Grand Tableau Lenormand

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Connecting all these sentences and structures into a story that makes sense is another challenging aspect of the Tableau. In a Lenormand reading, knighting is used to discover unknown factors that are affecting the situation. For example, knighting can pinpoint things such as underlying motives, or secret desires. Discovering these during the reading can profoundly affect how you understand what is happening, and what you can do next. How to use Knighting in the Grand Tableau In my experience, the key storylines come through the rows and columns, leaving the diagonals to offer details. The cards below Lady is what is in my control, the cards above are what is in my head, what I'm thinking or bothered about. I get a lot of questions about this spread. People want to know how to interpret it. While I can certainly give some form of method on how to interpret it, looking at a grand tableau is an art form. It is not about the corners mean this, that card means that, it’s about connecting everything together and coming with a coherent story.

A Grand Tableau will generally covers a period of time, at a bare minimum a month, but more usually for periods of 6 months to a year (bear in mind, though, unless you specify that you are looking at the future only, this can include past periods as well as future ones!) 9. A Grand Tableau Is Not The Best Layout For All Reader Situations But there are other layouts that can take on Tableau-style features - meaning having their cards being read as part of different lines. My own Hourglass and Diamond layouts are not rectangular or square, but they have Tableau-style features because their cards can be read as part of different lines in these configurations. You can find out more about these layouts here and here . It’s important to go through many layers of meanings and choose to use whichever of these best suits you and your question, so follow your own intuition, mix and match the methods as you see fit. Diagonals can also be read. There are nine from the bottom left to the top right, and another nine from the bottom right to the top left. There are so many of them that most authors don’t read them all systematically. Instead, they might just focus on the ones that seem to stand out because of specific cards that seem more relevant to the query. We included a few short interpretations since there were so many cards - but a story here starts to emerge as well. Perhaps this person had financial troubles in the past due to their inexperience, leading the querent to place a lot of emphasis on wealth in their later life. They may have put all their hopes around making a better living and amassing possessions, only to feel empty and lonely later on. This again may be something that the querent is not fond of recognizing in themselves.

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The same is done in the Petit Lenormand Grand Tableau: You start at the card you want to analyze, and then you jump around and find the cards that can be knighted with the card in question. Using the spread we used in the Basic Lenormand Grand Tableau Techniques, we have the following when we knight the gentleman (card #28): What is appreciated by the querent or by others? What is being given? What gifts does the querent receive? Interestingly, the 7-card line can be more challenging to read than the nine-card portrait. That’s because the longest line in a portrait is made up of just 3 cards. The number of cards that knight the significator will depend on the placement of the significator in the spread. Cards to the left of where you (the Querent, Man or Woman) fall generally represent past influences, cards to the right, represent the future. This means a Grand Tableau reading could contain mainly information about past influences, mainly future influences or an even mix of both. It depends entirely on the position of the Querent card. So it is NOT necessarily a purely predictive reading. That said, if you specifically ask for a GT to be a future-only reading and set a FUTURE timeframe from the outset, it can be read that way. The main point is it is about interconnection between different life areas. 4. Your Querent’s position in the spread is important

The first thing you should know is that knighting can only be done with a grand tableau. The Lenormand Grand Tableau (9 x 4 or 8×4+4), or any spread that allows you to jump around like a Knight piece in a chess game. This means that you will need a 3×3 spread to read at the very least. However, the details garnered from this technique are better when used with a Lenormand Grand Tableau. It is also of importance as some cards face one way or the other (in particular the people cards, but also the Whip, Scythe and Book) which then focuses their effect in one direction and thus modifies the meaning depending on how the other cards are positioned. In the Grand Tableau, it is not just a single card, but rather, the four cards at the center of the spread. In this instance, the picture of one’s love life is a quite grim. The story that is starting to come together seems to paint a portrait of a relationship where there is doubt and one-sidedness, though the querent is perhaps choosing to avoid seeing this. As we stated before, knighting can reveal what is hidden, and these can be sometimes uncomfortable truths. Knighting the Fish - Example Lenormand Reading

As Readers, we aspire to the Grand Tableau and similar Tableau-style layouts where we can read the cards in all sorts of amazing ways. But what is Tableau-style exactly, and what makes it so special? The right diagonal represents the possibilities. The upper right diagonal shows conscious opportunities and the bottom diagonal shows the unconscious opportunities.