Jennifer Belanger, author and creator of Bare Bones Lenormand
For book, reader, and publishing inquiries, please contact Jennifer at [email protected] or use the Email link below.
For book, reader, and publishing inquiries, please contact Jennifer at [email protected] or use the Email link below.
Bare Bones Lenormand Books and Included 36 Card Cut-Out Bare Bones Lenormand Practice Deck (Book 1)
Master Traditional Lenormand Cartomancy Without Memorization
Learn the core essence of the 36 Petit Lenormand cards, master fluid line readings, and uncover the deep narrative layers of the Grand Tableau.
The Complete Set: Books One, Two, Three, The Workbook, and Book 4 Becoming the Reader are all available for purchase in the links below.
Bare Bones Lenormand grew from a simple idea:
You do not need to memorize hundreds of card combinations to learn to read Lenormand.
You need to understand the cards.
You need to understand their Core Essence, their Natural Behaviors, and what each card contributes to the story. Then you need to learn how those cards work together.
That is what Bare Bones Lenormand is about.
It is a practical approach to learning Lenormand by understanding the cards themselves rather than trying to memorize endless combinations. When you know the cards, understand how they behave, and learn how they speak to one another, something begins to happen:
The cards begin to tell you a story.
Bare Bones Lenormand — Book One - Learn the Cards - Includes a Full Cut-Out 36 Card Practice Deck
A practical beginner’s guide to the traditional 36-card Petit Lenormand system. Learn the foundational core essence, natural behaviors, and key themes of every card—giving you the intuitive confidence to read without relying on rigid combination lookup charts.
Book One takes you through all 36 Lenormand cards and introduces their Core Essence—the central idea and contribution each card brings to a reading.
Rather than overwhelming you with endless lists of meanings, Book One focuses on understanding what each card naturally contributes and developing a relationship with the cards themselves.
You do not need to memorize everything a card could mean.
You need to understand what the card is at its core.
Once you understand that, its meaning can unfold naturally within a reading.
Best for: Beginners, returning readers, and anyone who wants a clear, intuitive foundation in the 36 Lenormand cards.
Includes a full, Bare Bones Lenormand 36 Card Cut-Out Practice Deck
📖 Paperback and Kindle — Amazon
Purchase Book One on Amazon
Bare Bones Lenormand — Book Two - Reading the Cards
Lenormand Card Combinations, 3x3 Box Spread, Line Readings, Card Interactions.
Knowing the individual cards is only the beginning. Reading them is a whole new story.
Book Two takes the next step: learning how cards work together to create a story.
You will learn how to work with:
Move from single-card meanings into fluid story-building. Discover how cards influence, modify, and speak to one another using 2-card pairs, 3-card lines, 5-card spreads, and the iconic 3x3 box layout
The goal is to understand what each card contributes, notice how the cards affect one another, and allow the surrounding cards to build the story.
Because the cards are not isolated meanings.
They are a conversation.
Best for: Readers who know the individual cards and want to become more confident combining them into clear, connected interpretations.
📖 Paperback and Kindle — Amazon
Purchase Book Two on Amazon
Bare Bones Lenormand — Book Three
Putting It All Together: The Grand Tableau- Lenormand Houses, Knighting, Mirroring, Diagonals, Distance & Proximity.
The Grand Tableau is where everything changes.
The definitive guide to reading the 36-card Grand Tableau. Master advanced traditional cartomancy techniques including house placement, mirroring, knighting, diagonal lines, significator tracking, and proximity reading to reveal complex life narratives
All 36 cards are on the table.
The entire Lenormand world is there.
In Book Three, you step into the Grand Tableau and begin exploring the many layers of information available in a full 36-card reading.
You will explore the techniques that help you see more of what the cards are showing you: relationships, patterns, movement, and the additional layers that emerge when all 36 cards work together.
This includes:
Paperback recommended for Book Three
Because Book Three teaches the Grand Tableau through full-layout examples and visual references, the paperback is recommended for the easiest study experience. The Kindle edition is also available for readers who prefer a portable digital reference
The Bare Bones Practice Workbook For Books 1,2,3.
Practice, Practice, and Practice Some More
Lenormand Exercises, Study Workbook, Practical Reading Worksheets, Grand Tableau Practice.
You have learned the cards. You have learned how they work together. Now it is time to practice.
The Bare Bones Practice Workbook is designed to accompany Books One, Two, and Three and give you the opportunity to work directly with what you have learned.
This is not another book of card meanings.
It is a place to practice.
Through guided exercises, you will work with natural behaviors, contributions to the Story, card relationships, and the way meaning develops when cards speak together.
The goal is not simply to find the “right answer.”
It is to become familiar enough with the system that you can stop forcing an interpretation and begin listening to what the cards are actually revealing.
The workbook also uses the full 36-card Grand Tableau as a visual teaching environment, allowing you to see smaller structures—such as pairs, lines, timing, and 3×3 spreads—within the larger tableau.
The Workbook is where you learn to listen.
Best for: Anyone using the Bare Bones Lenormand books who wants structured exercises and hands-on practice.
A hands-on study companion packed with practical exercises, spread analysis, and visual Grand Tableau teaching diagrams designed to transition you from theoretical knowledge to fluent reading
📖 Paperback — Amazon
Purchase the Workbook on Amazon
💻 Digital PDF — Payhip
Purchase the Digital PDF Workbook on Payhip
Purchase the Digital PDF Workbook on Etsy
BARE BONES LENORMAND — BOOK FOUR - Becoming the Reader
Advanced Lenormand Interpretation, Intuitive Card Reading, Timing Techniques, Professional Reader Skills.
Book Four is where everything you have learned becomes your own.
The earlier books teach you the cards, show you how they work together, and guide you through the Grand Tableau. Becoming the Reader takes you beyond the rules and into the experience of reading.
You will explore timing, influence, significators, the different jobs a card may be doing, and the deeper distinctions that help a reading become clear. The focus is not on adding more meanings to memorize. It is on recognizing patterns, understanding what matters in the moment, and trusting your own reading voice.
The cards are the same.
The answers become deeper.
You are the reader.
Best for: Readers who understand the foundations of Lenormand and are ready to develop confidence, judgment, and their own reading voice.
Step beyond rules and formulas into real-world reading mastery. Explore nuanced timing techniques, hidden card influences, reader perspective, and the art of delivering clear, accurate, and deeply intuitive readings.
📖 Paperback and Kindle — Amazon
Purchase Book Four on Amazon
Master Traditional Lenormand Cartomancy Without Memorization
Learn the core essence of the 36 Petit Lenormand cards, master fluid line readings, and uncover the deep narrative layers of the Grand Tableau.
The Complete Set: Books One, Two, Three, The Workbook, and Book 4 Becoming the Reader are all available for purchase in the links below.
Bare Bones Lenormand grew from a simple idea:
You do not need to memorize hundreds of card combinations to learn to read Lenormand.
You need to understand the cards.
You need to understand their Core Essence, their Natural Behaviors, and what each card contributes to the story. Then you need to learn how those cards work together.
That is what Bare Bones Lenormand is about.
It is a practical approach to learning Lenormand by understanding the cards themselves rather than trying to memorize endless combinations. When you know the cards, understand how they behave, and learn how they speak to one another, something begins to happen:
The cards begin to tell you a story.
Bare Bones Lenormand — Book One - Learn the Cards - Includes a Full Cut-Out 36 Card Practice Deck
A practical beginner’s guide to the traditional 36-card Petit Lenormand system. Learn the foundational core essence, natural behaviors, and key themes of every card—giving you the intuitive confidence to read without relying on rigid combination lookup charts.
Book One takes you through all 36 Lenormand cards and introduces their Core Essence—the central idea and contribution each card brings to a reading.
Rather than overwhelming you with endless lists of meanings, Book One focuses on understanding what each card naturally contributes and developing a relationship with the cards themselves.
You do not need to memorize everything a card could mean.
You need to understand what the card is at its core.
Once you understand that, its meaning can unfold naturally within a reading.
Best for: Beginners, returning readers, and anyone who wants a clear, intuitive foundation in the 36 Lenormand cards.
Includes a full, Bare Bones Lenormand 36 Card Cut-Out Practice Deck
📖 Paperback and Kindle — Amazon
Purchase Book One on Amazon
Bare Bones Lenormand — Book Two - Reading the Cards
Lenormand Card Combinations, 3x3 Box Spread, Line Readings, Card Interactions.
Knowing the individual cards is only the beginning. Reading them is a whole new story.
Book Two takes the next step: learning how cards work together to create a story.
You will learn how to work with:
- Two-card combinations
- Three-card lines
- Five-card lines
- The 3×3 box spread
- Card contribution
- The center of a line or spread
- Overlapping pairs
- Repeated themes
- The question as the direction of the reading
Move from single-card meanings into fluid story-building. Discover how cards influence, modify, and speak to one another using 2-card pairs, 3-card lines, 5-card spreads, and the iconic 3x3 box layout
The goal is to understand what each card contributes, notice how the cards affect one another, and allow the surrounding cards to build the story.
Because the cards are not isolated meanings.
They are a conversation.
Best for: Readers who know the individual cards and want to become more confident combining them into clear, connected interpretations.
📖 Paperback and Kindle — Amazon
Purchase Book Two on Amazon
Bare Bones Lenormand — Book Three
Putting It All Together: The Grand Tableau- Lenormand Houses, Knighting, Mirroring, Diagonals, Distance & Proximity.
The Grand Tableau is where everything changes.
The definitive guide to reading the 36-card Grand Tableau. Master advanced traditional cartomancy techniques including house placement, mirroring, knighting, diagonal lines, significator tracking, and proximity reading to reveal complex life narratives
All 36 cards are on the table.
The entire Lenormand world is there.
In Book Three, you step into the Grand Tableau and begin exploring the many layers of information available in a full 36-card reading.
You will explore the techniques that help you see more of what the cards are showing you: relationships, patterns, movement, and the additional layers that emerge when all 36 cards work together.
This includes:
- Knighting
- Mirroring
- Diagonals
- Distance and proximity
- Houses
- Card numbering
- Significators
- Timing
- Synthesis
- And the many additional ways an experienced reader can explore the Grand Tableau
- Best for: Readers ready to deepen their Lenormand practice and work with the full 36-card tableau.
- 📖 Paperback and Kindle — Amazon
Paperback recommended for Book Three
Because Book Three teaches the Grand Tableau through full-layout examples and visual references, the paperback is recommended for the easiest study experience. The Kindle edition is also available for readers who prefer a portable digital reference
The Bare Bones Practice Workbook For Books 1,2,3.
Practice, Practice, and Practice Some More
Lenormand Exercises, Study Workbook, Practical Reading Worksheets, Grand Tableau Practice.
You have learned the cards. You have learned how they work together. Now it is time to practice.
The Bare Bones Practice Workbook is designed to accompany Books One, Two, and Three and give you the opportunity to work directly with what you have learned.
This is not another book of card meanings.
It is a place to practice.
Through guided exercises, you will work with natural behaviors, contributions to the Story, card relationships, and the way meaning develops when cards speak together.
The goal is not simply to find the “right answer.”
It is to become familiar enough with the system that you can stop forcing an interpretation and begin listening to what the cards are actually revealing.
The workbook also uses the full 36-card Grand Tableau as a visual teaching environment, allowing you to see smaller structures—such as pairs, lines, timing, and 3×3 spreads—within the larger tableau.
The Workbook is where you learn to listen.
Best for: Anyone using the Bare Bones Lenormand books who wants structured exercises and hands-on practice.
A hands-on study companion packed with practical exercises, spread analysis, and visual Grand Tableau teaching diagrams designed to transition you from theoretical knowledge to fluent reading
📖 Paperback — Amazon
Purchase the Workbook on Amazon
💻 Digital PDF — Payhip
Purchase the Digital PDF Workbook on Payhip
Purchase the Digital PDF Workbook on Etsy
BARE BONES LENORMAND — BOOK FOUR - Becoming the Reader
Advanced Lenormand Interpretation, Intuitive Card Reading, Timing Techniques, Professional Reader Skills.
Book Four is where everything you have learned becomes your own.
The earlier books teach you the cards, show you how they work together, and guide you through the Grand Tableau. Becoming the Reader takes you beyond the rules and into the experience of reading.
You will explore timing, influence, significators, the different jobs a card may be doing, and the deeper distinctions that help a reading become clear. The focus is not on adding more meanings to memorize. It is on recognizing patterns, understanding what matters in the moment, and trusting your own reading voice.
The cards are the same.
The answers become deeper.
You are the reader.
Best for: Readers who understand the foundations of Lenormand and are ready to develop confidence, judgment, and their own reading voice.
Step beyond rules and formulas into real-world reading mastery. Explore nuanced timing techniques, hidden card influences, reader perspective, and the art of delivering clear, accurate, and deeply intuitive readings.
📖 Paperback and Kindle — Amazon
Purchase Book Four on Amazon
Bare Bones Lenormand — The Deck
The imagery you’ve come to know through the Bare Bones Lenormand books is now a deck you can hold in your hands. Created by Jennifer Belanger, Intuitive Practitioner and Spirit Medium, this deck features 36 Lenormand cards with detailed black-and-white artwork, clear card names, and an uncluttered design that lets each symbol stand out.
From your first two-card combination to a full Grand Tableau, Bare Bones invites you to see the connections and discover the story in front of you. Its comfortable bridge size makes it easy to handle and lay out, whether you’re practicing with the books or bringing your own experience to a reading.
Designed as a companion to the Bare Bones Lenormand book series and workbook, the deck can also be enjoyed on its own. Books and workbook are sold separately.
Available soon through Make Playing Cards.
Each deck will be printed to order and shipped directly to you.
Pricing, shipping costs, and estimated delivery times will be available through the purchase link.
The imagery you’ve come to know through the Bare Bones Lenormand books is now a deck you can hold in your hands. Created by Jennifer Belanger, Intuitive Practitioner and Spirit Medium, this deck features 36 Lenormand cards with detailed black-and-white artwork, clear card names, and an uncluttered design that lets each symbol stand out.
From your first two-card combination to a full Grand Tableau, Bare Bones invites you to see the connections and discover the story in front of you. Its comfortable bridge size makes it easy to handle and lay out, whether you’re practicing with the books or bringing your own experience to a reading.
Designed as a companion to the Bare Bones Lenormand book series and workbook, the deck can also be enjoyed on its own. Books and workbook are sold separately.
Available soon through Make Playing Cards.
Each deck will be printed to order and shipped directly to you.
Pricing, shipping costs, and estimated delivery times will be available through the purchase link.
Bare Bones Lenormand deck - The full 36-card companion deck for the Bare Bones learning to read Lenormand series.
Bare Bones Lenormand Books 1–4 & The Practice Workbook by Jennifer Belanger — A complete system for learning, reading, and trusting Lenormand.
Not Sure Where to Begin?
- New to Lenormand? Start with Book One: Learn the Cards. Includes a 36 card cut-out Bare Bones Lenormand Practice Deck
- Ready for Spreads & Combinations? Move to Book Two: Learn the Story.
- Studying the Full 36-Card Tableau? Step up to Book Three: The Grand Tableau.
- Want Practical Exercises? Grab The Bare Bones Practice Workbook (Paperback on Amazon or Instant PDF).
- Deepening Your Practice? Advance to Book Four: Becoming the Reader.