That's funny. I read where you read 1 and 32 together then 8 and 25 together, making a diagonal cross.
This the thing, you can read so much where your head is spinning. Ultimately guess always has to be 'do what your own gut tells ya'.. then, (and haven't got near close to this) over time feedback and thousands of reads will be your ultimate answer.
funny the differences. and, yes, I agree, use your own gut to read. When I first began to read the Lennies, I also just read the cards looking at the pictures and seeing what it said to me. I'm a very visual reader anyway. Many people had a fit about how I read, but it seems to work for me.
Since then, I do also know the accepted rules for the meanings w/the Lennies and generally apply them, but I still see other meanings for the cards when I do read them and they are accurate still. So, I am a big use your own instincts in any kind of divination you do--including lenormand!
Okay, to address my little tirade above I just went back and started to further read Anthony Louis' book. Ironically the next section that came up was 'Work Cards' and this is what he mentioned and I quote:
"Most Lenormand teachers advise learning a core set of meanings and sticking to them until your own experience teaches you otherwise. My impression is that the cards most commonly used to signify ‘work’ in a reading are FOX, MOON, and ANCHOR. They all make sense in their own way. My own preference (which may change as I gain more experience) is to use ANCHOR because I view work as providing stability and structure to one’s life. If I were reading for a professional person with a public career, I would view MOON as the “signifier because MOON traditionally refers to high rank and prominence in one’s field. For a day laborer without a steady job, the FOX might make more sense as a card representing the tasks that must be done that day in order to survive.”
Excerpt From: Louis, Anthony. “Lenormand Symbols: Exploring the Origins of the Images on the Cards.” iBooks.
I have never seen the moon as a work card. Never even thought of it! interesting. I'll have to see if it works in the readings I do. I recently did a reading for someone I know re: a new job. I'll go back and see where that moon card is and the cards around it and see if it offers more information... As for the Bear card--I always first see that as a mother type of meaning---protecting something/someone. I see Bear as powerful strength and protective. So, I can see it in work for a position of power or if it were a card describing the type of work--a doctor perhaps, nurse, policeman, for examples as well as daycare provider, teacher, etc. etc.
Now this is all beginning to make much more sense to me. Everything in context. Use one for this another for that. I like that even he has described using one card (Anchor) for work until such time he sees a need to change it. Because as he says, all these cards above make sense, and so to use one you just have to go with what maybe makes more sense above the others, again remaining flexible to change it if need be.
yes, agree.