The entire reading is the path to the final phrase: your secret wish is...
A swinging from pro and con and back again, hence the last phrase is point-blank. The outcome does not present you with a certain desire or image, but the wish is the desire's and image's source.
We use the Dondorf's Lenormand for our readings.
1. Your secret wish - Tree.
2. I heart it - Fishes.
3. I dislike it - Man.
4. restraint - Book.
5. fulfillment - House.
The Tree is your secret wish. In many ancient cultures are tree cults, which worshipped trees, sacred groves and their inhabitants.
By their shape and growth, trees symbolise the development of man and with their green colour, the vegetative life of nature. The shape of the tree with its roots in the earth, the ascending trunk and the sky aspiring crown is a symbol of the connection between heaven and earth. Fruit-bearing trees are understood as a maternal symbol.
The Fishes show how you like your wish. Fishes denote contents of the unconscious. They represent the unfathomable mental depth. The astrological sign Pisces deals with borders and expanding boundaries.
The emotional life is determined by a longing for breaking through to the other side.
The Fishes like the Tree because the Tree has managed to break through to the other side: his roots deep in the earth, its crown up in the air - heaven and earth unified in this breakthrough. The border-crossing Fishes cannot be on both sides at the same time. They either are here or there. They cannot dissolve the border. This is their dilemma, an everlasting antagonism. That's why the Fishes worship the Tree. The Tree goes outside the envelope. The Tree keeps growing, connecting antagonisms.
The Man is how you dislike your wish. The Man 'thinks' himself anywhere. That way, he may be whereever he wants to be. Without moving a limb, by the sheer use of logic and mind. The Man has a will and he thinks. His cognitive faculty enables him to surpass antagonisms. The Man does not need the Tree. The Man does not change, he does not need to become - he already is fully grown. The Man grows no roots, he can move but he does not need to. He can think himself just anywhere. The Tree is in place, he grows deep roots. The Tree does not think. The Tree exceeds borders by growing.
The Man wants because he thinks, the Fishes wish because they desire.
The Book is your restraint. The Book says: you do not need to become. You need to learn. One becomes through learning, one does not learn through becoming. The Book deals with knowledge and knowhow. The Tree is about wisdom and lore. Knowledge helps you to surpass borders technically. The Tree has a natural power. The Book teaches you, the Tree connects and communicates.
They represent the dilemma of technology and nature.
The House fulfills the wish. It is a treehouse. The Tree is the House.
The house may be understood as feminine and sexual symbol: its space, the cavity, the shelter, the mother of protection, the maternal womb. The interiors describe the inner habitat of the dreamer: does he live in his own house, in his own values, ideas and wishes? Did he set up his life the way it feels right for him? Does he dare to inhabit all areas of his personality? Does he feels in himself "hosted"? Does he accept his own body?
The House gives the impression of a redemptive arrival at a final destination and inner harmony, a harmonious location for the soul.
Your secret wish refers to the exceeding of antagonisms. Your secret wish is that wish and will do match. These antagonists need to be in peaceful coexistance.
Man and Fishes dither, each day is different. But the Tree stays in one place, in the middle of these extremes. This is the Eye of the Tiger. From this the Tree draws its power to live, and grow, and be.
Hope this resonates with you!