Coffee Ground Symbol Meaning & More (Lenormand)

[La Force]

I was doing some research into the Coffee Ground meanings, history, etc. While I was doing that I found that not only does Lenormand cards derive from, but also the Marseille Oracle cards, probably others. so I just thought to share. I can now understand, why and how the The English Lenormand Oracle came to be, then to be what we now know to be The Lenormand Oracle.

Divination Meanings: (Look familiar?)

http://turkishhomeware.weebly.com/1...ymbols-at-turkish-coffee-fortune-telling.html

http://aristipposian.wordpress.com/tasseography/list-of-symbols/

http://www.turkishcoffeecupreadings.com/p/please-translate-reading-what-is-around.html

History:

http://www.essex-psychic.co.uk/#/tasseography-history-origins/4552035772

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasseography

How to make and read coffee ground. or just enjoy your lenormand cards.

http://www.cafenation.net/turkish.shtml

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[La Force]

So basically Lenormand Cards are both playing card cartomancy (inserts) with coffee ground or Tea leaf symbols on them. This makes so much sense now. This put the pieces of the puzzle together for me as to where the images came from. Coffee/Tea leaf and playcard readings where common at those times. What a brilliant idea to put the two together on a deck of cards. IMO

So bottom line is we are reading coffee grounds / Tea leaves on cards, with also the choice to use cartomancy, how freaking awesome is that.

ETA: so you are to use both when reading. their is even tea cups that are made with the playing card inserts on them, WOW sorry I am LOL, cause I'm tickled pink about it and this was an awesome journey to research into this. So you want to know more about the symbol, get a tea leaf or coffee ground reading book, and follow the old traditional playing card meanings and your good to go. I am finding my ground with these cards.

ETA 2: This also now put and verifies that The Marseille Oracle cards are a variant of Lenormand, But with a different name, and has 32 Cards, which goes to the French tradition of divination with playing cards of 32. READ thread here http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=206295 . however I can see this cause of the Marseille Tarot deck was common at the time. 2 + 2 = 4

Marie Anne Lenormand (1768 - 1843) The Marseille Oracle Cards with the same name as the famous French city. The master paper manufactures that specialized in playing cards, are taken from an original deck of 32 cards from 1860 and are considered very valuable, for the special care that was taken in applying the colors by hand. These card we done up not even 20 year later from her passing. Don't you find that interesting in it's self, and how these cards are close to the lenormand deck, as well as when the lenormand deck appeared.

ETA 3: Something else to think about, Think of the GT spread, Think Near and Far, Think of the direction (facing), Then think Coffee grounds Top, bottom, near, far, and facing (handle of cup). Just thought to share that point. That the pattern here is that the Man or Woman cards represent the Handle.

ETA 4: Basically 3x3 (9 card spread) and the GT is the inside of you coffee / tea cup and you read the symbols depending on where they show up inside the cup.

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