A “Lenormand Lost & Found” Missing-Person Reading
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Continuing to follow up on my recent missing-person “cold case,” I ran my Lenormand lost & found spread to see if it tells me anything new. The short answer is “No.” It doesn’t turn over any new ground but it offers some encouragement.
For this reading I chose the “unlucky” Jack of Clubs (Whip) as the “object card” to represent the missing (and presumed dead) teenager. The querent who originally approached me with the inquiry is female, but she is acting on behalf of the boy’s mother, so here I will consider the Lady card to stand for both of them as “the Women.”
The Whip appears in the house of the Letter and, since no “active” cards populate the bottom row, the Whip also mirrors the Letter in the house of the Ship at the top of the layout. The core meaning of the Letter in these situations is “with (or in) the mail,” implying that written tips or other testimony on his whereabouts are still coming in. I just learned that there is a $150,000 (CAD) reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction, answering an earlier question of mine, and the Ship has to do with monetary gain from enterprise. The Gentleman and the Rider between the Whip and the Letter show that there are plenty of opportunistic “bloodhounds” on the trail. In general, the Letter “at a distance” portrays official information, and here it is far from both the “object card” and the “querent card,” suggesting that a break in the case may be identified during the government’s formal investigation. The Tower does not appear in the spread, so the agency involved could be operating “under cover.”
The Whip and the “Women” both knight to the Lilies, reinforcing the suspicion that a family member may have been involved in the disappearance. There are no perpendicular intersections since the cards are in the same “line-of-sight” row, but the two intersect “on the diagonal” at the Crossroads, another affirmation that the search party must follow more than one “road out of town” in order to find the body. I will stick with my free-association take on the image as meaning “in the country,” something I’ve been saying since the very beginning across several different readings.
The “Women” are mirrored by the Snake, suggesting the apparent attempt to mislead them that was mentioned in the very first reading. Their card (Lady) also knights to the Bear (powerful associates — Bear mirrors Gentleman — helping with the investigation); the Rider (a continuing flow of verbal tips) and the Mountain (the uphill battle they are facing). The Gentleman is the “base card” between the Whip and the “Women” but there is no amplifying card on top of it (that ended with arrival of the Whip), possibly pointing to the silent “man who knows something but isn’t talking” from my original analysis of this case. This persistent lack of cooperation still separates the “Women” from the object of their search even though the Lady is gazing toward it; still, the “plot may be thickening.”
The Whip knights to both the Stars and the Scythe, telling me that the young man encountered danger after dark (he was last seen getting out of a cab at his much-older cousin’s house). It knights to the Moon in the house of the Scythe as well, suggesting that his reputation from the “double life” he was leading may have caught up with him in a sinister way. Like the sword of Damocles, the Scythe hangs directly over the heads of the “Women,” cautioning that getting too close to the family member represented by the Lilies could be hazardous for them.
But success isn’t out of the question because the populated positions of the far-right column hold the Bouquet in the house of the Coffin; the Ring in the house of the Stars; and the Key in the house of the Heart. I read this series as “A final offer produces successful closure (perhaps in brokering a “deal”) by faithfully staying on-track and true to the cause,” the upshot of which suggests a breakthrough in getting the reluctant individual to reveal what he knows.
Originally published at http://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com on October 3, 2023.
