What is French Cartomancy?

Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. In France, the 32-card piquet stripped deck is most typically used in cartomantic readings, although the 52 card deck can also be used. (A piquet deck can be a 52-card deck with all of the 2s through the 6s removed.

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What are Lenormand decks?

Lenormand Tarot Decks. Oracle decks (and some tarot decks) created in the Lenormand tradition. Lenormand decks generally have 36 cards, and are based on an old German card game, later renamed after the 19th century French fortune-teller, Mademoiselle Marie Anne Lenormand. Regarding this, what does the joker mean in fortune-telling? He corresponds to The Fool in the Tarot deck and has some of the same meanings in the regular deck of playing cards. His number is zero and he is truly a "wild card." When the Joker appears in a reading, it means that something unexpected and uncontrolled can occur.

What is difference between tarot and Oracle?

But unlike traditional tarot decks, which come in packs of 78, oracle decks can include any number of cards. What's more, while tarot cards include a Major Arcana and a Minor Arcana arranged into suits, oracle decks don't follow this structure. There are no rules, and the possibilities are endless. What is a Lenormand Oracle? The Lenormand is another divination tool with a similar history (and purpose) to that of the Tarot. It is a 200 year old system from the heart of Europe; a deck of 36 cards that has held its place in the living rooms and salons of France and Germany for several generations.

Why do Lenormand cards have playing cards?

WHAT THE SUITS MEAN. The Lenormand pips are those of the regular playing cards: Hearts, clubs, diamonds, and spades. Classically, these four suits correspond to the four elements: Water, fire, earth, and air. So you'd think that they would match nicely to the Tarot's four suits: Cups, wands, pentacles, and swords.