In my experience, the key storylines come through the rows and columns, leaving the diagonals to offer details. Remember that there are infinite card combinations and therefore infinite interpretations! As you gain experience as a card reader, your interpretations may also differ from the basic ones offered in the chart above. In our example above, the Heart mirrored the Rider and the Garden, representing a new love interest at a community gathering. The method is easy. You look at the corners to see the influences around the problem, the middle cards to see what seems important, the first 3 cards as a first message, they give the tone to the reading.

A five-card spread (also sometimes referred to as "a line of five") is one of the more popular ways of gaining insight into straightforward, everyday concerns. It is small enough to be concise and focus on one issue while at the same time large enough to give plenty of detail on the topic. Similar results can happen from the seven-card spread. Columns. The Snake, Cross, and House in the left column suggest that we’ve had to end an involvement with a place or workplace, possibly because of a disappointment. But he Key, Lily, and Clover in the middle column are very positive and confirm there is an opportunity to step up to something better. In the left column, we clearly see positive changes coming through. The Stork, Moon, and Flowers, bring positive changes. The Moon can soften the Stork a little and suggest that the changes are somewhat gradual.

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As usual in most divination practices, the best advice is to practice and experiment, and keep what works for us. Voici quelques exemples piochés au hasard, pour donner une idée du type d’interprétation de ce tableau: Was this truly how Ms. Lenormand read her cards? We can’t say for certain, and some might pour over the card definitions contained in the book and cross-reference them to meanings that Ms. Lenormand herself alluded to in her own writings to find out if they might actually match, but they do not correspond to the symbols that we know today (the Rider, the Clover, the Ship, etc).

Rider is the one bringing the message, the Scythe cuts everything in its way, including our (or in this case the Lady's) emotional balance and the old, well-established way things are (Lily tends to stand for experience and old age) which, in this case seems to be negative, is repeated yet again as the Ring can denote events that happen over and over again due to its cyclic nature. The Grand Tableau is THE big Lenormand reading: but it potentially holds such a lot of information that can seem overwhelming. So how exactly do we go about knighting? I can tell you’re eager to learn, so let’s dive right into things! The next tip I have for you when reading a Tableau-style layout is to look for key positions of the cards.

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To interpret a pair of Lenormand cards, many readers call the first card a person, place, or thing, and the second card becomes a word or phrase that modifies this noun. You can use the chart in “Lenormand Card Meanings” to find appropriate nouns and adjectives. Step 2: Once you find your card, you have to recognize that it is the 3rd card from the left in the first row.

OBSERVATION: Interestingly, the Gentleman (card #28) also mirrors the Dog and the Heart..!! What kind of interesting information did this just find out? We’ll discuss it in more detail in Petit Lenormand Love Relationships – Part 3 (to come!) What is decaying in the querent's life, that they must take care of? What causes the querent stress? Once you establish that the Lady (card #29) is the 3rd card from the left in the first row, you can then say that she mirrors the 3rd card from the right in the same row, the Heart (card #24):

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Notice the general tone by counting how many positive and negative cards are present in the spread. If any card stands out to you or confuses you, knight it with another card or cards to learn more about hidden influences.

Female in Querent’s Life (Female Friend, Partner, Family Member), A Female Querent, Femininity, If the Querent identifies as Female - The Querent/td> After getting the central theme, we can go ahead and start layering on meanings around that central concept. The next thing to do will be reading in pairs, treating each couple of cards as a separate concept or idea. If we use the 1+2, 2+3, 3+4, 4+5 method, we need to make sure that we are not dragging the meaning of each card from the previous pair into the next. And there are other techniques that we can use with the Tableau, like the Near and Far method , and the play between the cards. These are mainly accessory techniques that are used in a Grand Tableau, and we don't have to talk about them here but again in the Courses you might like to delve deeper. All of these new cards were separated into positive, neutral and negative groups, each was assigned with new, more meaningful and accurate interpretations, thus completely changing the traditional method of card reading. Each card represents either a plant, an animal, a person, an everyday object, a natural phenomena or a place. Because of these images, the newly assigned meanings are easy to understand and interpret. With each draw you are presented with an accessible and coherent hint in the form of a familiar figure, which considerably helps decipher the deeper implications of the card. Today’s state of the system In contrary to the cards, which can be interpreted in combination or several together, a house is always interpreted alone, without influence from the neighboring houses.But it's a bit different in a Grand Tableau, where there are so many diagonals and so the diagonals are more about the details. The Lenormand cards provide another way of peeking into the winding palace of one’s own mind - helping you plot out possible courses and actions that you can take. Like the tarot, I personally don’t believe that the divinatory use of the cards are the healthiest way of using them, but I have heard that for that purpose, Lenormand cards have yielded clear messages. Dog (loyalty, dedication) + Book (writing, publishing, studying) could describe how this client is actually in a creative writing / publishing project. The Dog + Book are literally saying: “Stay dedicated to your publishing project.” For example, traditional definitions for the Star are success, guidance and hope. The Start will always mean that, wherever it falls in the grand tableau. But the interpretation will be colored by the house it falls onto. For the sake of simplicity, if we consider the houses values being the same as the cards, the Star in the house of the Sun, for instance, will show a brilliant success; while in the house of Mountain, it will still show a success, but difficult to obtain, or delayed. One application I can see is it tells about what is happening in the various aspects of a querrent’s life. For example a ring falling in the house of the bouquet could mean legal/contractual relationships are doing well. And the mirroring technique could be used to glean more about whether it is a ealtionship/contract; while knighting could be used to infer what’s going on at a deeper level on that account.