The Crossroads

Lenormand

General meaning

☀ Light

choicetwo optionsforkdecisionalternativesdilemmadirection

🌑 Shadow: Indecision, paths parting ways, getting lost among options, separation, paralysing doubts

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: dilemmatwo peoplechoosing a pathcrossroads in the relationshipindecision
Friendship: choosing friendshipscrossroadssplitting your timedrifting apart or notdecisions
Family: family decisionsdilemmassharing timedifferent pathsdirections that part
Career: career forkofferschange of directionspecialisationchoosing a path
Work: offerschange of pathtwo optionswork decisionfork
Studies: choosing a degreeelectivesspecialisationacademic decisiontwo options
Money: choosing between optionstwo sources of incomefinancial decisiondiversifyingalternatives
Pets: choosing a petchoosing a vetcare alternativestwo animalsdeciding on an adoption
Health: choosing a treatmentsecond opinionoptionsmedical decisionchanging approach
Choices: fork in the roaddecidingweighing updilemmawhich way to gono going back
Creative projects: choosing a formatdirectionversionspublishing routealternativesapproach
Creativity: trying pathsstylesdeciding the approachexploring alternativesversions

Classic combinations

The Crossroads + The Tower: choosing between two jobs
The Crossroads + The Heart: a divided heart, hesitating between two people
The Crossroads + The Ship: several travel or destination options
The Crossroads + The Stars: a clear decision, you know which path to take
The Crossroads + The Coffin: separation, everyone going their own way
The Crossroads + The Snake: a path full of detours, better to go slowly

✨ 3 tips for combining it

It's a decision with several options. Example: The Crossroads + The Tower is choosing between two jobs.
What comes after the crossroads gives you a hint about which option suits you. Example: The Crossroads + The Clover: pick the option that makes you feel lighter.
In love it can be separating or hesitating between two people. Example: The Crossroads + The Heart is a divided heart.

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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).