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Course in Reading the Lenormand Cards
Taught by Mary K. Greer Curious about what everyone finds so intriguing in the 36 card Lenormand deck? Join me in this five-week online course from 1 October to 5 November (no class on Oct. 22)....
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Did the Cathars invent Tarot?
Want a good, medieval mystery to read? The Song of the Nightingale by Alys Clare, sent this blogger, C. LaVielle, on a journey into the real life mystery of the origins of Tarot. As she notes, a...
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Lenormand Playing Card Inserts: Possible Sources
I’ve completed one session of my 5-week Petit Lenormand course and can hardly wait until the next session. I have so much information to share. I recently bought a very early 20th century booklet on...
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Reading the Marseilles Tarot
It’s been a long time since I was really excited and intrigued by a new ‘how-to’ book on reading the Tarot. Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov’s Tarot—The Open Reading is a book I just have to share with you. Ben-Dov...
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October Tarot Weekend Workshops with Mary K. Greer
Have you been looking for an opportunity to study in-depth Tarot with me? I’m very excited to announce I’ll be teaching for three days in Kingston ON, Canada in October: “Unmasking Your Intuitive...
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Learn to Read the Lenormand Cards this May!
Good News: My 5-session “Course on Reading the Petit Lenormand Cards” is available on-line or DVD and is getting a bump with a free Skype Q&A session with me on May 7th, 2014. Those who’ve bought...
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The Imitation Game – the Fox, the Bear and the Devil
How many of us go to a movie or a play—even a really good one—and a couple of days or weeks later don’t remember a thing about it? Yes, movies have a role in relaxation and just plain momentary...
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A Visit to Mlle. Lenormand by Marie, Comtesse d’Agoult
In June of 1834, Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d’Agoult (later known as the writer Daniel Stern), at the urging of her friend, novelist Eugène Sue, sought a reading with Mlle. Lenormand that...
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The Grave of Arthur Edward Waite
Many people have been incensed by the lack of a known grave for Pamela Colman Smith, artist of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot. But how many people have made pilgrimage to the gravesite of Arthur Edward...
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285 Year-old Coffee-Ground and Card Readings
This post should help place the Viennese Coffee-Ground Cards of 1796, forerunners of the Petit Lenormand deck, in the context of the time. In 1724 eighteen-year-old Benjamin Franklin and his good...
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Pamela Colman Smith: “out of the heart of the Heights”
“She has always been strange. There is not a page of her life, not an incident, that is not overflowing with romance.” I’ve just discovered a lengthy article about Pamela Colman Smith in The Brooklyn...
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Pamela Colman Smith 1896-1899 – an American girl to be proud of
Pamela Colman Smith, called “Pixie” by her friends, was born to American parents on February 16, 1878 in London, England and died September 18 1951, at the age of 73 in Bude, Cornwall. Despite her...
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Pamela Colman Smith 1907 – story teller
“Once in a long before time before Queen Victoria came to reign over we . . .” This post features newspaper articles from Pixie’s 1907 visit to New York where she concentrated on presenting her...
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Pamela Colman Smith 1909 – magic spectacles
N NOVEMBER of 1909, Pixie wrote Alfred Stieglitz that she had “just finished a big job for very little cash!” These were the black and white designs for a pack of Tarot cards. She also mentions her...
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Pamela Colman Smith 1912 – correspondences
With these later news articles it becomes apparent how much of Pamela Colman Smith’s work has been lost. We find a tendency among the reporters to “damn with faint praise” as Pixie moves out of the...
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Pamela Colman Smith 1904 – The Green Sheaf
I just had to add this additional piece from The Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, September, 1903, p. 331-332. MISS Pamela Coleman Smith was born of American parents in London, where her father...
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Learn Lenormand – March 3 & 10, 2015
Dog-Liliac Twilight Sign up NOW for my 2-part Lenormand Webinar (March 3 & March 10), designed to benefit anyone with a basic knowledge of the Lenormand deck. Do you know what the Dog card means?...
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Stephen Hawking on Prediction and Astrology
“Watch out for wormholes: you never know what may come out of them.” – Stephen Hawking One of the first things people want to know about Tarot is how it works. Most seasoned practitioners will admit...
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Pixie’s First Paid Design
from American Printer and Lithographer, vol. 31, 1900. “A young designer, whose work has considerable interest, is Miss Pamela Coleman Smith. Miss Smith was a student of Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn,...
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Souls That Do And Dare
Drawing by Pamela Coleman(sic) Smith in the Metropolitan Magazine, 1907.Filed under: Pamela Colman Smith
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