For several weeks we’ve been learning about the Lenormand Tarot deck the same way I learned Oracle and RWS Tarot cards back in the ’90s: card by card by card. One card daily meditations is an excellent way to learn to read Tarot in larger layouts.
Just as a reminder, Lenormand Tarot card readings do not use or consider reversals. That is significant with today’s cards because:
Latitude.
In RWS deck readings, intuition leads the way when deciding if and how a reversal is significant. Lenormand eliminates that intuitive opportunity, but replaces it with another. It has another way to give you a little latitude to use your intuition.
Today the playing card inset takes the lead on our card, the Heart.
In Lenormand, the playing card inset is what gives us an easy, safe structured way to learn to read with pure intuition. In RWS, you can practice pure intuition when you decide if an how to use a reversal. In Lenormand, you can practice pure intuition when you decide if and how much the playing card inset factors into the card’s message in a given reading. Both scenarios give us a defined safe space to practice intuition that isn’t guided by established card meanings.
You know how multiple choice tests in school always seemed easier than being faced with a blank sheet of paper and being asked to write an essay about something? It’s a bit of the same thing here. Using your intuition to decide between two defined things (reverse vs upright, is the inset a factor or not) is easier than a free form psychic reading without the help of cards or anything.
That isnt’t to say that you should discount the main image when the inset steps up as the stronger energy. They always work together. Think about ballroom dancing: One person leads, but both partners dance. Dancing well together, the two dancers make something wonderful. And so it is with Lenormand images and their playing card insets.
Today’s heart card is just what you expect – love, romance, commitment. Christopher Butler, this deck’s author, puts it with the ring card to mean marriage or committed partnership, fully fitting with the European culture that gave us both Lenormand and visconti-sforza (Marseilles, RWS) based decks.
The Heart card is very analogous to the two of cups.
The Jack is knight energy, hearts connect with cups, so we have some elements of the knight of cups here, too. That brings a more flirty, fickle, but active element to it. To my eye, the active, action piece of it is in the forefront.
Put it all together and we have our advice for today: ACT on the love you feel. Compassion and kindness is love put into action.
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