Padma
Hey Fire Cat Thanks for your thoughts on the matter!
Yes, context seems very important with the Lennies! What I find especially intriguing in your comment is that you mention it can be bad for one person, but good for another. So the Scythe then can cut both ways, would you say? (depending on the context, of course!)
In regard to the initial question about Sycthe + Dog + Lily, I am now wondering if the Donnaleigh thing is accurate, where the Scythe falling before a good card frees that thing to happen in one's life. But you also mention an equally true thing, that Scythe + Dog can mean the end of a dog's life (as well as the end of a friendship) Here we are with context again, I suppose!
I think that unlike with the tarot, that can veer off in its own mad directions in order to reveal truth, if it so pleases, being irrelevant to the question sometimes, the Lennies seem to be interpreted *only* in context with the exact question posed. But in a Grand Tableau it can become difficult to deduce what is incidentally happening in your life, if you should ask, oh, say, "How will next month be for me?" Because then if Scythe plus Dog (e.g.) came up, or Scythe + Tree, it could indeed be a death? Or it could mean the death of a friendship? Or even Scythe + Snake could be the end of a pesky woman bothering you, or it could also mean having some plumbing work done, or it could mean you give away your pet snake...! How to determine then? I suppose the only thing that helps is the surrounding cards?
Sorry, I haven't been doing the Lenormand that long, and I am trying to understand how it works.
Which then I guess means that ideally, one should have a firm question in mind, and not be vague like "what next week brings" when doing a GT...?
There are certain cards and combos in the Lenormands that can make me cringe! But overall it seems an eerily accurate way to predict. So I also wonder if that is why, as in tarot, we long to find positive associations for scary cards, as well as taking on board the potential negatives. Anyways. Theorizing here
Yes, context seems very important with the Lennies! What I find especially intriguing in your comment is that you mention it can be bad for one person, but good for another. So the Scythe then can cut both ways, would you say? (depending on the context, of course!)
In regard to the initial question about Sycthe + Dog + Lily, I am now wondering if the Donnaleigh thing is accurate, where the Scythe falling before a good card frees that thing to happen in one's life. But you also mention an equally true thing, that Scythe + Dog can mean the end of a dog's life (as well as the end of a friendship) Here we are with context again, I suppose!
I think that unlike with the tarot, that can veer off in its own mad directions in order to reveal truth, if it so pleases, being irrelevant to the question sometimes, the Lennies seem to be interpreted *only* in context with the exact question posed. But in a Grand Tableau it can become difficult to deduce what is incidentally happening in your life, if you should ask, oh, say, "How will next month be for me?" Because then if Scythe plus Dog (e.g.) came up, or Scythe + Tree, it could indeed be a death? Or it could mean the death of a friendship? Or even Scythe + Snake could be the end of a pesky woman bothering you, or it could also mean having some plumbing work done, or it could mean you give away your pet snake...! How to determine then? I suppose the only thing that helps is the surrounding cards?
Sorry, I haven't been doing the Lenormand that long, and I am trying to understand how it works.
Which then I guess means that ideally, one should have a firm question in mind, and not be vague like "what next week brings" when doing a GT...?
There are certain cards and combos in the Lenormands that can make me cringe! But overall it seems an eerily accurate way to predict. So I also wonder if that is why, as in tarot, we long to find positive associations for scary cards, as well as taking on board the potential negatives. Anyways. Theorizing here