Missing Cookware: A Lenormand Lost & Found Reading
AUTHOR’S NOTE: We have mislaid some specialty cookware that I use on the barbecue grill, so I decided to throw my Lenormand lost-and-found spread that applies the location markers of horary astrologer John Frawley to the “house” meanings of Lenormand, with some creative visualization from the images to make it work. This spread uses a 5×5 layout of 25 cards instead of the 36-card GT because I wanted a central “hub” card to represent the querent’s location, from which distance and direction can be determined; thus, I couldn’t stay with the standard GT “house” pattern and had to go with so-called “movable houses.” Also, for the purpose of suggesting nominal direction from the querent to the item’s location, I used horoscopic cardinal and ordinal points rather than magnetic compass points (Top = South; Bottom = North; Left = East; Right = West). This technique can also be used with the larger line spreads but it would only reveal distance (for making “near/far” calls) and not direction; however, it would also drastically limit the number of “house” variables.
First I laid out a random 25-card array of “movable houses” using the large-format Golden Lenormand.
Then I pre-selected a Significator card from the Blue Owl Lenormand and left it in the deck. (In this case I chose the Whip to represent utensils but it could have been any card since it is only a “locator” with no cartomantic meaning.)
Next, I shuffled that deck and dealt cards on top of the “house” array until the Whip appeared. Because it didn’t show up in the first 25 cards pulled, I started again from the beginning until it did.
The Whip landed on the house of the House, implying that the item is “near the front door or at the front of the house.” Since there is no storage area near the front door in the main part of our home, I decided to look in the basement along the wall below the front door, which over time has become a cluttered spot.
The Whip was very close to the “hub” (querent’s location), which I interpreted as being “not far away.” It came up slightly to the South of the “hub,” but the front wall is situated toward the Northwest, so I didn’t place too much emphasis on that assumption since the distance is insignificant. The first card to appear in this house was the Mountain, but the only relevance I can see in that fact is that there is a “mountain” of storage boxes to move to get at the front wall. The meanings of this card in the model are “on a shelf; in a gray room,” both of which describe where I intended to look. Also, although it carries no specific interpretive meaning, the Sun in the “hub” position bodes well for finding the items.
I will update tomorrow with the outcome. If this doesn’t succeed, I will try to narrow it down with a line spread. The following link describes the method and includes a complete list of adapted “house” meanings:
https://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/lenormand-lost-found/
Originally published at http://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com on June 26, 2023.
