What I’m working on

2nd Ed. Melissa Lenormand

As you may have guessed from the few cards I threw up on face­book, I am con­sid­er­ing a sec­ond edi­tion of the Melissa Lenor­mand. I can get the cards printed eas­ily enough — just try­ing to wrap my head around what­ever I’ll be wrap­ping the cards in. Of course I have a few options, some eas­ier than oth­ers. Full color tuck­boxes are out unless I can raise the funds for print­ing *before* — and do a very large card order. I’ve found some indie crafts­peo­ple who spe­cial­ize in cus­tom pack­ag­ing for arti­sans who may be able to help with unique and func­tional boxes. The other (quickie) option is to put them in satin bags. I haven’t thought through the logis­tics of deck dis­tri­b­u­tion — but in the past two weeks I’ve got­ten no less than two dozen requests for the deck… and I’m fig­ur­ing that it’s a sign from The Uni­verse that this is some­thing I should at least think about.

The sec­ond edi­tion will have cream bor­ders, a dif­fer­ent title font, will include the card num­ber and have a dif­fer­ent jewel-toned blue back. I think they’re more beau­ti­ful than the first edi­tion. The proof prints I’ve got­ten — the col­ors are more vibrant. I’ve only tin­kered with the art min­i­mally. I’ll also design two new alter­na­tive Man & Woman cards to go with the deck. Maybe a Happy Squir­rel or a Cat card…

The Post­mark Lenor­mand is sold out!

I’ll order new cards as soon as I am able to. I don’t see any changes to the art­work in the future, but if you have any ideas or sug­ges­tions of what you’d like to see in a sec­ond print-run, now is the time to man­i­fest those desires!

Lenor­mand 101

Since I had to record all of the lec­ture mate­r­ial for the webi­nar sep­a­rate from the webi­nar any­way (there was some funky tech­ni­cal issues)… I’m think­ing I may make Lenor­mand 101 a stand-alone dig­i­tal down­load. This way you can watch the videos and go through the work­books at your own pace. Since this is fresh in my mind and I’ve thought of almost noth­ing else all week, this is the pri­or­ity project for me.

This would also solve the dilemma I’ve had about adding new class mate­r­ial — I can just serve up the addi­tional mate­r­ial as addi­tional mod­ules. This way you can pick the learn­ing bun­dle you’re most inter­ested in. Mod­ules I’m work­ing on right now include:

• The lan­guage of Lenormand
• Cre­at­ing strong nar­ra­tive in your Grand Tableau
• Lenor­mand for fic­tion writers
• Writ­ing Car­to­scopes with the Grand Tableau
• Tim­ing the­ory in Lenormand
• Lenor­mand sym­bol­ism in pop­u­lar culture
• And a few oth­ers that are still baby ideas in my brain…

With the class, you would get the core infor­ma­tion — the 2 hours of lec­tures on videos and the 2 PDF guides. And then you could add the addi­tional mod­ules as you like — to cus­tomize your learn­ing expe­ri­ence. Alter­nately, if you decide after tak­ing the 101 class that you’d like to deepen your Lenor­mand stud­ies, you could pur­chase the mod­ules separately.

The only hes­i­ta­tion I have for this model is — I hon­estly can­not pro­vide good email sup­port for Q&A. I am already totally over­whelmed by email as it is. But I feel like if I’m teach­ing I need to be avail­able to answer ques­tions. So my ques­tion to you is: Would you be inter­ested in monthly tele-jam Think Tanks? Where we have a con­fer­ence call sched­uled for Q&A with me on any Lenor­mand 101 top­ics? My cur­sory thoughts:

• This would require some kind of RSVP because if no one wants to chat, I won’t hire a babysitter
• This would require some kind of small mon­e­tary invest­ment (because you won’t show up when you say you will if it doesn’t)
• We can cover Lenor­mand basics, card com­bi­na­tions and read­ings — even a Tableau if you’re stuck
• We can work together using Orphalese or my GT Wid­get. I have my “tech team” work­ing on a web-based Lenor­mand app… but for now, those two pro­grams will have to work.

If you’re inter­ested, take a moment to fill out this form:

The Wicked Sibyl

Shelved. Again. We’ll see… A pumpkin-spiced cof­fee might just get me in the mood…

Look­ing for­ward to your thoughts! Tell me what you want to see me work­ing on!