This month’s Tarot Tutorial focuses on the method for reading Lenormand cards, and applying the Lenormand method to Tarot cards! Each month
'I have this feeling that Tarot cards were originally read much more like the linguistic method used for Lenormand cards. The Rider-Waite-Smith illustrated Minor Arcana cards and the Golden Dawn’s focus on visual–mythological interpretations of the Tarot images seems to have led to a more psychological and spiritual journey set of interpretations over the past century or so.
'The Tarot’s Original Pip Cards
'The Major Arcana have always stood out on their own as individual spiritual messengers, but the Minors were originally just symbols and numbers (they came from playing cards) with traditional meanings unrelated to any “picture” or “story,” like they still are in the Tarot de Marseille decks, which Jean Noblet developed in 1650. [...]'
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