Rider +Heart; love coming your way!

It was just a special day with all the 1's in it and I decided to do a special reading for that day.I'm just quoting the reading from my reading journal just to share the experience and how it came true for me!

My question was: What's the message of 11-11-11?
Key - Moon - Storks - Rider - Heart

This looked a very positive message. The key is an affirmative of a successful change where love comes my way. Storks can also be a woman here, and there are 4/5 cards from the Hearts suit , with the card 24-Heart present, I knew it brought a significant message my way.

After one month and 2 days of this reading, my boyfriend came in my life and we clicked instantly. Just after one month and seven days I was head over heels in love. Therefore, when Rider+Heart combo appears for you with other positive cards, you will know something is in the air !

Adding them together: 17-Storks, which clearly tells there was a change on way. I use to get 17-Storks a lot whenever I asked about my love life so watch for it. Storks always bring you something nicer and cool.

Week 4; January 23- January 29

Scythe - Rider - Lilies - Key - Man - Coffin - Tree

The Key in middle tells me something fated is going to happen, but it will be something good. Key+Man tells me a solution will come from a man, who is stressed (Coffin) and older (Lilies).  Key + Lilies tells me its some wiser and peaceful balancing solution.

Update: Yes whatever happened this week was meant to happen. The things I was nervous about last week were all resolved and the resolution mainly came from my Boyfriend, who is often closer to Lilies (He is wiser and more mature than me). He has been pretty much stressed lately (Coffin).

First half: Scythe - Rider - Lilies
It looks like an unexpected news from a older man. Lilies has often times represented my boyfriend. With Rider its can be him and I might get an unexpected new from him.Scythe+Rider and Rider+Coffin both indicate a negative news or a man in danger.

During the first half of the week we had some arguments and we cancelled our date.

Second half:
Man - Coffin - Tree

This looks like someone is falling ill. Its a bad sign since I'm to meet my boyfriend next week and if its him falling ill its really really bad.
I hope he is fine forever

He did not fell ill, but he did get lost, and got upset over many things. He was so depressed he said he wanted to die. This was all temporary and he was feeling fine after a day.

Adding them: 115 = 25-Ring. It looks like there is a strong commitment-oriented week I have on hand. I'm having my exams coming up next week and this is totally appropriate.

It was not about exams, it was about my connection with him which just got stronger for us. 

Trigger Layout by Madam SeaQueen (Updated)

Declaration: This Spread originally belongs to Madam Seaqueen. You can see the positions here and an example done by herself here.


I love trying new spreads. Here I am with something new to try my hands on. I would like to do this for this love relationship I have with this man and see what comes up.

I initially had been using 25-RING as a key card for this relationship since we both are so committed towards each other, but later I realized that 25-RING is more of a binding, while what we feel for each other is a strong affection, but nothing proper or legal, for that matter, exists between us. Therefore, for this spread I will use 24-HEART to get accurate results. If the 25-RING appears nearby that will give me better answer.

Past: Key - Clouds - Roads
There had been some destined obstacles and uncertainities. clouds looks like him, because he was not sure what he wanted to do. Eventually we had a choice whether or not to continue it. the Key card tells me whatever it is, it was meant to happen. there are uncertainities, but we always had a choice and we chose what we wanted.

Present: Ship - Heart - Lady
So here I am having a lovely journey, I'm in love and it sets me free. I feel so good. There are some confusions and some longing because he is physically away, but the idea itself is very tempting. The idea of being in love. With Roads closer to me, it shows that I could have taken a different path, but I'm being indecisive or that I'm looking for my options, specially the way Lady is facing the Roads , like she is trying to find a way she wants to go on.

Immediate Future: Cross- Scythe - Moon
This looks like there is hand of fate at work here. This will bring some sudden jolt of reality. The way we are being illusionary in the moon-lit romantic dream-like life, this illusion will end suddenly. It will be painful, but at the same time its meant to happen.There will be a swinging mood of us both which is because of the cross we have to bear.

Soon: Lilies- Bear - Fish
This relationship will mature. We will get past the phase where things are dream-like but in the end this love will only grow, peacefully. Lilies have often represented him. Lilies can be an affair as well. The Bear and Fish cards are money-related cards and they represent increase or growth. There will be peace, growth, strength and emotional abundance in this relationship.However, at the same time, these can be two men as well.

The Trigger Row: Clouds - Heart - Scythe - Bear
There has been confusion in the past, we are not sure what to do, but in near future, we will make a sudden decision, a decision that will give this relationship more strength with BEAR in the end.

Update: I don't know how I forgot to update this one. The reading was right, specially with the scythe. This reading was done on 20th Jan and soon after that, like 20 days after this, we broke up. It was painful (Cross) but suddenly (Scythe) things became clear (Scythe-Moon). I did get lot of power and strength (Bear) from this relationship though. It was like I became me again. 
The Trigger row worked like a charm, we started as unsure (Clouds), we broke up(Scythe) and we grew stronger (Bear) from the experience.

Small Lenormand Combinations: Roads + Child

I have been working on card combinations for a while and I will be updating a few which provided me with great information:

Here is the first one. This was my draw for 13 December when my boy friend asked for my number and rang me for first time.

Roads + Child.

22- Roads (Crossroad) = escape, alternative, another option, two, a choice, summing something up, indecision, a woman (Queen of Diamond) who is dependable and diligent.

If you carefully look at the Crossroads Card in this deck, you can see this is a point where two roads are converging and then dividing again into two paths. Therefore, it can be either coming to a conclusion after a decision has been made, or facing a choice.

13- Child : A young girl, something in budding, a matter starting fresh, something that has potential for growth, new, Youth (male or female).

When I looked this combination, I knew something new is going to happen, It can be a new path after I have travelled and made a decision what I want to do and now I will start a new journey. Child has never really represented me, therefore, I could not say it was me, but if the reader is really young, or immature, it can be representing him/her as well. This combination tells us that there is a new way to be adapted. You have to either stop here, keep yourself in dilemma, keep evaluating whether the choice you made in past was right or wrong, or you can simply move on to the new path and see what it brings for you.

I wanted to share this combination because this has brought me the love of my life and if I had held back or be indecisive about whether I should talk to him or not (we have an unconventional story, ahem) then I would be missing the best part of my life.

Happy Learning!

Week 3: January 15-21

Weekly Draw:

Sun + Ring + Snake + Tower + Anchor + Clover + Garden

This looks like the relationship of this independent and determined woman is going to shine while she has all the luck on her side.

The Snake card as a Lady was standing out to me through and through.

Sun is my lucky-charm card. Whenever it appears for me, I know something good is going to happen.
Even though this is my second week having Tower card in centre, yet this time its surrounded by all the positive cards,  it does not look like spreading any negativity.

With the Tower card, I do believe that Snake card was representing me. The Tower card gave me enough strength to fight things when they came!


First Half:
Sun + Ring + Snake
A complicated relationship is making me happy.
Despite the complications, there is a continuous happiness surrounding the Ring.Sun is my positive card.

When the weak started me and my boyfriend had almost broke up the night before. But right after 12hours we were talking to each other again. Besides all the problem, troubles, complications, We love each other and I just cannot emphasize the fact that its been the happiest relationship of my life.
Second half:
Anchor + Clover + Garden
This looks like I will have some luck/success with socialising or it can just be my facebook.

We finalized our date and are looking forward to it. other than that it was a happy week.

Overall: Counting the numbers and adding: 139 = 49 = 13-Child. With two Aces and Child as the combined number Card, I think this week is important in terms of something important which is long term.
However there is a dominating suit of Spades which pose challenges.

The new beginning could have been in the way that I started being rational, after a long time. I started taking care of myself and I like it because it gives me a new positive energy.

When the Sun Shines!

31-Sun is my most favourite card in the deck because it makes me happy. Like there is a hope that nothing can darken things in presence of this card. Sometimes we get very negative cards surrounding this card, yet this card usually makes us happier than we initially thought we would be given the negativity surrounding it.

I got this card with my second most feared card, Roads, because Roads usually puts you in a dilemma and I hate being there. I hate the feeling of not knowing what I should do!

My draw for the day was Sun + Roads. It looks like I will be happy about making a decision. It can be multiple success as well, but the Roads were still showing me what I was scared of , parting ways.
I drew a clarifier, what this could be about, and got Child. This reminded me of the day I drew Roads + Child combo and the very day I met my boyfriend. Roads+Child means a new alternative, a new path starts, you have the choice whether or not you want to take it, but you can expect a new choice or option.

These two cards appearing together again, along with Sun made me doubt the fact that there night be a new beginning coming today.That is what happened. It was a day when I had a wonderful day full of new stuff, I got some family pictures done, got a new hair cut, and got a text message from my friend which said he could not do it any more, he wanted to end our friendship.

Well, that should have made me sad, but it did not hurt that bad as it would have IF the Sun card had not been there. This has been the effect of Sun card on my day that I was so optimistic, happy and energetic about everything, that I was sure that none of the decisions I make today can go wrong. They did not!

Number of cards and time they take to manifest

I have experienced almost all spreads for Lenormand oracle readings and they have worked pretty well for me.
Here in this post I will explain the number of cards I drew for some reading and how long it took for manifesting:

Note: If you click on the number of cards, you will see an example reading as in how to use this number for that specific time frame.

1-3 cards = 1-3 days. I do daily draw of 2 cards and a clarifier IF I need one!

5-cards = for general question, questions which will be manifesting in a week, or within the same day, or questions which are not based on timing, sort of NOW kind of questions.

7- Cards = A week. they have worked perfectly for me for about longer than 10 weeks now.

9-cards = I use a Line of Nine for specific question, the 3x3 formation kind-of doesn't work for me. The results usually manifest in a month.

13 cards = This spread is given in Iris Treppner's course and it is said it covers a period of 3 months and one should wait for the predicted events to occur before laying the cards again. For me the cards in future position appeared for one reading , within 15 days.

36 Cards = They have worked well for answering different aspects of a situation, from a period of 1 month to a period of 4 months. I haven't done one for 6 months but I sure have done one for the year 2012, so if it works well in that domain, I will post it here.

These are different time frames with number of cards which I have experienced so far!

How I read my daily draw

I started learning this deck with daily draws. First I started pulling out 3 cards, reading them as 1+2, 2+3, 1+3 and getting information. Later on, being tempted by the idea of learning more about rest of the cards (three not being enough) , I started pulling out 5 cards for one day. This gets hectic after a while because I thought I was assigning my meanings to the cards, according to whatever happened that day, instead of learning about the true meanings of each card which should manifest in my day. That was when I started pulling out 7 cards for each week. It is also said in Iris Treppner's course that 1-3 cards take usually 1-3 days for manifesting. Therefore, using 1-2 cards for each day makes sense. Besides I like working out on their combinations, like how Dog +Heart is different from Heart + Dog.

Therefore, I started taking out 2 cards, occasionally a third clarifying card since December 13,2011 and so far it has worked really well for me. On the other hand 7-cards weekly draw works well as for the whole week too.

Here is how I do it:
Before going bed every night, I take out my journal, enter the date for next day, then I shuffle the cards clearing my mind. After that I spread the cards in a half-circle in front of me and close my eyes. From then on, I follow my guts to pull out two cards.

I turn the cards over and try to make a combo out of the two cards.
 Example:

Dog + Lilies

This is a friend/a loyal lover, who is older and wiser. I would call it lover because Lilies can be an affair/a lover too, a with Dog it is someone who is loyal to me and protective about me.

I decided to pull out a clarifier, because that would explain: what about him?

Garden:
So either I'm meeting him, or we will discuss something on-line (because Garden has often represented social networking sites for me) or its something to do with people around us.

Next day, I ended up figuring out that my lover (Lilies) wanted a friendly opinion (Dog +Lilies) about how he should handle people he deals with. He was pretty much upset because of how people spread wrong words about him and when I was advising him on how not to be bothered, he said I was his best friend and the way he can talk to me he has never talked to anyone closer before.

So this is how you can pull out two cards, for your day and then take out clarifier as many as you want, but the lesser the better specially if you are a  newbie like me!

January 2012 Week 2

January 8 - January 14

Clouds - Dog - Man - Tower - Mice - Cross - Rider

Tower in the centre is telling me this is a lonely week. I might be alone for the most of the time. Man -Tower tells me its a man feeling left out. The Mice on the other hand is eating up at the Tower, reducing the tension , yet stressing him out because he's in reflection.

First Half:
Clouds - Dog - Man
Its a friend,who is not sure what he is doing. This can also be two men, father and son, having some friendly time together. Even in reflection, there is lots of stress throughout for a man, or two men.
Update: He really was unsure. He was unsure because he did not know what he was doing with becoming friends with me was acceptable (Tower) or not. That is why he was keeping himself away from me.


Second half:
Mice - Cross - Rider
A repeated loss, a bad news, a fateful news. Rider has often represented a man as well, looks like this week is full of stress and there is someone very stressed, a bad news is coming, for second time.

Update: Lets call it a bad week. It was actually full of the time when you suddenly realize things are not right. The feeling of repetition arrived twice when I realized that I was trying to push myself back to the place where I originally had started my journey from.The last day of the week was characterized by me going out and finally having some fun!

The spades are challenging right in the middle, while suit of Hearts and Clubs is present in equal number.
Adding all numbers: 131 = 41 = 5 = Tree, delays, growth, ripening, illness.
Emotional challenges would be a better description. The Tree was keeping me down and depressed. Besides I started exercise, diet and medicine, just trying to take more care of myself health-wise.

Jan 1- Jan 7, 2011 Weekly Draw

Weekly Draw for the new year!

House - Ship - Anchor - Dog - Heart - Tree - Scythe

With Dog in centre, this is a loyalty and friends oriented week. The Dog + Heart is my "lover friend" combo. He is someone who has been my friend for long time with (Dog + Anchor).

He's actually the love of my life, what is in my life if I'm not thinking about him constantly!

First Half:
House - Ship - Anchor
In family or in personal space, I'm moving towards stability. This journey is something I have been waiting for a long time (Ship - Tree) and I'd love the stability (Anchor - Heart). I guess its referring to emotional stability.

At my home, things got little aggressive, because of Scythe in reflection. I have moved towards some pessimism in first half of the week. Emotionally it was a stable week.

Second Half:
Heart - Tree - Scythe

It looks like some long term and stable love (Heart-Tree; Heart-Anchor) will get out of danger and grow immensely (Tree-Scythe).

Can't really by-pass the danger, its always there and its worth it. I love him and he loves me too and thats more than enough for both of us.

Adding all cards: 99 - 18- Dog. wow! This is actually a week focused on friend/lover or loyalty in general.
The dominant suit is of Hearts yet again, (4/7 cards) so this is also a week full of emotions.There are two Tens of Spades and Hearts, which suggest a change of some kind. lets see how it manifests.

It was through and through about him, the centre of my world! The only change that came in this week is my more intense love for him. I'm sure even if there were other things in the spread or the week, I won't notice a thing except the hearts.

Happy New Year everyone!