Cartomancy

This is a thread for decks that have cards in common with Lenormand, but aren't Lenormand decks. One of my favorites is the 1855 Zauberkarten from Vienna: I just found my deck a little while ago when I was organizing some stuff. It's a fun deck. I've moved it to the table with the decks I'm currently using. You get some images in common with Lenormand, like the Dog, Key, Clouds, Ring, Snake, Child, Lilies, and some others. But you also get images like these: Shackles, a Trap, Man Holding Up a Clenched Fist, Old Coffee Sister Man Moving a Big Rock Uphill, Woman With a Baby Passing A Note To a Man, Beggar, Knight …

There is a LS verson of Grimaud/France Cartes La Sibylle des Salons (Parlour Sibyl). It's smaller, the colors are printed inside the lines (my Grimaud has issues), and it's dirt cheap. Should be a win/win, right? Well, no. You can see the original title in french directly under the image: Chagrin, larmes. Sorrow, tears. And it's obvious from the image that the girl's dog has died. So why did LS put "Infantilism" in the corners in multiple languages? Grief isn't "infantile." Mature, well adjusted people cry over dead pets. I might end up lopping the borders off. I've heard of them doing things like this with other decks, even some of the …

In a previous thread, we discussed how to figure out our Tarot Birth Card. I just found out that it has an equivalent in cartomancy - the Life Card! It's quite simple and straightforward really, and there's no need for any calculation. Just look at the table below: Find your month of birth on the first row and your day of birth on the first column. Take note of the cell where they intersect. That there contains your Life Card. So for example, if you're born on January 1, by looking at the table you'd see that your Life Card is the King of Spades. January 2 equates to the Queen of Spades, 3 to the Jack, etc. Now once you find out your Life Card, go to The …

These decks are going to be getting a lot of attention soon, since Bababarock is publishing one of their own and a restoration of an old deck, as well. And I found a video with card meanings that are basically sound. This is for the Art Deco cards, but that deck is closely related to the Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten and Biedermeier Aufschlagkarten. (Note: they are NOT interchangable with Kippers, French or Italian Sibilla.) So the video is useful for those cards, as well. I also want to add that this is not an endorsement of the guy who owns the channel, who is apparently selling Art Deco cards at his etsy shop for $74 (!) Anything more than about $10-12 for a Piatnik deck…

Guests Posted 14 minutes ago Hi all, I became a member today to hopefully find an answer. I came across a very old, worn deck. It is like nothing I have ever seen before. It does not contain the standard: cups, queens, wands, swords and it has inscriptions in 4 different languages. I did google some of the inscriptions and it appears to be in Hungarian, German, Latin and one other language I could not make out. The cards are very literal. ie. they spell out "thief, jealously, death, pens…

I am curious if anyone has any tips on traditional cartomancy books? There is a jungle out there on meanings on the cards. They seem to differ A LOT. So has anyone here any experience on the subject?

In some instances, I have read that Cartomancy refers (in general) to the use of cards for the purpose of divination. This presumably includes all categories of decks which are used for this particular purpose ; Tarot, Lenormand, Oracle, Playing Cards, Kipper etc. etc. In other instances, it is stated that Cartomancy refers solely to the use of Playing Cards for the purpose of divination. There is a similar crossover in the language which refers to Oracle Cards. Again, in some instances the term Oracle Cards refers solely to the less rigidly-structured system of picture-themed cards (Angel, Mermaid, Fairy, Unicorn, Energy, Cosmos etc. etc.) which a…

I post a link (below) toward a video-interview with Dmitry Korolev about Russian cartomancy: "the Babushka Way". Here it is a general presentation concerning what is Russian cartomancy, but it is a clear and lively presentation. I tried to find this video on YouTube but apparently it only exists on Facebook (for now at least). Dmitry Korolev is young but quite knowledgeable! In a few words, Russian cartomancy is folk cartomancy, and traditional. There are definite meanings (not too much) for the cards, and definite spreads to deal with a Russian deck of 36 playing cards. It's really interesting and Russian cartomancy seems easier than French car…

Hi folks, I've posted an article which might interest some of you on the spread called 'the Great Game' (le Grand Jeu) and some of the cartomantic meanings from a French work on the subject, and it is online here. As far as I can tell, these meanings go back to Etteilla's works, via a 19th century book on cards.

Hi all, I've started a blog series here https://fennario.wordpress.com/tag/series-on-the-grand-jeu/ If you have anything you'd like to see, post here and I'll certainly consider writing about it at some point in the series. While I do have a general structure in mind, I want to make this something that people find useful. So your questions and concerned will be addressed. It might not be right away - I'm starting with basics and gradually working through different aspects of the deck and how it's used. But I'll be bookmarking this thread and returning to it as I add to the series.

Do you know Le Petit Cartomancien? It's a French deck of 36 cards. I have it, don't use it much (my bad!), but it could interest people. The meanings of the cards are written in French on the cards (there is a meaning for the card upright and also reversed). It's short so you can type what is written and have a good translation with google translate since the sentences aren't complicated. The LWB is actually just one leaf, in French only for the edition that I have. Very simple, nothing more about the meanings concerning the cards (nevertheless there is a list of combinations when you pull 2,3 or 4 Kings/Queens/Jacks/ etc.) but an explanation regarding the …

I am very new to tarot so please excuse my complete ignorance. For the last two months I've basically been playing around and just starting to get familiar with it. However, over the last week something happened at work. This is something that I completely screwed up and my boss is about to come back from leave and find out. The issue is that I've known about about the screw-up for some time and just kept putting off fixing it. Anyway, for the last three days I've been pretty stressed and concentrating on what's happened I've drawn a card from the major arcana to see what it says. And every single day it has come up the same: Death. I did it thi…

I'm really curious about the name of the spread on the cover of this French cartomancy book and how it's read. It is identical in layout to one I created - having never seen this one - for the purpose of missing-person tarot readings. ETA: I just realized this isn't a Lenormand book, so this post is probably in the wrong section. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kz9ay5wf44526er/Train to Nowhere Spread.pdf?raw=1