3 Quick & Easy Ways To Read 3-Card Spreads

Lenormand 3-Card Spreads are one of the most basic readings you can do.  Not only  that, they form a part of bigger layouts such as the 9-Card Spread and the Grand Tableau. That being the case, it makes sense to really get to grips with reading them in the easiest, quickest ways possible if you’re going to progress in your Lenormand reading.

What I’m talking about here is SPEED— learning to read the three cards in a way that you can most quickly make a sentence out of it, at a glance.

I know lots of my readers do have difficulty with this compared to card combinations, so here are the THREE easiest, quick and dirty ways you can read a line of 3 cards together in a way that makes a sentence.

1. Individually, in a chain: Card 1, Card 2, Card 3

So for this method, you don’t have to use combinations at all. What you DO need is to know the basic meanings of each card which you string into a simple sentence, one word after the other. Let’s take a look at an example.

Garden—Letter—Storks

Public, Shared—News—Change, New Start

Quick Reading Method:

Card 1 then Card 2 then Card 3

So: Public, Shared +News +Change,New Start

Sentence: Sharing publicly the news of a change or new start

 

2. Cards 1 & 3 around Card 2 (personally, I find this the quickest)

This one does use card combinations. In this method you take the centre card as the core of the reading, and then read the outer cards together as a combination, mirrored around it.

Example:

Centre Card = House = Home/Family

Child = Child/Young Person.       Whip= Arguments/Argumentative

Quick Reading Method:

Cards 1 (Noun)+ 3 (Adjective) combined around Card 2

So: A child + who’s argumentative + around the home, in the family

Sentence: An argumentative child at home or in the family

 

3. Cards 1&2 combined then 2&3 combined

This reads the combined cards in a chain. Here you ONLY read the cards in combination. Here’s an example:

Anchor + Dog = supported or loyal stability.  Dog+Tower = high-powered or official friend

Quick Reading Method:

Cards 1 (Noun)+ 2 (About that noun) then Cards 2(Noun) +3 (About that noun)

So: Stability, certainty + of a friendship or support then a friend + who is high-up or official

Sentence: Friendship stability from a high powered friend or friend in a high place

Can’t I Join Them All Together?

Of course you can although you’ll often find you don’t need to.  You can use all three methods mixed together for the same three cards. They’ll pretty much say the same thing but sometimes with slight nuances. Looking at the same three sets of cards, and using all three methods you get, for instance

Garden—Letter—Storks

Method 1:   Sharing publicly the news of a change or new start

Method 2:   A new start socially shared by letter

Method 3: An announcement made (i.e. news shared) with news of a new beginning

 

Child—House—Whip

Method 1:   A child at home (or in the family) arguing

Method 2:  An argumentative child at home or in the family

Method 3: A child  in the family causing arguments at home

 

Anchor—Dog—Tower

Method 1:   Stability from a friend or friendship that is official or higher up

Method 2:  High-level stability around a friendship

Method 3: Friendship stability from a high powered friend or friend in a high place

 

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