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The images of the Lenormand seem pretty universal, one often encounters them in film and literature. I thought it would be nice to collect them in a thread.
Let's start with a no-brainer: the opening credits for Gilligan's Island shows you a Clouds-Ship combination! "The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed!") That's when they get blown off-course - one of the few plausible things you'll see on that show! So you can bring this to a reading - Clouds-Ship could mean danger, or ending up where you didn't intend to go, at least metaphorically.
Alfred Hitchcock, Tales of the City, and the Bouquet
When you see cut flowers in Vertigo or Armistead Maupin's Hitchcock homage and wonderful screenplay of Tales of the City, someone always dies soon after.
The Bouquet is not normally read as a death omen in a reading, but it is important to remember that cut flowers have begun their dying process, they are temporary. This gives your more depth than simply thinking of the Bouquet as a small token of affection.
Jane Eyre Is Lenormand Paydirt
Whitcross is the Roads, Pilot is the Dog, nearly everyting in this novel seems to have a symbolic function. The Moon, especially, seems to recur at important events:
At the age of ten, Jane is in an orphan's institution where half the girls are dying of typhus. Her best friend, Helen Burns, is dying of tuberculosis, but Jane is only aware that she has "consumption" and thinks she will eventually get better. Jane is outside late one evening and the wind blows the Clouds away from the Moon. Jane has a realization that she had better go see Helen that very night, and she is correct. Helen dies later that night.
Jane survives and becomes an adult, the Moon initiates her meeting with Mr. Rochester, shines in her window and wakes her up when the madwoman escapes and knifes someone, and "the room was filled with moonlight" near the end of the book where Jane has her clairaudient experience. The Moon in this book infuses knowledge, it seems to clear mental obscurations. "She shines her light in the darkness". I've found this handy for reading, as well.
Hope everybody adds to this thread!
Let's start with a no-brainer: the opening credits for Gilligan's Island shows you a Clouds-Ship combination! "The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed!") That's when they get blown off-course - one of the few plausible things you'll see on that show! So you can bring this to a reading - Clouds-Ship could mean danger, or ending up where you didn't intend to go, at least metaphorically.
Alfred Hitchcock, Tales of the City, and the Bouquet
When you see cut flowers in Vertigo or Armistead Maupin's Hitchcock homage and wonderful screenplay of Tales of the City, someone always dies soon after.
The Bouquet is not normally read as a death omen in a reading, but it is important to remember that cut flowers have begun their dying process, they are temporary. This gives your more depth than simply thinking of the Bouquet as a small token of affection.
Jane Eyre Is Lenormand Paydirt
Whitcross is the Roads, Pilot is the Dog, nearly everyting in this novel seems to have a symbolic function. The Moon, especially, seems to recur at important events:
At the age of ten, Jane is in an orphan's institution where half the girls are dying of typhus. Her best friend, Helen Burns, is dying of tuberculosis, but Jane is only aware that she has "consumption" and thinks she will eventually get better. Jane is outside late one evening and the wind blows the Clouds away from the Moon. Jane has a realization that she had better go see Helen that very night, and she is correct. Helen dies later that night.
Jane survives and becomes an adult, the Moon initiates her meeting with Mr. Rochester, shines in her window and wakes her up when the madwoman escapes and knifes someone, and "the room was filled with moonlight" near the end of the book where Jane has her clairaudient experience. The Moon in this book infuses knowledge, it seems to clear mental obscurations. "She shines her light in the darkness". I've found this handy for reading, as well.
Hope everybody adds to this thread!
