HOW TO USE GILDED REVERIE LENORMAND FOR
YOUR CALENDAR SPREAD
I recently watched Malkiel and
Donnaleigh's videos on the Lenormand Calendar spread. I thought it
was such a fantastic exorcize that I just had to try it myself. (I
will post linky dinks down below) Calendar spreads are a wonderful
way to get a snapshot of your day/week/month/year. It's also great
way to get familiar with a new deck or oracle. As you watch the days
unfold you can capture new meanings for your oracle.
What you will be doing is laying out a
card for each day of the month as a monthly spread. You will need a
calendar of some sort. If you don't have a calendar that you can
write on it's easy enough to print one from the internet or just
create your own. You will need this to record the cards you have
pulled for each day.
I'll be using two methods for recording
my Lenormand month. I'll be writing out the numbers in my journal
and my art board. I use my art board for laying out spreads that I
want to keep out for a little while. A large sheet of sketch paper
is clipped on my art board and I can experiment with a number of new
oracles or spreads and keep them out to see how they interact over a
few days. This art board is ridged enough to keep the cards from
shifting and it's flat enough to tuck under a bed. If you don't have
an art board you could use a piece of plywood, cardboard or
foamboard.
Next you're going to shuffle up your
favorite Lenny deck and start laying out your cards face up onto the
calendar. Now what will you do with those 5 extra cards??? What
Malkiel and Donnaleigh have done is find the difficult or troublesome
cards and lay a card right on top of that card. Let's say the
clouds, mountain, death, whip or scythe.
You could also set one of the extra
cards at the end of the week and use it has a pairing card for each
day of that week.
I'll be using the Gilded Reverie
Lenormand by Ciro Marchetti. That's a mouthful for me so I call it
the Gilded Lenny. This is a traditional/non traditional deck that is
just as fabulous as all of Ciro's decks. It's traditional as in it
has all 36 traditional Lenormand cards but the are a few surprise
extras. It's also quite a bit larger than a traditional Lenny deck.
The Gilded Lenny has all the
traditional Lenormand cards in it but there are some extra cards as
well. First you have the extra man and woman cards. I use these
extra cards all the time and these are great if you have readings
with same sex couples but there are many occasions where these
significators can be used. I wont be needing the extra man/woman for
this month spread.
There is also two #12 cards, the birds.
I use the cute little red birds for social media. This is gossipy,
water cooler type communications. Chit chat. Conversation light. The
other is owls. Owls are wise creatures delivering meaningful
messages from the divine. While the little red birds chatter about
the mundane the owls bring wisdom. This is the card that brings the
deep spiritual instruction that I need to hear. The birds card can
also be a couple, older couple, grandparents. I've got stuff going
on with my parents so I'll be using this card to represent them.
Ciro has 4 other unique cards that he
has added. #37 is the Time card. You can see all forms of time
represented. It usually means I need to be patient and wait for the
proper timing. #38 is the Bridge. This is a very useful card. In a
3 card line it can bridge the pairing cards for a way through a
situation. #39 is Dice, another great card. Kind of like the Wheel
of Fortune or the Jokers. Something is gonna come and gum up the
works or... something is going to show up and save the day in a big
way!! And lastly is the Mask. #40. Fabulously beautiful this card
could have many meanings. I see it rather like Carnival! A huge
party, lots of fun. There is always a down side to every party and
you can look to where Mr. Grumpy is facing as to what that will be.
So if you want to work with a
traditional Lenny deck you can easily remove all the extra cards. If
you do you will have 6 cards left over. I love all of these cards so
I'm going to be working with 10 extra cards. (minus the x man/woman)
That's a whole lotta cards so I had to really think that one through.
Now I'm going to shuffle these up and
place them on the calendar.
July starts on a Monday so you can see
I'm one space in at this point. I'm laying out all the way to the
end and then I've decided with all these extras I will be using an
end card for paring.
Now that all the calendar spaces are
filled in I'll be setting out the extra cards over some troublesome
cards and also on days/areas that I need a little more information
on.
IT'S OK TO RUNE IT!!
I enjoy working with the energies of
the Runes and often add them to my readings. For each day I pulled a
Rune and recorded each rune on my calendar.
Now that the month is on I'm now able
to refer to the month 2 ways. I can read the month from my journal
and I can also read the month on my art board. I will be keeping the
cards up on my board for the entire month so I can more easily see
all the interactions of the cards.
BUT I DON'T KNOW THE NUMBER
ASSOCIATIONS OF THE LENORMAND CARDS, NOW WHAT???
I too had difficulty associating the
numbers with each card. While you don't really need to remember the
numbers it is quite helpful if you like to journal your readings. It
may seem like a daunting task and Donnaleigh has graciously created a
video series that helps you easily remember each card and it's number
association. As an added bonus she has also created a video on the
court card associations. This is helpful in locating people in the
Lenormand. The Lenormand has it's own numbering associations but it
also has playing card associations and this video specifically helps
you remember the court card/Lenormand card associations.
CHECK OUT THESE LINKY DINKS
Here are links so you can see how
Malkiel and Donnaleigh create their Lenormand Calendar spreads.
Malkiel Rouven Dietrich is a gifted
German psychic and has a great many videos on how to read the
Lenormand. He has done 2 Lenormand Calendar spreads and you can see
those videos in the links I've provided.
Donnaleigh has posted a vido on her
blog and Youtube channel and you can see that here.
DO YOU WANT TO MEMORIZE THE CARD NUMBER
ASSOCIATIONS??? of course you do. Try it, no really, it's very very
easy!!
Now that you've memorized all the
numbers go ahead and check this out! You can memorized all the court
cards in the Lenormand. Also very very very easy.
Peace
Priscilla
