Today’s combination is inspired by a discussion regarding the possibility of Lenormand cards taking on the meaning of a person; particularly the cards that bear an inset face card, such as House which is the King of Hearts.
Book + House
Book is a secret, education or documents (the sense of “bookkeeping”). House is the home, or maybe family life. Combined, I would say this is a secret about the family.
House + Book
This could be a mortgage, especially the mortgage paperwork and records. It could also be records about a house.
One other way to look at this is to keep in mind that this House is inset with the King of Hearts, and therefore, could be a man. If the Book were interpreted as a secret, then this could be a secret about a man, or a man with a secret. It would make sense to me that the man is a family member, or fits the description “family man” since this is the House, although I don’t think there is any such guarantee. A lot of Lenormand interpretation requires a decent dose of intuition to decode contextual clues. I don’t know how likely this is in an actual reading, but if you see a face card then you might keep it in the back of your mind, in case the normal card meaning doesn’t make sense.
If you have any thoughts on this, or related card readings that you’d like to share, then please leave a comment.
Jase on Cards 
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September 20, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Spiritsong
Hi Jason 🙂
I started off not paying too much attention to the playing card inserts, but they definitely have wanted to be included in my perusing- especially court cards.
When I get the Fish card (which has the King of Diamonds inserted) I’d say that 60-70% of the time it’s really about the Fish….but the other percentage is referring to a man I know who deals with financial trading!
So I have started to take more of a look at the inserts if the card doesn’t seem to fit otherwise.
-ps- like your pictures in the post after this one 🙂 would have liked seeing your cards as well! I have a deck of playing cards that I wrote keywords all over too.
You’ve reminded me that I have that Cicely Kent book too…I’m going to have to dig that out now! lol
Spirity
September 20, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Jason
Hi Spirity,
Thanks for sharing your experience with the insets and the Fish card in particular. What you describe makes sense.
I’m glad you like the photos as well. 🙂 The cards aren’t all that exciting, especially with the rush job I did on adding the Lenormand (I was pressed for time). But maybe I’ll post them, or a future deck with neater writing on it. I like the fact that I don’t feel bad writing on playing cards, as I would if it were a tarot deck, which typically costs much more to replace!
And I love the Cicely Kent book. I want to write about it, but after I’ve worked with it longer.
September 17, 2014 at 7:07 pm
AlyZen Moonshadow
Appreciate the little lesson, Jase, thank you! Keep writing, please!