A 36-card Lenormand illustrated in the iconic style of Pamela Colman Smith — the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot artist. A unique bridge deck for tarot readers crossing into Lenormand.
The Pixie's Astounding Lenormand is a 36-card deck illustrated by Edmund Zebrowski in the iconic style of Pamela Colman Smith — "Pixie" — the artist whose 1909 watercolours gave us the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot. Each Lenormand card is rendered as a Pixie-style scene: the same flat planes of colour, the same medieval costuming, the same soft-edged figures that have defined English-language tarot for over a century. For tarot readers picking up Lenormand, this deck is a uniquely comfortable bridge.
Published by U.S. Games Systems, the deck is a tribute as much as a working tool — a love letter from one cartomancy tradition to another, painted by an artist who clearly studied Smith's brushwork carefully.
The cards look exactly like Pamela Colman Smith might have painted them if she had been commissioned for a Lenormand instead of a tarot. The Rider rides a horse straight out of the Knight of Wands. The Bouquet borrows from the Six of Cups. The Tower is recognisably a cousin of the Tower of tarot's Major Arcana, even though the Lenormand meaning is institutional rather than catastrophic. The visual quotation runs deep without being heavy-handed.
Colour palette and line weight are kept faithful to Smith's originals, which means the deck feels period-correct and quietly authoritative.
The Pixie's Astounding is the deck most often recommended to tarot readers crossing into Lenormand. The visual continuity makes the conceptual switch (cards-as-words rather than cards-as-paragraphs) easier to absorb — you're learning a new system in a familiar visual language. Long-time Lenormand traditionalists may find it too tarot-flavoured, but for the audience it's aimed at, the design choice is exactly right.
Standard 36 cards in their traditional numbering and playing-card associations — no extras, no alternative cards, no modern additions. The system is pure Petit Lenormand; only the artwork is a homage.
Published and stocked by U.S. Games Systems, widely available through metaphysical retailers and online tarot shops. A guidebook is included.