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In the cartomancy world a regular deck of cards can be used as any oracle. There is tradition to each card's translation and the meanings have not changed for ages.
In the Lenormand -small deck- are inserted the regular playing cards as if they had a correlation with the meanings of Lenormand. It is very far from the truth. Actually if you compare the traditional meanings of the regular playing cards with the TRADITIONAL meanings of the Lenormand, often it won't fit right -sometimes it does though.
Since this is about my work and 30 years of developing a system more accurate and dead on for professional readings, the meanings of the regular playing cards are even less connected. The only time as you have noticed there is a use for them is for the court -kings, queens specifically. But not in their traditional meanings -Lenormand or regular- but for their physical descriptions most of the time.
So for example translating the snake card by the old traditional meaning of a rival woman only is not right at least in my book! That is why if you read the snake in "The Secrets of the Lenormand Oracle" there is more meanings into the card than that...but as far as the physical description it does connect with the tradition.
So the reasoning of why I did discard the regular playing cards is because of some incompatibilities between the way the traditional Lenormand translates the meanings and the traditional cartomancy ones. This incompatibility is the proof that not all the meanings of Lenormand are accurate right from the start. Some meanings -translations- do not make sense if you look at the symbol picture and the corresponding playing card...So what went wrong? oral tradition! words and understandings got distorded over time and went on generation after generation without anyone questioning the issue. Plus most people who really master the deck won't tell you all its secrets because accessing to its divination features can make you a damned good psychic!!! why would you create new competitors to your business?! So a lot of time the masters were only telling to very few and that was it.
But then it is opening the door for the traditionalists to debate this argument and for you guys to get more confused. I mentioned the corresponding playing card symbol in the book because I felt it was fair to do so. But in reading they do not bear much influence -at least in my book and system.
So do not loose sleep over it!