I have been gifted a vintage Lenormand (this: http://spielkartenonline.de/product.php?id_product=3305) with cards 8 and 10 missing. The deck has a lovely energy to it and I’d like to use it. So I’ve been thinking what to do about the missing cards. My first thought was to recreate or otherwise add the two cards, but then I decided it was the ‘fate’ of the deck to be read without Scythe and Coffin. The previous owner took them out for a reason, adding the cards now would disturb the energy of the deck for me. I’m not a confident Lenormand reader and certainly not someone who would do a grand tableau, but, obviously, the deck will speak differently without those two cards. Does anyone else read with incomplete decks?

Ha ha! I enjoy your sense of humour. It just wants to feel things and eat grapes. But yeah. It's hard not to see the Empress and the Emperor as totally divergent energies. They both seem so immersed in their separate roles. I wonder if they can interact with each other at all. Is there any modicum of cooperation or understanding between them? 'Just you wait till your father gets home!' 'I'll let your mother deal with that.'