First I dug out some printer paper. I lined some cards up on a single sheet so I could see the best fit, and then I lightly traced the cards out with a pencil. Then I put the cards away and retraced the pencil lines with a Sharpie. For following pieces of paper I just laid a new piece of paper over the original, and traced the Sharpie lines that were visible:
That took five sheets of paper (I did the mat in the 8x4 +4 structure). Then I wrote the House and number on each card spot, and lined all the pages up to make sure they matched up with each other:
Finally it was time to try out a Grand Tableau! (Not for the faint of heart!!)
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| Grand Tableau with Gilded Reverie Lenormand |
I expect that eventually I'll have to replace the paper mat, though for now I'm storing it in pieces in a folder for safe keeping. But it took only about twenty minutes to create, and it's really invaluable!
Great idea! I've never done a GT yet. Too scared :)
ReplyDeleteI do have blank cards with the names and numbers of the Lenormand cards which I can lay down on the table in the form of a GT but I have never used them :) (you could also use a second deck)
Mostly I read 3 to 5 cards in a line
I am very curious how you've experienced reading a grand tableau
Whew, I will have to write a post on my experience with GTs so far!!!! So far I find with Lenormand that things feel so obtuse and then suddenly things start to fall into place and are clear in ways that they weren't just a couple of days before. It's funny, I now have three decks!!! Already!… I got the Blue Owl to have something more traditional, and I got the Enchanted Lenormand mostly for the book, but the cards are nice, too :)
DeleteGT's are fascinating... nothing to be scared about and it all links up too... diagonals, verticals, horizontals, sequences, nothing is missing and you get to see what nobody else can, because that is what Lenormand is about...; great fun...
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