Learning Lenormand: Traditional Fortune Telling for Modern Life

318 Pages·2013·6.24 MB·English

by  Marcus Katz

Marcus Katz Marcus Katz is a professional tarot
teacher at the Far Away Centre, a contemporary
training centre in the Lake District of England.
As the Codirector of Tarot Professionals, the
world’s largest professional tarot organization,
he has studied and taught tarot for thirty years
and has delivered more than ten thousand face-
to-face readings. His first book, Tarosophy, has been
termed a “major contribution” to tarot by leading teachers.
Marcus is also the cocreator of Tarot-Town, the social
network for tarot, with more than ten thousand people
worldwide sharing innovative tarot development.
Tali Goodwin
Tali Goodwin is the Marketing Director and Cofounder of Tarot Professionals,
the largest professional tarot organization in the world. She has coauthored
innovative teaching books such as Tarot Flip, which is regularly in the top ten
best-selling tarot books on Kindle. Tali is a skilled researcher and is credited
with bringing the long-hidden Waite-Trinick Tarot to publication in Abiding in
the Sanctuary: The Waite-Trinick Tarot. She also coedited the leading tarot
magazine, Tarosophist International, in 2010–2011.
Llewellyn Publications
Woodbury, Minnesota
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the staff at the British Museum’s Prints and Drawings
department for again kindly extending their time to assist us during the research
for this book. The staff at the National Library of Scotland were excellent in
taking time to set up microfiche rolls for us. We would like to acknowledge the
Wellcome Trust collection and the Royal Society (London) for providing
invaluable research material on the development of early game and fortune
books, not all of which made it to this final publication but will be made
available in our Lenormand courses. We would particularly like to acknowledge
the Royal Society, which made such delicate works carefully available for our
viewing and study.
We would also like to acknowledge Steph Myriel Es-Tragon for further
research and translation work, and Andi Graf for providing another rare deck of
early fortune-telling cards. Stella Luna also assisted us in locating versions of
Partridge & Flamstead in the Australian National Library. The researchers at
trionfi.com assisted in the correspondence of coffee-grounds reading meanings
to the interpretations of the Lenormand, which we mention herein and cover
more in our online courses.
Ciro Marchetti generously offered his expert design skills in the production of
the Original Lenormand, which illustrate the card-by-card descriptions here and
are now available as a deck.
We have been delighted to have received contemporary Lenormand images
from Ciro Marchetti, Andi (Rootweaver) Graf, Robyn Tisch Hollister, Gidget
London, Anna Simonova, and Carrie Paris, which grace this book. The links to
their decks in development or for purchase can be located in the resources
section of this book.
And to the New Lenormandists and Cartomanciens, we remain your tres
obeisant et humble servants.
—Tali Goodwin and Marcus Katz
To Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand and Johann Kaspar Hechtel.
“It’s a bit green.”