Wednesday: Well-Regarded Older Man Sweeps In To Show Support & Bolster Historical Alliance Against Enemy

Wednesday 22nd February 2023

Today’s reading is with the Blue Bird Lenormand deck. This is one of the few decks with verse insets intended to convey the meaning of the cards, at least according to that deck’s designer. They broadly align with the original Lenormand cards’ “Philippe Lenormand” instructions ( purported to be from a descendant of the infamous Mlle Lenormand herself, despite the association with her with these cards being more of a marketing ploy by the German manufacturers than anything else) but it does make them rather inflexible in some ways. This deck works well in a Grand Tableau where you’re trying out strictly traditional ways of reading.

So. The card at the centre is the Cavalier (Rider), meaning, in the case of my reading Upcoming News, A Person Riding In (and unlike the inset on this version of the cards, in my and many other readers’ experience, I wouldn’t agree that the Rider always means “good news”. Just “something being delivered, or that’s upcoming or someone new riding onto the scen…