The Lenormand “GT Mandala”

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although this post is somewhat redundant to my “GT Architecture” presentation and has become divorced from it by intervening topics as well as decoupled in time, it’s worth seeing all of the features combined in a single graphic.

The array of cards surrounding the Significator Card (SC) in a Lenormand Grand Tableau is sometimes called a “constellation,” but to me when fully expanded to include all possible sub-routines and patterns it looks more like a “spiral-arm galaxy,” and when the positions are color-coded it resembles a mandala. If we have more than one theme card in the spread, we can have a case of “colliding galaxies” where the extremities become mingled. Below is what I consider to be the “extended footprint” of a single SC or theme card, although it is truncated by the boundaries of the spread. I tried to keep it symmetrical so I left out “advice” cards, “message” cards, “house” correlations and other unique features.

Here I’ve placed the “mandala” within the standard 9×4 Grand Tableau layout, which means that not all of the sub-routines are fully populated; the complete mandala contains a possible 63 positions (9×7), of which only 36 can be populated in an actual reading. (Note that “Kn” means “knighting,” a way to link the Significator to various other cards using the famous “chess move.”

Originally published at http://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com on November 11, 2023.