Reading with Common Sense
As most examples we find in divination books tend to show positive or advantageous situation, I’d like to show an example where things don’t look so good, a complex relationship. This was a general reading I made a few days ago for a woman in her 30’s, married, for the next 6 months. As...
Mandy finished college a few months ago and has a hard time finding a job. She’s getting interviews but nothing comes out of them. She’s wondering why and what could be done to improve her chances. There are two spreads I use for looking at what caused an issue or to find the root...
Do you want to improve drastically your readings? If I may, I have 2 pieces of advice: work on your questions and answer the question you’re asking without deviating.The questionGoing through my practice and what I see around me, it’s quite evident that most people have a hard time formulating a good question to...
When looking at old cartomancy decks and specifically the Petit Lenormand, it seems quite apparent that most of them have an inset filled with a playing card. In the case of the Petit Lenormand, the reason for having such an inset is unknown as this was not described with the first deck; it might...
Stephanie is a mother of two. She has a few problems with Nick, her 11 years old son; he is not behaving as he should at school and home, not listening and trying to push boundaries as much as he can. The question Stephanie asked was “where are Nick’s behavioral problems coming from?” For...
Listening recently to an interview of Bjorn Meuris, a wonderful Petit Lenormand reader from Belgium, I was remembered of a new practice I have seen in the last few years. It has become quite common, when looking at facebook groups and online forums, that new elements have been added to the Petit Lenormand system....
A few days ago, Kate came for a general reading for the next 3 months. Kate is in her late 20’s, single and works freelance in the design business. For general readings, I always found that nothing beats a grand tableau; I interpret these with what is called the method of distance, where the...
Just a quick tip today, as I’m on vacation and will be unavailable for the next 10 days. In your daily and weekly readings, If you tone down your interpretations, they will become more realistic. Just to illustrate what I mean, here is an recent example found in a cartomancy forum, it was a...
My friend Tom, who works in the computer industry, got recently a phone call from an ex colleague for a job opening. After a successful interview, he was offered the job. But now Tom is reconsidering, and he asked me to do a reading to compare the two options, staying at his current job...
These last few months, I have been experimenting with a spread described in Mary Marco’s 1989 book. She calls it “réponse immédiate à une question précise”, which could be translated to “immediate response to a precise question”. It consists of 3 lines of 5 cards. What attracts me to this spread, is that it...
When looking at most facebook groups and forums, it seems that there is a lot of confusion on how to reply to a yes/no type of question. We find many different methods, mostly having to do with the cards insets or a predefined list of positive, negative and neutral cards. I don’t believe these...