Taught by Mary K. Greer
Curious about what everyone finds so intriguing in the 36 card Lenormand deck? Join me in this five-week online course from 1 October to 5 November (no class on Oct. 22). On-line make-up sessions and getting the course in DVD form for later study are also available.
Right from the first week you’ll be working with the traditional Grand Tableau (“Big Picture”) that uses all the cards. You’ll explore the 36 cards via subject groups that help you understand the cards and fix their meanings in your mind. You’ll discover the secret of interpreting Lenormand through pairs and combinations, the kinds of questions that work best, and how to use the playing card inserts. Mary will help de-mystify the Tableau by discussing its basic components and breaking it down into easy-to-understand shorter layouts. Lenormand is an international language whose vocabulary is understood everywhere that the Petit Lenormand deck is found. We’ll be focusing on learning that standard language. Yet, your intuition will be given a huge boost as you start reading these cards immediately! Click here for more information. Join me for a fun-filled course.
Facebook Support Group (optional) will be available to the live class members for review of “homework.”. An optional certificate of “Competency in Lenormand Level One” is available by taking and passing a test at the end of the course.
Session 1:
- A brief overview of the origins and history of the Lenormand deck, including recent discoveries by Mary K. Greer
- Approaching the cards by subject groups—the first subject group
- The importance of interpretative nouns and adjectives and their use in card combinations
- An introduction to the Grand Tableau and establishing the theme of the reading
- Interpreting the four corners by working with pairs
- Starting your Lenormand Notebook
Mary K. Greer has made tarot her life work. Check here for reports of goings-on in the world of tarot and cartomancy, articles on the history and practice of tarot, and materials on other cartomancy decks. Sorry, I no longer write reviews. Contact me
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September 15, 2013 at 6:32 pm
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September 16, 2013 at 7:46 am
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September 17, 2013 at 1:23 pm
Robert Cohen
Hi Mary Good luck on all of this. Sound wonderful. I owe you an answer to your last email and I have a spread on Virginia Wolf to send you and some comments on what you wrote a while ago. Will get it out! I seem to have less time than when I was working full time! Not sure how that works; probably some kind of new math cheers will send you something soon bobby
September 17, 2013 at 2:11 pm
mkg
Bobby – I look forward to the Viriginia Wolf spread. I understand about the days getting shorter (and it has nothing to do with the change of seasons outdoors).
September 28, 2013 at 4:21 am
Minnah
Thanks for a great site about tarot.
Greetings from Sweden.
Minnah
January 16, 2014 at 12:14 pm
Mr. Lucky
Hi Mary:
I am interested in taking your Lenormand course, now offered as a download by Global Spiritual Studies. Would you say that your approach is more in line with the German School, or the French School?
March 10, 2014 at 5:46 pm
Kathy
I recently purchased a lenormand deck. All I have read on the subject says that the meanings of the cards is fixed. My concern is that I have strong associations of my own to those symbols. My inclination is to ignore the readings and set off in my own direction. What is your advice on this subject?
March 11, 2014 at 4:16 pm
mkg
Kathy,
Great question. It helps to understand that two things are involved with Lenormand:
1) the 36 cards that you can read or use any way you want, and
2) the Lenormand system, which is like learning a language with a specific vocabulary and grammatical structure.
A “traditional” Lenormand reader needs to become fluent in the language (while recognizing that regional ‘dialects’ have emerged in what is essentially a folk tradition). Once you have the basics down, your intuition can flow and, I find, be far more succinct, accurate and to-the-point in mundane situations than is found in most tarot readings.
Nineteenth century Tarot is much more like Lenormand than what’s experienced in the reading approaches we favor today. Lenormand can also be read more spiritually and psychologically, or simply as a free-flowing Oracle or as a focus for psychic insights, but at some point you may lose the unique characteristics and unified system that have been well-developed and kept alive for nearly 220 years, such that the Lenormand becomes just another random set of symbols.
Ask yourself: Why use this particular deck when other Oracle decks are specifically designed for use with your personal associations? If you are drawn to Lenormand, why are you uninterested in learning what the Lenormand system has to offer? What do you get from this deck that you don’t get from any other?
March 14, 2014 at 4:41 pm
Kathy
Thanks for the insight. I will keep at it. Tarot flows so easy for me I guess I am struggling with being new at something.
March 14, 2014 at 7:31 pm
mkg
When I started really focusing on learning Lenormand I used to get brain-aches from all the new neural connections being formed. Or at least that’s how I imagined it.
February 6, 2016 at 12:45 am
Philip
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December 9, 2020 at 4:10 am
Lucy Baker
Is this course available online to download – or on DVD as stated above?
Cheers
Lucy
December 9, 2020 at 1:45 pm
Mary K. Greer
Lucy,
The course is available as an online download through Global Spiritual Studies (click on the link in the post). It is not on DVD. Thanks for checking.
Mary