Red Hand Lenormand

The Red Hand Lenormand is a fully-illustrated 54 card extended Lenormand Deck printed at the standard playing card size of 2.48" x 3.46" on master quality linen card stock with black core and matte coating, intended for durability, vibrant image reproduction, and ease of handling/shuffling. Each deck is housed in a rigid two-piece box designed to provide protection and longevity even while you’re on the go, and comes with a 50 page booklet for easy reference.

The Red Hand Lenormand is an extended Lenormand deck featuring 54 unique illustrations that depict a gracefully gothic setting. Aside from the standard 36 Lenormand cards, I’ve included an additional 18 that expand the options one can read with. It can be used as a regular Lenormand deck, an expanded Lenormand/Oracle deck, or just a pretty playing card deck according to your preferences.

The Red Hand Lenormand has a stark red and black color scheme with highlights of white here and there, giving it a cohesive look across the entire deck. While the images have a darker horror-esque look, they contain all of the light and dark themes and meanings of a standard Lenormand deck.



What is Lenormand?

The 36 card Lenormand deck is modeled on a deck of cards published c1799 as part of Das Spiel der Hoffnung (The Game of Hope), a game of chance designed by Johann Kaspar Hechtel. Named after the famous French fortune-teller Marie Anne Lenormand, Petit Lenormand (or simply Lenormand) decks have the same card numbering, primary symbols and playing card associations as the cards in Hechtel's Das Spiel der Hoffnung game.

Cartomancy with the Lenormand is similar to that of Tarot. It involves simple, straightforward imagery, but the cards involve more concrete/tangible issues than that of the psychology/spirituality of Tarot. Cards are read more syntactically and can have layers of meanings. You can take into account their literal meaning, imagery, symbolism of the subject of the card, the form, the number of the card or its number within its suit, etc. Cards are not read on their own, and instead depend on other cards around them to form a syntactical “sentence” of imagery.