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Almamand Lenormand

Traditional 36-card Lenormand with intricate multi-layered detailed illustrations.

creator unknown · 2016

lenormandfortune-tellingstandard-titlesintricate-art
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Tarot Canon's own assessment, written for this catalog.

Lenormand decks live or die on fidelity to the system, since the cartomancy method depends on fixed meanings attached to fixed titles, and the Almamand Fortune-telling Cards commit to that fidelity completely. Made by artist Katherine Alma-Nhite, whose name supplies the pun in the title, the deck keeps all 36 cards under their standard Lenormand names, with no renaming, no reimagining, and no bonus cards added for novelty. The archive sounds almost relieved about this, and the relief is telling given how many Lenormand decks drift from the pattern to chase originality. What is left to judge, then, is the art rather than the structure, and the illustrations are described as intricate and layered rather than plain. That is the right place to innovate within this system: keep the titles and correspondences intact so the method still works, and spend the creative energy on how each card looks. Readers already fluent in Lenormand and looking for a fresh visual take without relearning the deck get exactly that here.

From the archive

An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.

Don't be confused, the Almamand Fortune-telling Cards are basically a Lenormand deck created by artist Katherine Alma-Nhite - hence the name ALMAmand. It has 36 cards with standard Lenormand titles, no re-names, no re-imaginings, and no extra cards. Each card...

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