I'd like to try something other than tarot and these two are the ones I'm considering. From what I've read the Lenormand can be "blunter" than tarot and that is one thing that appeals to me, perhaps the Playing Card Oracles are the same. If you've used both, what are the strengths and weaknesses of these two systems? Are they used for different types of readings? Which would you recommend to start with?
I have used both if your talking about your everyday ordinary deck of playing cards.
I used the "playing cards" for years and followed a particular style/method. It was very accurate and covered all areas of ones life, but in a "general way". No questions needed to be asked, but the sitter did need to randomly select 13 cards. However, having said that, they were quite on to it from car accidents, hospital visits, buying homes/cars, baby girls or boys to be born, health problems, winning money to people you needed to watch out for!
May depend on what method you use, but I found for PLAYING CARDS and the method that I used:
STRENGTHS:
1) Covered alot of everyday things/events/people without being too negative or caught up in the macabre. e.g. Future death prediction.
2) Didnt need any questions at all.
3) Easy to read after some time individual cards, pairs, triples, combos and left to right...middle...front to back.
WEAKNESSES:
1) Couldnt always nail who it was talking about specifically outside of the sitter if other KINGS, QUEENS, JACKS came up as there were no star signs or physical traits to go by for the method I used. Would maybe get down to female or male - young or old, but that was it. However, at times sometimes the sitter could work it out, if there were things going on at the time with a particular person that fell into the card chosen at the time. eg Moody male.
The Lenormand tackle specific questions, I dont feel they are "blunter" as the tarot can be quite a reality kicker, however, the Lenormand have lesser cards to deal with and can be quite to the point if you know how to phrase your questions and are objective.
STRENGTHS:
1) Direct and to the point.
2) Less cards to shuffle and work with as a reader.
3) Specific questions/Specific answers.
WEAKNESSES:
1) May not show the layers and depths like Tarot would depending on what you want to find out in a question.
2)) Not as structured as tarot can be depending what method you learn. (I like that).
Hope that helps in some small way....
NOTE: Go with something like Blue Owl or Mystique to start with...traditional ones...avoid the ones with lots of writing as this can be distracting and/or if you understand French/German etc it may bias your own intuition or development.
