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The Book

Lenormand

General meaning

☀ Light

🌑 Shadow: Heavy secrets, hidden information, ignorance, unsettling mystery, not knowing everything

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

secretssomething hiddenlearning from each othermutual knowledgeprivate relationshiphonesty still pending

Friendship

confidencesshared secretslearning from each otherlearned friendsdeep conversation

Family

family secretshistorygenealogydocumentstraditionsteaching

Career

trainingspecialisationexpert knowledgeresearchprofessional secretsdocuments

Work

trainingdocumentsconfidential informationresearchtechnical knowledge

Studies

bookslearningexamsresearchsyllabusknowledge

Money

financial informationaccountingdocumentsfinancial traininglearning to managebusiness secrets

Pets

trainingvet informationmedical historylearning to carevaccination record

Health

pending diagnosismedical reportinformationmedical historylearning from your bodyinvestigating

Choices

getting informedresearching before decidingwaiting to knowsecretsknowledge

Creative projects

bookmanuscriptpublicationresearchdocumentationunfinished work

Creativity

writingreadingscriptlearning techniquesresearchmanuscript

Classic combinations

• The Book + The Key: discovering a secret
• The Book + The Birds: secrets being told, gossip
• The Book + The Moon: artistic or intuitive studies
• The Book + The Fish: accounts, bookkeeping, money information
• The Book + The Tree: medical history, health information
• The Book + The Ship: studying abroad
• The Book + The Snake: strategy, knowledge used cleverly
• The Book + The Child: learning something from scratch
• The Book + The Fox: information being hidden
• The Book + The Stars: spiritual or esoteric studies

✨ 3 tips for combining it

1. It's a secret or something you don't know yet. Example: The Book + The Heart is a secret love.
2. It's also studies and knowledge. Example: The Book + The Tower is university or official training.
3. When it comes with The Sun or The Key, the secret comes out. Example: The Book + The Key is discovering something that was hidden.

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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).