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The Coffin

Lenormand

General meaning

☀ Light

🌑 Shadow: An ending that's hard to accept, block, lingering sadness, exhaustion, something refusing to die

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

end of a stagerelationship on pausecooling offemotional griefletting gorebirth

Friendship

a friendship endingdistanceisolationdetachmentcutting contact

Family

griefend of a family stageisolationinheritanceseparation

Career

change of stageprofessional closurecareer breakend of a positionreinvention

Work

end of contractproject closureunemploymentpauserestructuringretirement

Studies

end of a stagedropping outpauseend of the school yeartirednessgraduation

Money

end of an incomestagnationclosing accountsfinancial standstillsettling up

Pets

farewellold agetired animalneed for restgrief

Health

exhaustionneed for restconvalescencelow energydeep rest

Choices

closing doorsletting godeciding to endwaiting without actingnot the time to move forward

Creative projects

a project closingpauseshelvingfinishingcompleted cycle

Creativity

end of a workcreative pauserestclosing a cycleletting an idea gorenewal

Classic combinations

• The Coffin + The Child: an ending that leads to a beginning
• The Coffin + The Ring: the end of a relationship or commitment
• The Coffin + The Tree: exhaustion, need for rest
• The Coffin + The Fish: financial losses or closing an income source
• The Coffin + The Sun: being reborn after a bad time
• The Coffin + The Rider: sad news or something ending
• The Coffin + The Crossroads: separation, everyone going their own way

✨ 3 tips for combining it

1. It's an ending, but also a closure that makes room for you. Example: The Coffin + The Clover is ending something that weighed on you and feeling relief.
2. In health it asks for rest and self-care, without panicking ahead of time. Example: The Coffin + The Tree is built-up tiredness asking you to stop.
3. What comes after it tells you what's born after the ending. Example: The Coffin + The Child is a closure that leads to a fresh start.

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Remember cards speak of energies and tendencies, not a fixed destiny 💕

Images: Das Spiel der Hofnung (J. K. Hechtel, Nuremberg, 1799), the ancestor of the Petit Lenormand. Public domain (Wikimedia Commons, British Museum).