The Grand Tableau: Applying The "Philippe Le Normand" Near & Far Meanings And Method To This Week's GT Reading

How might the "near and far" meanings or Method of Distance affect the interpretation of a Grand Tableau?

In yesterday’s News Coming Up post, we applied the “divination” method from the 1799 parlour game, the Game of Hope (Das Spiel der Hoffnung), the precursor deck created by Johann Hechtel which so-called “Lenormand” cards are now based on, to this week’s news reading. Click the below to read if you missed it:

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Coming Up In The News: "The Game Of Hope" Grand Tableau Read Via Original Instructions

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So today, using the SAME Grand Tableau, but with a different deck, we’re going to take a look at the next ‘stage’ historically, the mid 19th century “Philippe Le Normand” or Method of Distance/Near & Far instructions and apply it to those exact same cards. What will remain the same in the prediction? What will be different?

So here is our GT again, this time using the more classic design, the Blue Bird Lenormand

Here’s a reminder of yesterday’s prediction. How different will today’s be using an alternative method, do you reckon?

A significant male figure in the news will be concerned with his energies, health and growth that is being eroded and lost, with detriments nibbling away at anything positive about thems whittling it all away. He is associated with lies, untrustworthiness, problems, falsehoods, trying to gain advantage and so on and these problems are apparent out in the wider world and to the public in general. The untruths, games and deceptions involve danger, literal attacks, violence. Children are being harmed. This could be happening in a literal mountainous region where the mountains are forming borders but the cards also show an implacable enemy, a barrier, opposition being brought. And the man is the one providing the news here, and all of the above is what that news is about.

The news he’s bringing or contributing to, then, is something supposedly “cunning” and strategic and possibly false that he’s doing aroun that opposition, and the barriers or mountains or his own enmity could be shielding him from what’s happening to the children

The cards suggest that there will be news of death or deaths which will be communicated verbally. Everyone will be talking about this death. Someone could be broadcasting from their ‘castle’ which looks a little like a minaret. Could be media, and there may be a “purity” element, so perhaps someone will be trying to get news with integrity out and broadcast, perhaps?

There’ll also be news of a marriage, promise or a bond there which has something to do with a particular woman or an entity that is given a female persona, like a country. Happiness and joy may also be in the news but there’s light and it’s shining on a particular house or place. A “house of love” associated with the woman or female figure. She has wealth and riches and knowledge or secrets about this connected with the tower, the highest powers in the land.

Below her so influenced by her, we have the ominous stormclouds that seem fated and for a bloody war. It involves sacrifices, might be a religious war, even crusade-like. There are many different choices and directions for it to go in far and wide, all over the world, so it will be spreading. All over the world, power and ‘assets’ everywhere, even empire-building.

There are fated and important friendships and loyalty, and a female figure looking at love, her heart, perhaps dreams, perhaps the grand scheme of things in her home. We also have the “house of the moon and stars”, coincidentally echoing the symbolism of Islam.

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Now onto the main topic for today… the Philippe LeNormand method of distance as applied to the Grand Tableau…

The Birth of “LeNormand" Cards aka “Le Petit Jeu de Mlle LeNormand” & The “Philippe Le Normand” Instructions (Method of Distance)

In the 1840s and 50s, various versions of these same cards started being produced, but rebranded using the name of the celebrated French fortune teller, Marie Anne Lenormand, who had died in 1843.

With them this time came some more detailed instructions on their use, purportedly from a nephew and heir of Mlle Lenormand herself, one Philippe LeNormand, claiming that the cards had been found among his aunt’s possessions and he was bequeathing the instructions of ‘her methods’ thus…