Rain in the Hills: Lenormand Dailies

Drawing daily cards (or runes, etc.) is a common practice for getting to know a deck or a divinatory system. You pull a card or two in the morning or in the evening and consider how its influences speak to you on a given day. It's a practice I love, and in particular I think it's great for Lenormand learners as a way to understand card combinations. But one important thing to understand about daily draws is that the meanings are often toned down from the full energy of that given card (or two). (In other words, don't let negative cards prevent you from leaving the house!). Another thing to consider is that these dailies can often manifest in your day in various ways, so interpret your combinations in as many different manners as possible, and see what happens!

In early July I was in the northern lands of Michigan, heading even further north toward the Straits of Mackinac. That morning I drew a daily line of three Lenormand cards. I can't remember what the first in the line was, but the latter two were Mountain - Clouds. Neither of them are particularly positive cards, and Clouds are considered the most negative card in the deck! However it was a daily draw, so it didn't concern me too much… Lenormand dailies can often be literal. Most of our ride was going to be on relatively flat land, but toward the end of our journey I knew we'd be entering into some hilly terrain. I decided that Mountain - Clouds likely referred to the possibility that we would encounter rain at that point in our trip. I left it at that, we packed up, and departed.

Our mountain range made of clouds/O. Destrades

Most of the ride was bright and sunny, so I started to think that my rain forecast might be a bit off. However for nearly our entire voyage, a low line of clouds accompanied us on the horizon. It was pretty magnificent, and at some point one of my daughters exclaimed: "Those clouds look like mountains!" Ah hah! She was completely right. Those clouds looked exactly like snow-covered mountains in the distance. There were my Mountain - Clouds!

We continued our drive, and I noticed that as we reached the last thirty minutes of our trip, those clouds started to stretch out, and reach over us. As we rose and descended, and wove through the newly developing northern hills, the sun disappeared and the rain started to fall.

There were my Mountain - Clouds…again!

Lenormand Daily Draws

I think this blog title is kind of boring but I'm not feeling particularly creative right now!

As I work with Lenormand, I've been rather "religiously" pulling a series of three cards for my daily draw, and have very much been enjoying how accurate they end up being, and how they help me integrate not only card meanings, but subtle relationships between cards as well.

The other day I pulled something like Moon - Storks - Mountain (I say "something like" because I do keep a journal but don't have access to it at this moment!)

I was very focused on the Mountain, and wondered quite a bit what this obstacle or barrier could be???

Daily draws in Lenormand, as with Tarot, tend to be either a mundane, or greatly scaled down, version of the traditional meaning. So every once in a while during the day I'd think about this Mountain, and about how really I'd had such a great day - what could it possible be referring to??

Gilded Reverie Lenormand - Ciro Marchetti
US Games

So in the late afternoon I returned home from an outing with my youngest daughter, and my newly printed business cards had arrived. I was so excited! I took one out, looked it over, and it was precisely what I had ordered - I was happy! A little while later I was examining them again, and realized that I had entirely forgotten to put my email address on the cards! Fortunately I did have my website and phone number listed, but I was so upset with myself for having left off this obvious, important detail, and started to worry that I should just order new ones (I've calmed down since then and will be using them after all!).

Later in the night I was pondering my daily draw again and suddenly it all clicked into place!

"An obstacle to positive changes/developments with work."

Is the lack of email address a major dilemma?  No. Did it create an issue that felt like a momentary downturn in my exciting onward movement with my business?  Definitely.

So I'm very much enjoying using these daily draws as a simple but effective regular practice with Lenormand.