Teheuti
If you make a list of the 3-4 primary meanings of the 36 cards, you'll find that they are far more in agreement than they are in disagreement among all the different countries. As you get into secondary and tertiary (modern) meanings and things like Near/Far or even reversals, you'll begin to find a little (or a lot) more variation. Still, you'll find that most people will see Garden as social networking and Stars as the internet or web in that they develop out of the 'functional' aspects of the primary meanings (rather than being allegorically symbolic).
TarotLyn: The oldest meanings of the Petit Lenormand can be found in the instruction sheet that accompanied almost all 19th and early 20th century Lenormand decks in every language. You can see it in English here:
http://lenormanddictionary.blogspot.com/p/book-communicates-secret.html
We know that this instruction sheet was published with the Glück deck that Helen Riding considers one of, if not "the," earliest Petit Lenormand deck, c. 1846. The original version was signed by Philippe Lenormand (supposedly the nephew and heir of Mlle Lenormand).
These meanings accord fairly well with what few meanings are given in the Spiel der Hoffnüng game (1799). And they are almost exactly the same meanings found in early coffee ground and tea leaf reading manuals, including a German one from the mid-18th century.
Erna Droesbeke uses this instruction sheet as the basis of her text in the booklet that comes with the CartaMundi deck. These meanings correspond pretty closely with almost all of the verses found on the decks themselves (at least until very recently and who knows what we'll come up with in the near future).
TarotLyn: The oldest meanings of the Petit Lenormand can be found in the instruction sheet that accompanied almost all 19th and early 20th century Lenormand decks in every language. You can see it in English here:
http://lenormanddictionary.blogspot.com/p/book-communicates-secret.html
We know that this instruction sheet was published with the Glück deck that Helen Riding considers one of, if not "the," earliest Petit Lenormand deck, c. 1846. The original version was signed by Philippe Lenormand (supposedly the nephew and heir of Mlle Lenormand).
These meanings accord fairly well with what few meanings are given in the Spiel der Hoffnüng game (1799). And they are almost exactly the same meanings found in early coffee ground and tea leaf reading manuals, including a German one from the mid-18th century.
Erna Droesbeke uses this instruction sheet as the basis of her text in the booklet that comes with the CartaMundi deck. These meanings correspond pretty closely with almost all of the verses found on the decks themselves (at least until very recently and who knows what we'll come up with in the near future).