For the life of me
In the video recording above, I ask a simple question: ‘can I answer big questions with small cards?’
Those familiar with my work will already know the answer. In addition to saying yes, in this short recording I make a point about using the Lenormand cards and the playing cards in order to answer big existential questions, for indeed, it is not the exclusive domain of the tarot cards to either mirror or downright sit on the heavy duty quandaries of life, as popular opinion insists.
Although the popular opinion holds the view that there’s a divinatory difference between the various types of cards, I have always disagreed. Playing cards and the Lenormand oracle cards are no less powerful for certain type of questions than the tarot cards are. They are the same. They perform the exact same function in divination, and they hold the exact same promise for an answer as the tarot cards do.
While it may be easier to identify with the types – or, as some prefer, the archetypes of the major arcana in the tarot – these identifications can amount to exactly nothing when the context for a question doesn’t call for any identifications. But it has become the norm to think that identification is the big game in divination, even when, in actuality, it isn’t.
The big game in divination is not the identification with random types that enforce and validate a desired identity. Rather, in divination the big game is all about identifying correctly the predicament in a situation, and then prognosticate from there.
As I’ve stated this much, offering countless demonstrations too in just about all my books that focus on divination, I’ll stop the writing here, since the focus of this post is a visual message, but it bears repeating that what we ought to be after is how we address a question by relating what we see in the cards to the specific context of the question.
That is to say, we don’t start with ‘this card means that idea.’ Rather, we start with how an image relates to a situated context.
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The Big Book of Lenormand
I like to call it that, big, because the third volume in the Read like the Devil trilogy is precisely that, big, in every sense of the word.
My Lenormand book is big on ideas, examples, student questions and teacher’s answers, feedback, and philosophies.
