Pixie's Astounding Lenormand
Lenormand honoring Pamela Coleman Smith's revolutionary tarot illustration legacy.
by Edmund Zebrowski · 1951
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The record
Pamela Coleman Smith affectionately known as Pixie is without doubt the most influential illustrator of tarot decks. Ever. Her idiosyncratic illustrations of the Minor Arcana in the Rider-Waite-Smith deck (as it is now commonly referred to) single-handedly revolutionised the tarot, and ushered in the age of the fully illustrated 78 card deck. Sadly Pixie did not live to see the flowering of her work into the world's most recognisable and popular tarot deck. Nor did she profit from it, dying in abject poverty in 1951. During her lifetime Pixie did not illustrate any other divination decks beside the Rider-Waite-Smith; Lenormand was not, at the time, particularly popular nor was it (or is it) considered to be the repository of esoteric, occult, and magical knowledge that tarot is. Currently interest in Lenormand and other non-tarot divination decks is on the rise. Edmond Zebrowski has taken elements from the Rider-Waite-smith deck as well as other illustrations by Pamela Coleman Smith and fused them into a charming Lenormand deck. Pixie's Astounding Lenormand is a standard 36 card deck with no extras. It comes packaged in a small metal tin, with liftoff lid, painted with scenes from
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