Ah, the Lenormand Card Combinations.
As you’ll know, most of the time with Lenormand readings, you aren’t just reading cards individually. You’re reading Lenormand card combinations – the cards in pairs – in order to tell a story. To complicate matters, however, each card combination can have multiple meanings. I know when I first started reading Lenormand cards myself it was the card combinations that I felt least confident about, and I was forever searching through lists to check and try to remember them all. I also know how many of you head straight for my card combination lists when you visit Lozzy’s Lenormand. It’s great that you do, but wouldn’t you like to gain confidence in your own abilities and take it a step further?
Read on, and I’ll let you into the secret!
The #1 Secret To Reading Lenormand Card Combinations
The single best method I’ve learned for interpreting two Lenormand cards together is to use the first card as the noun – the thing, place or person – and the second as the adjective describing it to make a new phrase. For example, if you combine the following cards:
Ring + Sun
Ring = relationship; marriage; agreement; contract; payment = NOUN
Sun = success; happiness = NOUN; successful, happy = ADJECTIVE
Interpretations will depend on the context of the whole reading, so bear that in mind, but possible interpretations, depending on the context, would be:
Ring + Sun = happy relationship; successful marriage; successful contract etc
The meanings or emphasis will often change depending on which way round the cards appear. Sometimes it’s quite nuanced, but bear it in mind when you’re reading the cards. For example:
Sun + Ring (as opposed to Ring + Sun)
Sun = NOUN = success, happiness
Ring = ADJECTIVE = contracted; contractual; connected; obligated; relationship-related
Yes, this could still mean “relationship success, contract success.” But it could also mean that the success or happiness is contracted, or even obligated. So always check the surrounding cards for the context and nuance.
I found a fantastic video a while back from Donnaleigh, which demonstrates this really well. If you are familiar with the meanings of the cards, the exercise she suggests is a great one to try, especially if you’re trying to immerse yourself and become more independent with your readings. (and if you aren’t, check out my quiz below!)
Remember – the first card is the noun, the “what or who”, and the second the adjective, the description.
Want To Test Your Lenormand Card Knowledge? Try My Quiz!
Now, in order to be able to combine the cards as above, you need to be sure you know the meanings of the cards individually.
You can test your knowledge of all the card meanings in the quizzes below!
Lenormand Card Combinations Quiz
Meanwhile, if you are sick of looking up Lenormand meanings online all the time – why not sign up and grab my FREE downloadable 92-page E-Book with all the Lenormand Card Meanings, all 36 sets of Card Combination lists PLUS some great practice exercises to test your knowledge and understanding!
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For guidance on different card layouts, do take a look at my Card Layouts page.
Want to see examples of the cards in action? Take a look at my Lozzy’s Lenormands Readings page, and see if your interpretations of the readings are the same as mine!
Hi, can you help me to understand how read 3 cards together? I know when there’re 2 cards, the 1th is a noun and the 2nd is the adjective,so for example if there are mountain/ clouds/ child/ it’s right to read blockages, confusion (21+6) and an uncertain beginning(6+13)
Thank u so much for your help! 🙂
Hi Marika,
No problem, happy to help. Say you have cards 1,2 and 3 in a line. You’d read them first individually (Card 1, Card 2, Card 3) and then all of them in pairs: Cards 1+2, Cards 2+3, then Cards 1+3. The first word in the pair is the main thing; the second describes it.
So you have Mountain, Clouds, Child. That’d be: Blockage, Confusion, Young Person/Beginner
Then:
Cards 1+2: Unclear or hidden blockage (or a blockage caused by uncertainty)
Cards 2+3: Beginner or young person’s uncertainty
Cards 1+3: Beginner or young person’s blockage
Hope that helps!
This is a great secret! I’ve read that another way of reading 3 cards is to read them as noun/subject, verb, and adverb/or adjective. What do you think of that alternative?
Yes, you can definitely do that, and it’s a fun way of doing it, although some cards are more difficult to ‘verb’ than others. Also, sometimes you might miss a vital piece of information. I still prefer to focus on reading card pairs and then putting them together, as generally, I find that a more useful technique in bigger readings.
Thank u! I’m reading now your answer 🙂
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Hi Lozzy, just to understand what means the moon as last card.
3 cards: Tree (5)- Book (26)-Moon (32)
Healthy, Discovery, Emotion
1+2= Discovery issues health?
2+3=this discovery is not true, something imaginary?
1+3= health ?!?
Otherwise, the Tree if is not health what could be it?
Thank you
Hi Valeria.
Well, it depends what your question was as you should apply the meanings to the situation but:
Tree is health, wellbeing, energy, vitality, growth, sometimes spirituality. Book is yes, discovery but also knowledge and learning in general and secrets. The Moon is creativity, emotions, the psychic and also manifestation. You could make a discovery about your emotional or psychological health, or a spiritual one. 1+2 could be learning about your energy levels, or making a spiritual discovery, or even your learning branching out. You could make an emotional or psychic discovery – I wouldn’t say that the Lenormand Moon means ‘imaginary’ in the same way that it would in Tarot. It and the Book together like this suggest to me more of an intuitive, inner knowing. To me, this reading suggests something about your inner self, your inner wellbeing or spirituality more than your physical health.
Hope that helps
Lozzy