The Ship

Lenormand

General meaning

☀ Light

traveldistancetradecrossingimport and exportlongingthe foreign

🌑 Shadow: Distance that cools things, escape, longing that paralyses, trips that get complicated, looking outside for what's missing inside

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: long-distance relationshipa trip as a couplelongingsomeone from abroademotional distance
Friendship: friends far awayfriendships abroadreunion after a triponline contactcooling due to distance
Family: faraway familyfamily tripemigrationreunion after distancerelatives abroad
Career: expansioninternational workmobilityjob transferbusiness tripsoutreach
Work: work abroadlogisticstransportremote workrelocation
Studies: studying abroadexchange programmedistance learningonline coursesexchange
Money: tradeincome from abroadlong-term investmentbuying and sellingtravel expenses
Pets: travelling with your petan animal from another countrypet carrieradoption from afartemporary separation
Health: remote treatmentchange of airgradual recoveryrest by the seareturn to calm
Choices: change of coursegoing or stayinga movea decision involving distancesetting sail for the new
Creative projects: a project that travelsinternational publicationtranslationdistance sellinglong journey
Creativity: new horizonsinfluences from other culturestravel inspirationlong-haul workbroader reach

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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).