The Mountain
Lenormand
General meaning
☀ Light
obstacleblockchallengedelaypatienceeffortlofty goalstability
🌑 Shadow: Obstacles, delays, a block that seems insurmountable, frustration, stubbornness
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 barriercooling offstuck relationshipshared challengedistanceresistance
- Friendship
- drifting apartobstacleinflexible friendcooling offeffort to keep the bond
- Family
- entrenched conflictrigiditydistancestubbornnesschallengesobstacles
- Career
- stagnationceilingbig challengesustained effortdelaysperseverance
- Work
- obstacledelaysdifficult taskstagnationeffortinflexible boss
- Studies
- difficult subjectstagnationdelayeffortdistant goaltough exam
- Money
- blocklarge debtstagnationslow savingfinancial effortobstacle
- Pets
- stubborn animalslow recoveryobstacles in an adoptionhikesstiffnesspatience
- Health
- persistent painstiffnessjointsslow recoverytirednesschronic processes
- Choices
- blockwaitingdelaydifficult decisionobstaclemoving forward step by step
- Creative projects
- delayobstaclelong effortpatienceambitious goalslow progress
- Creativity
- blockdemanding workeffortpatienceambitious goalclimbing step by step
Classic combinations
- The Mountain + The Letter: a delayed reply or paperwork
- The Mountain + The Fish: a financial block
- The Mountain + The Key: overcoming the obstacle
- The Mountain + The Heart: emotional block, distance in love
- The Mountain + The Tree: stalled health, slow recovery
- The Mountain + The Anchor: a stuck situation that won't budge
✨ 3 tips for combining it
- It's an obstacle or a delay: something hard, but climbable. Example: The Mountain + The Letter is paperwork or a reply that's delayed.
- What's next to it tells you what's blocked. Example: The Mountain + The Fish is a financial block that calls for patience.
- If it comes with The Key or The Sun, the obstacle is overcome. Example: The Mountain + The Key is finding a way around the block.
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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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