New Postmark Lenormand deck available for pre-order!

Hi friends!

I’m pretty stoked to announce that I’ve fin­ished another deck of cards!

If you’re a taro­tist, you’ve prob­a­bly heard of The Read­ers Stu­dio. This is a year con­fer­ence held in NYC and orga­nized by The Tarot School. This year I’ll be pre­sent­ing a PM Study Group on the topic of div­ina­tion with the Lenor­mand Ora­cle. I started rack­ing my brains back in Sep­tem­ber try­ing to fig­ure out the best way to teach a class about a deck of cards that it was unlikely that every­one would have a copy of — so I decided that what I needed to do was bring copies of a deck to the con­fer­ence for my Study Group aten­dees to use. I’m sadly out of Melissa Lenor­mands and the Wicked Sibyl isn’t exactly the most tra­di­tional deck out there (nor is it fin­ished, stop chomp­ing at the bit about that one for a few months now!! ). I started work on a sim­pli­fied, clar­i­fied deck of cards that would con­vey the tra­di­tional sym­bols, titles, num­bers and play­ing card suits. The result is the Lenor­mand below — which, for the pur­poses of dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing it from all the other decks out there — I’m call­ing the Post­mark Lenor­mand (the title card uses a post­mark and a first class mail stamp).

The deck has 36 cards, one title card. It will come with a LWB pam­phlet of key­words and be sent with a sim­ple bag. I wish I had pho­tos of the fin­ished prod­uct to show you, but I need to take pre-orders to help off­set print­ing costs. Here’s how orders on this Lenor­mand deck will work:

• If you’re going to be at my PM Study Group at Read­ers Stu­dio, DON’T pre-order the deck. You will be given the oppor­tu­nity to buy a copy at a dis­count after the workshop.

• If you’re plan­ning on being at Read­ers Stu­dio and want to pick one up from me there, you can pre-order one and NOT pay any ship­ping (just spend the funds for the deck via pay­pal to melissa@tarotbymelissa.com and let me know what it’s for and who you are).

• If you can’t make it to New York at the end of April and want me to mail you one in early May (when I get back from the con­fer­ence), you can order one and pay extra shipping.

The deck will be $18 + ship­ping. 36 cards, 1 title card, LWB with key­words, in a nice lit­tle bag (that will NOT be organza, don’t worry!). The cards are poker-sized (so keep in mind when view­ing the images I’ve posted that almost half an inch will be cut from the sides of each card).

You can pre-order the new deck at it’s new web­site http://lenormand.info.

New cards!

I have three new cards done on the ora­cle deck. The Fox, the Woman and the Tree cards are all fin­ished. You can see all of them on the ora­cle deck page. I have been hav­ing a ball work­ing on this when I get the time. I really need about six extra hours in the day if I’m going to get any­thing done at all.

Oh, I also redid the read­ings page finally. Haha. I know a few of you have been pes­ter­ing me about that! Let me know if some­thing is con­fus­ing or unclear.

This week I prob­a­bly won’t be able to do any more cards. I have a marathon sewing ses­sion ahead of me for Hal­loween. My hus­band needs me to sew him a lab coat a la Dr. Hor­ri­ble. For me, I’m going as a for­tune teller (of course!) and I’m going to try to sew a com­plete under­bust corset. This will prob­a­bly end with a lot of curs­ing and hang­ing out with my friend Jack (the seam rip­per). I haven’t even decided what the kids are going to be — but prob­a­bly some­thing sim­ple — using mate­ri­als I already have in my fab­ric stash. I have a hunch I may just cut eye holes in a sheet for Sul­li­van. I know it’s a ridicu­lously sim­ple cos­tume, but in my head he’d love it and be so cute!

Halloween/Samhain is my absolute favorite time of the year. And then on Nov. 1st, we’re going to go to a Dia de los Muer­tos fes­ti­val. I have my house all dec­o­rated for it. I prob­a­bly dec­o­rate more for har­vest sea­son and Hal­loween than I do for Yule. And right now I’m batty (get it, batty!) about Hal­loween or skull themed tarot decks, of course!

I actu­ally got some new tarot decks this week. Thanks to some great peo­ple on a cer­tain tarot forum, I now have a copy of MRP’s Fairy Tale tarot. I also have the com­pan­ion book for the Fan­tas­tic Menagerie finally! This is one of my absolute favorite decks, so I’m pretty happy about that. Once I’ve had a chance to sit down the Fairy Tale, I’ll post a review.

Next up on my wish­list would be Lisa Hunt’s Fairy Tale deck. Looks absolutely lovey and dreamy and soft! Maybe for Yule.

I have a novel to read before mid­night tonight for my Eng­lish Lit class and some Span­ish home­work to do for tomor­row! Have a great day everyone!

October TarotSense

The first issue of my new newslet­ter Tarot­Sense is now up. This took a lot longer than I thought it would and I’m pretty proud of it, so check it out! Here is a direct link to the file!