The Tower
Lenormand
General meaning
☀ Light
institutionsisolationauthoritysolitudebureaucracystructureegodistance
🌑 Shadow: Isolation, coldness, red tape that slows you down, loneliness, emotional distance, rigidity
Lenormand cards aren't read reversed: each card has a light side and a shadow side, and the shadow usually comes out depending on the cards around it.
By topic
- Love
- emotional distancelonelinessformal relationshipwallsneed for spacepride
- Friendship
- distanceformal friendshipisolationpridefew friendsprotecting yourself
- Family
- traditionhierarchyfamily distancerulesinheritanceisolation
- Career
- hierarchylarge organisationsadministrationlofty ambitionsinstitutional stability
- Work
- big companyadministrationhierarchycivil serviceofficerules
- Studies
- universityofficial institutionofficial qualificationscompetitive examsrulesstudying alone
- Money
- banksinstitutionsthe tax officebureaucracyofficial paperworkbig companies
- Pets
- vet clinicofficial registrationmicrochip and papersquarantinesolitary animal
- Health
- hospitalhealthcare systemisolationlonelinesslimitsinstitutional medicine
- Choices
- seeing from abovetaking distancedeciding alonefollowing the rulesseparating
- Creative projects
- publisherinstitutionpaperworkcopyrightworking aloneperspective
- Creativity
- creative isolationworking alonestructureretreatelevated perspective
Classic combinations
- The Tower + The Tree: a hospital or medical practice
- The Tower + The Fish: a salary, bank or company money
- The Tower + The Book: university or official training
- The Tower + The Heart: protecting your heart, setting boundaries in love
- The Tower + The Anchor: a permanent job in a big company
- The Tower + The Child: a new job, starting at the bottom
- The Tower + The Fox: a workplace where you have to watch your step
- The Tower + The Bear: a boss or a person with power
- The Tower + The Stork: a change of job or position
- The Tower + The Dog: a trusted colleague
✨ 3 tips for combining it
- It's an institution: a company, hospital, town hall, university… Example: The Tower + The Tree is a hospital or a medical consultation.
- It's also chosen solitude or setting boundaries. Example: The Tower + The Heart is protecting your heart and not letting just anyone in.
- It speaks of long-lasting things and the long term. Example: The Tower + The Ring is a long contract or a very stable commitment.
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See readingsImages: Das Spiel der Hofnung (J. K. Hechtel, Nuremberg, 1799), the ancestor of the Petit Lenormand. Public domain (Wikimedia Commons, British Museum).
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