Card glossary › Lenormand
General meaning
☀ Light institutions isolation authority solitude bureaucracy structure ego distance
🌑 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 distance loneliness formal relationship walls need for space pride
Friendship distance formal friendship isolation pride few friends protecting yourself
Family tradition hierarchy family distance rules inheritance isolation
Career hierarchy large organisations administration lofty ambitions institutional stability
Work big company administration hierarchy civil service office rules
Studies university official institution official qualifications competitive exams rules studying alone
Money banks institutions the tax office bureaucracy official paperwork big companies
Pets vet clinic official registration microchip and papers quarantine solitary animal
Health hospital healthcare system isolation loneliness limits institutional medicine
Choices seeing from above taking distance deciding alone following the rules separating
Creative projects publisher institution paperwork copyright working alone perspective
Creativity creative isolation working alone structure retreat elevated perspective
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Images: Das Spiel der Hofnung (J. K. Hechtel, Nuremberg, 1799), the ancestor of the Petit Lenormand. Public domain (Wikimedia Commons , British Museum).