the next month, and an upcoming exam and...
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My Cross To Bear
Just a quickie this week, as I have an essay to write. Gosh, you'd think I'd be past that at my age, but I can't seem to stay away from expanding my horizons :) So, I asked the cards for some advice...
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Brigid's Awakening
Brigid by Joanna Powell ColbertPrevious Blog/ Master List/ Next BlogA few days after Imbolc, or St. Brigid's Day, welcome to this seasonal Blog Hop. Our topic this time around, which bloggers around...
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Are Yes-No Readings Pointless?
Last year, I posted about a way of using Lenormand cards for a yes-no reading, based on the playing card associations. At the time, I was "lucky" enough to get consistent answers. Now, six months on,...
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A Celtic Cross Reading
Germany is the home of the Lenormand deck, the place where it was created by Johann Kaspar Hechtel, as well as being connected to the Austro-Hungarian court where it's precursor (the Coffee Grounds...
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Long Distance Love: A Grand Tableau
While it's a truism that love is the most asked about subject in readings, it's less common to have a man come requesting a love reading. It makes a nice change, and I was grateful to receive...
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Eye On The Prize!
Kelly from The Truth In Story is running an instagram/Youtube challenge this month called #lenormarch. I was rather tempted to join in, even though my Dear One is away this week, and we're off for a...
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Which Way To Turn?
Decisions come up in our lives all the time. From the biggies - marriage, kids, career change, relocation - to the everyday - what to wear, what to eat, what to write in your Facebook status :D The...
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Houses in a Line
This is a technique I demonstrated last year, but it's good to revisit such things, I think. The basic idea is to take a line (in this case of three), and read it using houses to add an extra layer....
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Money In The Cards
Previous Blog/ Master List/ Next BlogWhen Ania asked us to talk about finances in the cards, it got me thinking about our relationship with money. This isn't just random philosophising (or perhaps it...
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Did She Have An Affair?
Clearly, this isn't a question I would answer if a jealous partner came to my reading table. Ethically, that's not something I want to touch with a bargepole!However, in this case the question is one...
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Choices, Choices, Choices!
This week, I've been struggling with choices. What better time to use the Choices Spread I shared in the Celtic Lenormand companion book?!With three cartomantic projects I could work on this week in...
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Super New Moon in Aries Spell
Tomorrow, there is a Super New Moon (defined as when the moon comes closer than normal to the earth) in Aries. The new moon is a great time for making a fresh start, and Aries is a fiery sign full of...
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Transformation Time?
Having just opened up a free Learn Lenormand online resource, I have had many people tell me they feel nervous around larger Lenormand spreads, especially the Grand Tableau. While I plan to focus more...
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Hidden Motives and Messages
Following on from the Learn Lenormand training going up online, I've had some questions about knighting and other 'advanced' techniques. This week, I give thanks to a client for permission to...
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What Gifts May Flowers Bring
Previous Blog/ Master List/ Next Blog Karen Sealey is a playful person and for this hop asked us to think about May and let that take us where it may. I imagine we'll see a fascinating variety of...
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Reading the Future in a Grand Tableau
Some people suggest that everything in a Grand Tableau represents the current situation, and where things are moving to over the "reasonable" timeframe you set for such a reading (say 3-6 months)....
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A Lenormand Spell For Integration
Within the tarot, many writers see integration - the balancing of different aspects of self and/or the alchemical marriage - in pretty much every card of the Majors, if not the whole deck. But what of...
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What Does Success Look Like?
We all have different things going on in our lives, different notions of success. And yet, one of the beauties of spells is that they can speak to many different desires.Take the spell above. I...
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Here Comes The Sun!
Previous Blog/ Master List/ Next BlogWelcome to another Tarot Blog Hop! Our wrangler this time around, Morgan Drake Eckstein, set the topic on which all of us hoppers will write as follows: Junk Mail...
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