Welcome to the world of Lenormand fortune telling! If you are not yet familiar with Lenormand cards, with the help of the information posted on the site, you will very quickly learn to understand their language and interpret the meaning. If this oracle is already familiar to you, then here you will find not only traditional, but also new layouts, as well as ways to interpret cards, the versatility of which will allow you to clarify the situation in any area of ​​life. Despite the apparent simplicity of the images on the cards, they contain a deep meaning that you can comprehend as you become more familiar with fortune telling.

The world of the Lenormand Oracle is filled with magic, and in order to learn to understand it, you have to overcome a long and adventurous path. Like the heroes of fairy tales and legends, each of us has to face various life situations that can cause fear, a sense of danger, doubt or confusion. Sometimes on our way we meet people, animals, various objects and places that protect us, protect us, shelter us and give us guidance. As soon as you find yourself in the mysterious world of Lenormand fortune telling, you will learn to control your own destiny. If you look closely at the cards, you will see that the images on them interact with each other, acquiring many additional meanings and providing a deeper vision of a given situation.

Origin of Lenormand cards

Fortune telling using the Lenormand system became widespread in Europe at the beginning of the 19th century and still remains popular in many countries around the world.

The fortune telling cards used in this oracle were named after the famous French fortune teller Mademoiselle Marie-Anne Lenormand (1772-1843), whose life was full of adventures. During the French Revolution, thanks to her extraordinary abilities in predicting fate, she won fame and respect from Parisian high society, in which she was called the Parisian Sibyl. She was always surrounded by rich and famous people, including the Empress Josephine, whom she advised before, during and after her marriage to Napoleon. However, the emperor was very outraged by the careless prediction of his divorce from Josephine. This divorce, according to Marie Lenormand, should have occurred due to the fact that Josephine was too old to bear Napoleon an heir. Without thinking twice, the emperor hastened to arrest Lenormand and imprisoned her so that the prophecy would not come true.

Despite the fact that the cards bear her name, Mademoiselle Lenormand is not their author. She used various methods of fortune telling for her predictions, including palmistry and Tarot. At first, like other fortune tellers of that time, she, like other fortune tellers of that time, used a picket deck consisting of 32 cards, which did not contain low cards with numbers from 2 to 6. Picket is a card game that has been very common in France and Italy since the 16th century . The popularizer of fortune telling on the picket deck was the influential French esotericist Jean-Baptiste Alietta.

The traditional Lenormand deck used today was created by Johann Caspar Hechtel and first published in 1800 for a family card game called The Game of Hope. Its essence was that the players took turns laying out 36 cards in the shape of a square on the playing field; the values ​​of two dice were used to move. The cards had numbering, images, and also included elements of a playing piquet deck, which included sixes. Thanks to this interweaving of images and elements of the picket deck, fortune tellers had an illustrated deck that combined the meanings of playing cards and symbolic images. It was this deck that began to be used for the most common type of fortune telling at that time - the Small Oracle of Lenormand.

The Lesser Oracle consists of 36 cards, each of which depicts only one symbol that has a specific meaning; but when interpreting it, the property of the corresponding playing card is also taken into account.

Lenormand fortune telling is a unique and accurate oracle, the simplicity of which allows it to be widely used to find answers to any questions. This fortune telling is very popular as a parlor entertainment, and is also used in the practice of gypsies and wandering people.

Oracle structure

The Lesser Oracle of Lenormand first attracted my attention several years ago, intrigued by the possibility of receiving more accurate predictions compared to Tarot cards. Based on my experience with many Lenormand decks, I can say that the more details depicted on the card, the more difficult it is to interpret. Simple and understandable symbols on fortune-telling cards more accurately convey the deep meaning and meaning inherent in them, which cannot be said about complex and intricate images.

It is not often that soothsayers make a reading for themselves, but at the same time this is an excellent opportunity to hone their skill in interpreting cards.

Teaching the basic principles of interpretation:

Description of layouts using examples:

Many predictors who prefer to work with Lenormand cards never cease to be amazed at how easy they are to understand. However, some beginners are concerned that they are not able to immediately tap into their intuition or inspiration, as they do when working with Tarot cards. Don't retreat! Once you remember the basic meaning of each card, you can quickly assess the situation and make connections between pairs and triplets of cards. In no time at all, you'll be able to instantly see the big picture, identify key messages, and interpret them with confidence.

The process can be compared to learning a foreign language: at first you will inevitably stumble when trying to say “hello” or “thank you”, but as your vocabulary increases, you will eventually begin to confidently formulate entire sentences. The more you practice, the faster you will master the language of Lenormand fortune telling and feel their charm.

You are holding in your hands a unique book that contains the most current methods of fortune telling with Madame Lenormand cards, as well as tells about their origin and describes the meaning of each card. With the help of fortune telling on Lenormand cards, you will be able not only to get independent advice about your own future, but also to find what is missing or find out how this or that person treats you. The book may be of interest to many people who want to look behind the veil of secrecy. For experienced practitioners it will be a good reminder, and for beginners it will be an excellent guide. The information offered here may turn out to be very relevant in light of the spread of other systems and traditions of fortune telling by cards, since the Lenormand system differs in many ways from the already familiar Tarot cards and other oracles. If you wish, it is not difficult to learn how to tell fortunes on cards on your own, because the information presented in this book is quite detailed: not only the cards themselves are described, but also different methods of fortune telling - from the simplest to the large gypsy layout. From the book you can also learn about how the tradition of fortune telling on these cards was born, and who exactly brought it to us in the form in which it currently exists. If you are just starting to guess, then when you pick up a deck of cards, trust your intuition, but remember that you are the masters of your own destiny!

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About Madame Lenormand's methods of fortune telling with cards

Before we begin to describe the various types of fortune telling using the Lenormand system, I would like to make a small digression.

The examples that will be given below intentionally begin with a description of simple methods of fortune telling, so that even an unprepared person can understand the system of fortune telling using a deck of cards developed by a famous soothsayer. And it's really not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.

Using simple layouts, over time you can get used to this unusual deck and remember the meaning of each card. The whole point is with what desire and interest one approaches fortune-telling, the process of which is somewhat similar to creativity and touches the very depths of the human “I”. Therefore, when picking up cards, you must not only want to know the future, but also try to release all the power of intuition and imagination, listening to your inner feelings. This approach will best help you understand what the cards want to say, especially since the images on the cards, as mentioned above, greatly contribute to this, that is, they are largely associative.

Next, fortune telling methods will be presented for every taste, giving you the opportunity to find out your future. For beginners, the simplest wish fortune telling is suitable, where just one card can tell you what to expect next and what to do to avoid danger or not be caught off guard by impending troubles. At the same time, when guessing for the future, a beginner can become familiar with the combinations of cards, as they are laid out in order one after another.

In addition, fortune telling will be described, which will certainly be of interest to people who want to find their other half or simply want to know what to expect from this or that person entering their life. Simple layouts for a new person or person will help them with this.

We will also talk about such a specific fortune-telling as a plan for finding a missing item. It in itself is very interesting and not as complicated as it might seem at first glance, and a detailed description and a diagram according to which you need to lay out the cards will help you understand it.

And then it will be possible to move on to more complex layouts, such as the small and large, or gypsy layout, which a beginner can begin when he has fully mastered the basics of fortune telling - the meaning and combinations of cards.

Simple fortune telling for the future

Take a full deck of thirty-six cards and shuffle thoroughly, concentrating on your own thoughts and desires. Then start opening one card at a time from above, saying to yourself: “Ace, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king.” Without stopping opening the cards, after the king, continue the list, starting again with the ace. Put those cards that match the names in order aside.

When the deck runs out, start revealing the cards from the beginning without shuffling them and continuing to say the names in the same order.

Having done this three times, put the rest of the deck aside and begin to interpret the meaning of the matching cards based on their combination with each other.

Fortune telling for a person

This is a fairly simple fortune telling that will help you characterize a person. Find a Gentleman in the deck if you are fortune telling for a man, or a Lady if you are fortune telling for a woman, and place the desired card in the center of the table.

Focus on the image of this person. Then carefully shuffle the remaining cards and randomly draw three cards from the deck, which you place around the key one. After this, you can open the cards and see their meaning.

Fortune telling for a wish or for the future

This is a rather interesting way of fortune telling. Take a deck of thirty-six cards and choose the card that corresponds to the current hour, i.e. the desired number. For example, the Messenger is the first card, and it corresponds to one in the morning, and the twenty-fourth card, the Heart, will complete the day.

The central card will be the one drawn first. Place the deck face down, remove twelve cards from above, and place the thirteenth under the central one - this card will be responsible for the past. After this, shuffle the cards, take out the thirteenth card again and place it to the left of the central one - it will show the events occurring in a person’s life in the present. After counting the next thirteenth card, place it on the right - it will also indicate the present. And finally, the last card drawn in this way must be placed on top of the central card - it will represent the future. When the cards run out during the countdown, you will have to take the ones that have already been worked out and, shuffling them, count out the thirteenth card from their number.

Fortune telling by wish

Shuffle the deck of thirty-six cards very carefully and, having made a wish and concentrating on it, draw one card at random, which will be the answer to the question you asked and will tell you whether the wish will come true.

Fortune telling for search

This layout is specifically used to help find something lost, be it a person or a thing.

In this layout, the designation of positions is based on the meaning of houses that are accepted in astrology.

As in all other cases, before starting fortune telling, you must carefully shuffle the cards.

But there is one nuance in the scenario for a lost item - before you start shuffling the deck, you need to find a card that will symbolize the loss. How to do it?

If we are talking about finding a person, you will need the following cards:

28. Gentleman;

13. Child.

Each of these cards will represent a man, woman or child respectively. But sometimes other maps are used to find people, for example:

7. Snake – if you need to find an intruder or an attacker;

14. Fox - find a deceiver, a trickster;

15. Bear - find a missing boss or patron;

18. Dog - find a missing friend.

These cards will more accurately characterize the person you are looking for.

In addition, we often cannot find any thing, the fate of which is very worrying.

Other cards can serve this purpose. Here, some people have difficulty choosing the right cards, so it is better to use your imagination and approach fortune telling creatively.

For those who still find it difficult, we can offer some ready-made notations.

1. Messenger - various means of communication (cell phone, fax and the like), as well as all kinds of storage media (flash card, disk, etc.).

3. Ship – any means of transportation (cars, etc.).

9. A bouquet of flowers is a universal card that can be used to indicate any lost thing that means a lot to a person or was given by someone.

11. Scythe - weapons and cutting or piercing instruments.

21. Mountain – precious or semi-precious stones.

25. Ring – any jewelry.

26. Book – a book itself or any other paper storage medium.

27. Letter – correspondence, letters, documents.

33. Key – actual keys or other small metal objects.

34. Pisces - values, mainly money (if in combination with this card you choose, for example, any card of flowers - Clover, Bouquet of Flowers or Lilies - then in this way you can designate any beautiful thing or piece of art).

31. Sun - gold jewelry.

32. Moon – silver jewelry, any silver items.

Once the desired card is selected, carefully shuffle the deck. Then the cards are laid out three for each of the twelve houses and opened until one of the houses contains the card you need.

Information about the loss will need to be interpreted based on the combination of this card with two neighboring ones.

Map layout for search

Meaning of Houses

The First House is the personal space of the one who has lost something.

Perhaps this is a home or premises where this person spends a lot of time and also stores personal belongings. What is lost is very close and will definitely be found soon. The time that will be spent searching for a thing is calculated in hours or even minutes, and the direction in which to search is east.

Second House - perhaps an item that cannot be found is not lost in the literal sense of the word, but lost among other personal items or may be in a box or safe where cash is usually kept. As a rule, this House directly points to places where money, jewelry cases or other valuables are kept. The search will also not take too much time; you should search in the direction of the northeast.

The Third House is most likely a place related to the possessions of familiar people, neighbors or relatives, but it can also be a place for activities. You should try to look for the lost item in places where books, letters, papers, and writing materials may be stored.

The item may be in the mailbox, if it is correspondence, or in your own car. It will be found within just a few days, the direction is northeast.

The Fourth House is guaranteed to indicate that what is lost is in your own home. This could be a room where your elderly relatives live, a kitchen, or a place where there is land - a garden or vegetable garden. In addition, there is a possibility that what was lost may be in the parental home or the home of close relatives. The item will be found within a few days, the direction is north.

Fifth House - the place of loss can be a children's room, a place for entertainment and relaxation, a bedroom, and in a broader sense - a theater, an exhibition, a gambling house, a disco and even a place for secret meetings of lovers. It is noteworthy that this item is not in plain sight and needs to be looked for more carefully than was done before. The search direction is north-northwest.

Sixth House - the place of loss could be a place of work or service, for example a government agency, hospital or clinic, and a room where meetings are held.

There is also a possibility that the item is in your own home, but in a place that serves as a personal office. It is also possible that this is a place where pets are kept. To find a lost item, you need to try hard and spend a lot of time searching for it. The direction in which to look for it is west of northwest.

Seventh House - what is lost is in the personal belongings of your spouse or partner, or perhaps a companion.

But more often than not, finding an item in this particular House makes it clear that it was most likely stolen and its return to the rightful owner is highly doubtful. The search direction is west.

The Eighth House is very unfavorable for loss. A person while searching for his thing may be in serious danger, or the thing itself may have already become unusable - disassembled or broken. The search direction is southwest.

Ninth House – the place where the item you are looking for is lost can be a temple, an institute or a church. It may also be located in the boss's office or in a building owned by a parent organization.

In any case, what you are looking for is very close. And, nevertheless, several months may be spent searching. The direction in which you should look for your loss is south-southwest.

Tenth House - the missing item is with your employers, at your workplace. However, this could be any place where you usually work or do business. The search in this case may last a few days, and the direction in which to search is south.

The Eleventh House represents the place where securities or financial documents are kept. True, there is a possibility that this place could be some kind of club or any other establishment where friends meet. It is possible that the lost item is in your own home and it makes sense to look for it in the living room. It can take weeks to find a lost item. The direction to look in is south-southeast.

Twelfth House - the missing item is located in a hard-to-reach, rather isolated place, perhaps where chemicals and various medications are stored.

This House can promise danger, as it represents secret enemies, hospitals and prisons. If the card you have chosen suddenly ends up in this house, then the chance of finding the loss is very small - it is well hidden. You should look for it east of southeast.

Card of the day

This is a fairly simple fortune telling that will help determine what to expect in the very near future - a kind of forecast for the day. Shuffle the cards thoroughly and place them all in a circle clockwise. Then focus on your desire to know what you can expect from the new day and open the card that you are drawn to.

By interpreting the meaning of the selected card, you can determine what awaits you that day.

Alignment for a new person entering life

Very often, when meeting or meeting someone, a person wonders what impression he made, what to expect from a new relationship, what other people think about it, what can happen in terms of feelings, friendship or partnership.

Lenormand cards will help answer these questions. To do this, you need to relax, clearly formulate your question and shuffle the cards.

The first card removed will answer the question: “What does this person think of me?”, the second - to the question: “How does this person (name) really feel about me?”, the third - to the question: “Will something happen between us?".

It is the third card that will help get rid of ambiguity in relationships and clearly determine what direction a new acquaintance will take.

A simple situation plan

This layout is really very simple. In order to start fortune telling, you need to take a form - the questioner's card - which will mean you or the person for whom you are telling fortunes, and then, focusing on the problem, select four cards from the deck in random order and arrange them around the form.

The first, topmost card will tell you what preceded the current situation.

The second card, lying to the left of the form, will show what opportunities a person has in a given situation. This may be an indication of some obstacles or outside help.

The third card, lying on the right, will reflect the desires and plans of the fortuneteller. She can also suggest an answer to a question tormenting a person.

And finally, the fourth card shows the future and the result that should be expected after the situation as a whole is resolved.

Complex layouts

Large, or gypsy, layout on the minor lasso Lenormand

This layout is more complex, has separate interpretations and includes two methods.

Usually, the so-called large layout of eight cards is used first, when they are laid out in four rows of eight cards each, and four more cards below. After this, if necessary, a second option for laying out the cards follows - in four rows of nine in each.

It would probably be correct to remind you that you should not lay out the cards in two ways just out of curiosity. This is done only if the first layout does not give accurate answers and leaves many doubts.

Big deal

Usually the gypsy layout gives a lot of information, and from this it follows that it is quite enough to lay out the cards in one of two ways and just carefully interpret their combinations. Before you start fortune telling and lay out the cards, you must make a guess for the specific time period of interest. And only after this can you begin to carefully shuffle the cards, remove them and lay them out according to one of the above-mentioned schemes.

How to lay out the cards - opening them immediately or first face up, and only then opening them - is not of fundamental importance, it is a matter of personal preference and habit.

In the Gypsy reading, less attention is paid to how the cards are combined. Here it is much more important to consider in which House the card is located. Thus, the interpretation of fortune telling depends not only on which House the other card is combined with, but also on the direction in which it is located. You need to count in order, starting from the very first, top left card and moving to the right.

House Meanings

House 1 – Messenger: House of good news, as well as all kinds of contacts and communication.

House 2 – Clover: modest happiness, little joy, transience of happiness, and also little money.

House 3 – Ship: travel, travel, all kinds of changes, an irresistible desire to visit foreign countries and travel long distances.

House 4 – House: family, constancy.

House 5 – Tree: health, age, duration of something.

House 6 – Clouds: negative emotions, doubts, fear, unreliability, uncertainty, worries.

House 7 – Snake: wise woman, betrayal, deception, insincerity, detours and complications.

House 8 – Coffin: completion, sadness, depression, problems, the end or the beginning of something new.

House 9 – Bouquet of flowers: gifts and invitations, flirting, wonderful person, creative hobbies.

House 10 – Spit: separation, separation, danger, suddenness of events.

House 11 – Broom: vanity, disputes and disagreements, gossip.

House 12 - Owls: nervous tension, talking on the phone or receiving messages, anxiety.

House 13 – Child: new beginning, purity and naivety.

House 14 – Fox: cunning, lies and deceit, concealment and mystery.

House 15 – Bear: in most cases it means a man, trust and support on his part, but sometimes jealousy.

House 16 – Stars: This is a unique House that deals most with issues of a magical nature, but can also indicate success and clarity in business.

House 17 – Storks: changes and changes, travel, nepotism.

House 18 – Dog: House of true friendship.

House 19 – Tower: loneliness, separation, separation, isolation.

House 20 – Garden: meetings, public and communication.

House 21 – Mountain: complexity, emerging obstacles and loads.

House 22 – Fork: options, spraying.

House 23 – Rats: unpleasant situations, theft, losses, and fear.

House 24 – Heart: emotions, love and friendship.

House 25 – Ring: relationship, connection, partnership agreement or marriage.

House 26 – Book: learning, mystery, knowledge.

House 27 – Letter: information in any form and format.

House 28 – Gentleman: card of a fortune-telling man.

House 29 – Lady: card of a fortune-telling woman.

House 30 – Lilies: chastity, spirituality, harmony.

House 31 – Sun: great happiness and a lot of energy.

House 32 – Moon: creativity, affection, feelings, past, emotions.

House 33 – Key: The house in which problems are resolved.

House 34 – Pisces: financial sphere.

House 35 – Anchor: work or professional sphere.

House 36 – Cross: karma, religiosity, faith and hope for the future.

The following figure shows the first and last cards (solid line), as well as the cards that will be located in the corners (dashed line).

1. As is already clear from the above, the very first card will be the one that lies in the Messenger’s House. This combination - House + card - affects the entire layout as a whole.

2. Then, counting cards from left to right in each row, you should look at the cards that are on the corners of the layout - these are 1, 8, 25 and 32. In this case, card 1 will be located in the upper left corner, card 8 in the upper right, card 25 is in the lower left corner, and card 32 is in the lower right. These cards will indicate to the fortuneteller the present time and current life situation.

3. In the very center will be what is in a person’s thoughts and heart and what worries him at the moment.

4. Now look at the top row. The first four cards will show the future, which must be fulfilled within about half a month, and the remaining four following them will show the future more distant.

5. The lowest four cards, which come last, represent future global events that, most likely, will not be prevented or changed in any way. These last cards are called Fate cards.

6. Having decided where the present and the future are, you need to find a “blank” card that will correspond to the person being told the fortune: for a man it is a Gentleman, and for a woman it is a Lady. Find in which house the form is located, and also note what place it occupies in the layout. If it is shifted to the left, it means that a person is waiting for renewal, important changes are coming in his life. This person plans his own future. In the case when the card is on the right side, the person lives with his past, which he does not want to let go of, and does not plan the future at all.

When the card is at the top, then emotions play an important role in a person’s life. Moreover, they guide him and influence absolutely everything he does.

The placement of the form below, on the contrary, will tell you about a person who is guided by logic and makes reasonable, well-informed decisions. But sometimes this can mean that a person is thinking too much, which causes unnecessary doubt and procrastination.

7. The next step will be to look at your personal and financial areas. Look for this information in the relevant Houses.

8. To see how this or that situation will change, you should make a “knight’s move” from the desired card, that is, mentally draw the letter “G” and read the combination of cards. They will tell you exactly in what manner events will develop.

10. To see who a person works, you need to look at what cards will surround the Tower.

11. The fortuneteller’s father will be described by those cards that are located between the Tower and the Bear, and between the Tower and the Snake you can read about the character of the mother.

12. The cards located at the feet of the form speak about upcoming events and what a person will do in the near future. The map above his head reflects his thoughts.

13. From the cards that are between the Gentleman and the Lady, you can read about the relationships of the partners, or rather, what is happening to them at the moment. It is very important whether the partners’ cards are currently facing each other or not and how close they are in the layout. All this helps to obtain additional information about their relationship.

If the results of fortune telling are not satisfactory, you can arrange the cards nine in four rows.

In other words, the card that was in ninth place needs to be moved up to the place after eighth. The cards of the second row will move only one, i.e. where the ninth card was, the tenth will appear. The same thing, without disturbing the order, will need to be done with the second, third and fourth row. You just need to remember that if a new layout is made, the Houses will no longer have an influence, only the place of the cards relative to each other is considered.

Small layout

Madame Lenormand's original deck of cards is intended for this fortune telling, which contains more cards than a regular deck, and each of them has its own meaning. But besides this, what the meaning of the card will be also depends on the place where it is located. This layout is ideal for you if you need to study a topic in more detail.

Before starting fortune telling, be sure to focus on the situation and the image of the person if you are telling fortunes to someone else. Then, first of all, you need to choose a form, that is, a card that will represent either you or the person for whom you are telling fortunes.

For a woman it will be a Lady card, for a man it will be a Gentleman card. Next, randomly choosing cards from the deck, you need to lay them out in such a way that you get the positions as shown in the figure below.

There should be three positions - past, present and future.

Past – 9, 1, 16, 8, 7 and 15 cards. These cards will tell you about what preceded the situation in which the person found himself.

9th card - represents external non-physical intervention - advice or idea.

1 card – personal ideas and hopes of the fortuneteller in the past.

Small layout

Cards 8 and 16 are the personification of the physical plane, the events that preceded the current situation and influenced it. In this case, the 8th card is considered stronger, because it is closest to the form.

The 7th card is the personification of past experiences, emotions and feelings.

The 15th card is a subconscious plan, actions that were interpreted by the inner “I”.

Present – ​​10, 2, 6 and 14 cards. They talk about how a person feels at a given time.

10 and 2 cards are a person’s feelings and thoughts, while the 2nd card has a greater influence than the 10th card.

Cards 6 and 14 tell about what is happening in the soul and reflect a person’s feelings towards the current situation.

Future – 11, 3, 4, 12, 5, 13 cards that will lift the curtain of the future.

The 4th and 12th cards will tell about the main upcoming events of the physical plane, with the 4th card indicating the most immediate events, and the 14th card – more distant ones.

Card 3 – a person’s personal assessment of the general situation.

Card 11 – public judgment about the situation.

5 and 13 cards - emotions and feelings in the future, while the 5th card will reflect stronger feelings and emotions than the 13th card.

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The given introductory fragment of the book Fortune telling using cards by Maria Lenormand (Jan Dikmar, 2014) provided by our book partner -

Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand (Le Normand or Lenormand) was born on May 27, 1772 in Alençon, a small town fifty leagues from Paris. Her father was a wealthy textile merchant. Even in the boarding school of the Benedictine monastery, where her father sent her, she became famous for her successful predictions: for example, the boss, whom little Maria predicted that she would not have long to stay in the monastery, was indeed soon transferred to another place.

With the death of their father, the family's wealth ended, and the Lenormands moved to Paris. There she first worked as a saleswoman, but soon her unusual talent in fortune-telling manifested itself and in 1790, together with a friend, she opened her own “salon” on the Rue de Tournon, in which she predicted the fate of willing ladies and gentlemen using cards, astrology and other methods.

Very soon, Mademoiselle Lenormand's salon gained enormous popularity. All the “light” of the then revolutionary Paris was in it. In 1793, the salon was visited by Marat, Saint-Just and Robespierre. She predicted violent death for all three. And so it happened: Jean-Paul Marat was mortally wounded by Charlotte Corday a few months later, and the other two were arrested and executed a year later.

But the greatest fame, of course, was brought to Marie Lenormand by her friendship with Josephine Beauharnais, the wife of the young General Bonaparte. At the first meeting, the fortune teller predicted a crown for her. Neither Josephine nor Napoleon himself believed the fortune teller at the time, but less than ten years had passed before the fortune-telling came true. Having come to power, Napoleon did not forget the lucky soothsayer: he presented her with a million francs, and she became the personal fortune teller of Empress Josephine. And she predicted not only a divorce from Napoleon, but even the defeat of the French army in Russia.

The cards that Maria Lenormand used for fortune telling were the most ordinary. Only she had her own interpretation, largely based on the rules of fortune telling introduced by Eteilla. After her death (1843), no special cards, much less notes about fortune-telling, survived, although Lenormand wrote a lot.

The most successful reconstruction of Maria Lenormand's system was undertaken by the Flemish fortune teller Erna Drusbeke. Erna Drusbeke van Enge was born in 1952 in Antwerp, into a Belgian-Dutch family. She is an artist, and has drawn various maps herself since childhood. She owns a divination system (and deck) called the Isis Tarot. Having become interested in the history of Maria Lenormand, Erna Drusbeke, who herself has quite good occult abilities, tried to restore her divination system from the memoirs of her contemporaries.

When fortune telling, Erna Drusbeke does not take into account the upright and inverted positions of the cards. To facilitate the work of intuition, Erna Drusbeke provided 36 cards of an ordinary French deck with symbolic drawings, the interpretation of which is not difficult: it is clear that the sun means joy, warmth and light, the ring means marriage, and the cross means suffering.

To interpret any card, it is also important which cards surround it. Thus, the relatively neutral card “Clover”, meaning expectation or hope, in combination with “Clouds”, “Mountain” and “Snake” foreshadows trouble, and with “Garden”, “Pisces” or “Bouquet” - success and good luck.

To get acquainted with the fortune-telling system of Maria Lenormand, we offer you several options for online fortune-telling, developed for these cards.

They can be different, depending on the task and the result that we want to get after fortune telling. Most of the layouts for the small deck are taken from the book by A. Kotelnikova “Lessons in Prediction with Maria Lenormand”.

(4 cards). To study a specific issue, we recommend the “Numerological” layout or, as it is also called, “Development and Advice”. When fortune telling, the serial number of the Lenormand card and the position of the card are actively used; combinations of cards are not taken into account in the layout. Only the value of the Lenormand card is taken into account. All 36 cards are used for the layout, but only 4 cards need to be revealed to determine the development of the issue.

To tell fortunes about a situation and get a general idea of ​​a specific situation, you can use a simple “Situation” layout.

The layout of the Lenormand cards will tell you quite accurately about the prospects for the development of the situation without any special details. For fortune telling, the fortuneteller's personal card is used - the “blank” card. This layout has a very wide range of applications. It is indispensable in cases where you need to quickly and accurately get an idea of ​​​​a matter and find out the possible result.

(9 cards). For more detailed fortune telling and consideration of the situation that worries you, it is better to use the “9 cards” layout. Unlike the 4-card “Situation” layout, in this layout of the Lenormand cards, knowing their meaning, you can study a specific issue or serious problem in more detail. For fortune telling, the fortuneteller's personal card is used - the “blank” card.

(5 cards). To obtain information about the state of affairs in the professional life of the fortuneteller and advice on what can be done to improve the situation, a simple fortune-telling “Five Elements” using card numbers is used. The layout advice is based on adding the numbers of the first four Lenormand cards. Combinations of cards are not taken into account; only the position of the card and its meaning play a role. For fortune telling, the fortuneteller’s personal card is also used - the “blank” card.

. To describe relationships and existing feelings, determine what awaits the couple and what they can achieve together, they use the “Two” layout. “Significator” cards are laid out on the table, indicating the pair of interest. As a result of the layout, a characteristic of the relationship is obtained for each of the partners and for the couple as a whole, using the numerological meaning of the Lenormand cards.

(16 cards). For a more detailed study of relationships and obtaining final conclusions, the “Short” layout is used, it is also called the “Small” layout. The “short” layout is considered complex and requires some experience with Lenormand cards. It takes into account the independent meaning of each card, the position occupied, paired combinations of cards and the position relative to the “blank” card. For fortune telling, the fortuneteller’s personal card is also used - the “blank” card.

(21 cards). For a fairly detailed forecast for a short period of time, the “7 houses” layout is used. This layout is also considered quite complex. In addition to the independent meanings of each Lenormand card, fortune telling takes into account the position occupied and paired combinations of cards. This layout predicts events that usually occur within the next month. For fortune telling, the fortuneteller’s personal card is also used - the “blank” card.

(36 cards). To search for lost objects and missing people and determine the possible location of the loss and the direction of the search, use the “Search” layout. The meaning of positions is related to the accepted meanings of houses in astrology. In fortune telling, the Lenormand card, which is responsible for the loss, is determined, and by its position in the layout, the possible location of the loss is determined.

Layout "4 rows" (36 cards). For fortune telling for a certain period, the “4 rows” layout is used. Before laying out the cards, at the request of the questioner, determine the time for which the Lenormand cards are laid out; this can be a day, month, year or the rest of your life. The card of the questioner is found - the “significator”, in relation to which the entire layout is interpreted. See "The Big Deal".

(36 cards). To make a detailed forecast for a planned period of time, use the “Big Alignment” layout. The “Big Layout” is one of the most complex layouts; in this Lenormand fortune telling, experienced fortune tellers take into account the independent meanings of each Lenormand card, the positions of the cards, paired combinations of cards, the location of the cards relative to the “blank” card, and complex relationships with other cards. The position of the questioner’s card itself is also taken into account; it does not always end up in the center of the layout. The houses, mirrors and correspondence in which the interpreted cards are located are also taken into account. Consider the connection between significators, their position relative to each other.

To clarify some unclear points, immediately after the “Big Layout” they make a “4 rows” layout, in which 4 rows of 9 cards are laid out. They interpret incomprehensible cards in the “Big Layout” through the “4 rows” layout, clarifying the fortune-telling according to the same rules as in the “Big Layout”, considering the necessary card in a new position for it using houses, mirrors, correspondence and other relationships. The “4 rows” layout can be done as an independent layout and according to the same rules as the “Big layout”.

The layout (1 card) is an instant layout of one card by Maria Lenormand, it takes a minimum of time and allows you to quickly tell fortunes for the near future and foresee the events of the coming day.

(1 card) will tell you a lot about the person you are interested in, will reveal the most secret corners of his soul and prepare you to meet any person fully armed. The numerology of the date of birth and the serial number of the Lenormand card are actively used here.

(36 cards). To find out about upcoming important events in a certain period of time, use the “Gypsy layout”. Before shuffling the cards, as in the previous layout, you need to set the period of time that you will study. The “Gypsy layout” also takes into account not only the independent meanings of each Lenormand card, but also the location of the card relative to the questioner’s card and the relationship with other cards. The decisive point of interpretation is the questioner's card. Gypsies call this form of interpretation "drawing a cross into the past, present and future." Knowing the meaning of each card position, it is easy to understand the meaning of the Lenormand cards in the Lenormand fortune-telling layout.

Layouts for fortune telling on the astro-mythological Lenormand deck are considered separately on the “” page and are used if it is necessary to obtain a detailed study of any issue and choose the right strategy for further behavior.

Popular fortune telling

Love fortune telling on gypsy Tarot cards “Feelings of a loved one” is a simple way to find out how your partner treats you, what he expects from your relationship and what threat exists to your love. Only three gypsy cards give the exact answer, but sometimes the decoding is veiled and in order to understand the prediction it is necessary for some time to pass and facts unknown to you to be revealed. Think about your question and choose three cards from the deck.

One of the oldest games, Dominoes, is closely related to fortune telling, which was performed on dice with dotted numbers. Fortune telling on one domino bone helps predict fate, find out hidden and important events that are already happening or are about to happen, and most importantly, answer the question “What awaits me?” To get your prediction, choose one of 28 dominoes.

Fortune telling on two Gypsy dice allows you to get an answer to one of ten questions regarding love, relationships and personal life. This is one of the oldest ways to find out the future of your relationship with your loved one. Before starting fortune telling, select the question you are interested in from the list, throw the fortune telling dice and immediately receive a decryption.

Fortune telling, which was a favorite of Empress Catherine II, according to legend, was quite simple. 40 cards depicted 40 symbols that had a classic decoding, but for a specific situation they could have a direct meaning and mean exactly what is depicted on them. Out of 40 cards turned upside down, three were selected and, depending on the question of interest, the result was interpreted. Try this fortune telling to predict your fate or clarify a question that interests you.

Fortune telling on the runes of Odin “One rune” is the simplest and at the same time accurate layout of the runes. You can ask a question and get an instant answer by pulling out just one rune. If the question implies an unambiguous answer, then the upright position of the rune means “Yes”, the inverted position of the rune means “No”, the empty Odin rune means an indefinite answer..

Fortune telling with fortune cookies is a quick and easy way to find out what awaits you in the future and learn useful advice or warnings from higher powers. Our online fortune telling contains advice, predictions and warnings on various topics. Do you want to know what awaits you? Just click on the cookie to break it and get a fortune sheet.

Fortune telling on Lenormand cards

Fortune telling using the Lenormand Oracle is one of the most common, since the symbolism depicted on the cards themselves is intuitively clear to everyone, even without decoding. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the most popular and used Lenormand card layouts using our online fortune telling. Select the fortune telling that suits you from the list below:

The Lenormand “Get to Know Your Partner” card layout gives insight into relationships in the present, past and future. How does your partner feel about your relationship, what nuances should you pay attention to, what pitfalls are hidden and what surprises of fate should you expect in your relationship with your lover. Think about your partner, ask your question regarding the relationship and choose 8 cards from the deck.

Layout of Lenormand cards “Separation” Suitable for those who are at odds with their partner or are on the verge of such a break. This fortune telling will help you find out what your partner’s attitude is towards breaking up, how your life will change if you decide to break up or maintain the relationship, and most importantly, whether your relationship has a chance. Concentrate and imagine the situation, ask a question to the cards, select 6 cards from the deck.

The Lenormand “Life Partner” card layout will help you better get to know the person with whom you are going to connect your life. This fortune telling will show in what ways you are close to your partner and in what ways you are different, what your partner is hiding from you, what qualities he values ​​and complements, as well as what the fate of your relationship is. To begin, choose who you will guess, ask a question and then select cards from the deck.

The Lenormand “New Man” card layout is necessary in cases where a spark of sympathy runs between a man and a woman and the woman is wondering whether this man liked her, what he thinks about her and whether a love relationship is possible between them in the future. Before starting fortune telling, think about the situation and your partner, then select 4 cards from the deck.

The Lenormand “Dove” card layout is aimed at single women and girls waiting for love. With the help of this fortune-telling, you can find out what men like about you and what they don’t, what factors influence your personal life and whether you will have a relationship within the planned time frame (you need to make additional guesses.) Concentrate, ask your question and select four cards from the deck .

The Lenormand card layout “Love, Desire, Passion” is used to learn about the thoughts, desires and feelings of partners regarding each other. Fortune telling shows your attitude towards your partner, him towards you, as well as your general aspirations and desires. Before starting fortune telling, ask your question with concentration and select nine cards from the deck.

The layout of Lenormand cards “Harmony of Love” will help you find out what you like and what you don’t like in your love relationships, how your partner sees your relationship in the future and what needs to be changed in yourself to create strong and harmonious relationships. Also, with the help of this fortune telling, you will find out what approach is necessary to your partner and what advice the cards give for your relationship. Concentrate and imagine the situation, ask a question to the cards, select 6 cards from the deck.

The Lenormand “Your Light” card layout is intended to be brief. but from that no less informative forecast of the near and distant future. With the help of this online fortune telling, you can find out what awaits you, how events will develop, what surprise awaits you, and where everything will lead. The cards also give advice on how to behave in order to achieve a goal or avoid trouble. Before starting fortune telling, think about the person you will be telling fortunes about and select cards from the deck.

The Lenormand card layout “Return the relationship” is used in the case when love partners are in a quarrel, or have decided to separate or divorce forever. This fortune telling will show you whether reconciliation and renewal of relations is possible, and what needs to be done for that. to return love, whether your partner will want to renew the relationship with you and how this situation will end for you and your partner. Before starting fortune-telling, concentrate, make a question and make a wish for your partner. Then select seven cards from the deck.

The Lenormand “Scales of Justice” card layout is used when you have any dispute between another person. With the help of this fortune telling, you can even find out how the court case (if there is one) will end or a conflict based on a dispute or discussion. The layout gives advice on how to behave if the situation is resolved in your favor or in favor of your opponent. Before starting fortune telling, ask your question with concentration and select nine cards from the deck.

Lenormand card layout “What happens if?” helps determine actions when a difficult or conflict situation arises. Maps show how the situation will develop in the chosen and alternative directions. This fortune telling only shows possible developments based on one or another action; remember that the decision is still yours. Focus and ask your question to the cards, then select cards from the deck.

The Lenormand “Loyalty” card layout is necessary to determine whether your partner is cheating on you. In addition to this exciting question, the cards will also tell you about the nature of your relationship with your partner, what conscious and subconscious thoughts you and your partner have towards each other, as well as many other nuances of a love relationship. Focus and ask your question to the cards.

The layout of the Lenormand cards “Cause of Failure” is used to analyze an unpleasant situation, and also helps to understand what led to such events in life - is there a karmic background to what happened, is there a chance of accident, or is your wrong actions or thoughts to blame in the chain of failures. Focus and ask your question to the cards.

Lenormand “Chains of Fortune” card layout is a universal fortune telling for any life situation in the aspect of the future. The layout, consisting of 4 cards, is very simple, but at the same time very informative and gives a forecast for the near and distant future, how this situation will end. Before starting fortune telling, concentrate and ask your question, then select cards from the deck.

The layout of the Lenormand "Volnitsa" cards, carried out on three cards, is a fairly simple way to predict the development of the situation. With the help of this online fortune telling, you can find out what is destined for you, how everything can change (go differently from what you expect) and what the outcome of the planned situation will be. Concentrate and ask your question after the cards fall out - carefully read the transcript.

The layout of the Lenormand “Love” cards is a simple way of predicting the characteristics of the relationship between two people, what each of them brings to the relationship, what are the similarities and differences between people in the union, what are the main aspects of a love relationship. Before starting fortune telling, think about your partner and ask a question to the cards.

Online fortune telling “Lenormand Advice” is a one-card layout of Lenormand cards, each card of which gives specific advice for you. This fortune telling can be used as a daily fortune telling for planning the day or as an assistant in a difficult situation. Questions suitable for this fortune-telling are “What should I do?” and “What is this situation teaching me?” Focus and choose a card from the deck and read the advice it gives.

An interesting numerological layout of Lenormand cards “Personality Card” allows you to determine his card in the deck by a person’s date of birth. In order to find out which card is predetermined for a certain person, you need to add up all the numbers of his date of birth. If the sum is greater than 36 (the last card number in the deck), then it is also necessary to add the digits of the resulting result. With the help of our online fortune telling, it has become even easier to find out the mysterious card, just select the date of birth of the person you are interested in in the drop-down list.

The Lenormand “Cross” card layout is one of the simplest for predicting the future. This fortune telling will show you how the planned situation will end for you, what opportunities exist for achieving a goal or solving a problem, and whether your plans will come true in the future. Focus and ask your question, select five cards from the deck.

The layout of the Lenormand cards “Five Elements” gives a general idea of ​​​​the various spheres of the fortuneteller’s life, and the result of fortune telling is the numerological sum of the cards (it can repeat the card that fell in the layout). Fortune telling allows you to understand yourself and make the right decision based on your capabilities. The last card “Spirit” in this fortune-telling implies karma, the destiny of the fortuneteller from above, something that does not depend on him. Before you start fortune telling, think about your question and select cards from the deck.

Based on the Lenormand Card of the Day layout, an interesting online fortune-telling has been implemented, with the help of which you can get a forecast for the events that will happen on the predicted day, as well as advice on how to behave on this day and what lessons should be learned. Make a guess on the day you want to tell fortunes for and choose a card from the deck.

Lenormand card layout “Do I like it or not?” used in cases where the fortuneteller would like to clarify the real relationship with his partner. The cards show how your partner treats you, what he thinks about you, what he plans to do and how you should behave; the cards also give a forecast for the development of your relationship in the near future. Before fortune telling, ask your question to the cards and imagine your partner.

The layout of Lenormand cards “Two” is one of the most popular when divining love and relationships between a woman and a man. This fortune telling shows the conscious and unconscious relationship between two close people, what thoughts and feelings they have for each other, what actions they take and what their relationship will be in the future.

The layout of the Lenormand cards “For the situation” gives accurate, without any unnecessary details, information about the reasons for the current situation, what the potential of your capabilities is and what the outcome of the whole matter will be. This fortune telling is a simplified version of the “Nine Lenormand Cards” spread, but no less practical and popular in the use of fortune tellers.