The Lenormand Big Spread is a legendary spread used by the famous fortuneteller Maria Lenormand to accurately predict the future. This alignment shows the past, present and future of the life situation of the questioner, as well as the direction his life situation will develop further.

The big Lenormand layout is a complex layout. which takes into account not only the independent values of each card, in accordance with the position it held, but also paired combinations of cards. This spread is used in cases where it is necessary to make a detailed forecast for any period of time where you can see both the general picture of the client’s life situation in a certain time period, as well as individual topics of interest to him: whether it will be work, relationships, health, money, children, etc.

If you use the Big layout for divination, you can predict the events from 3 to six months, or a year. Opening the cards you will sense the timeline as well as stagnating situation that your client cannot resolve.

Before starting fortune-telling, you can (but not necessarily ) mentally set a program for the cards – decide for what period of time you want to get a forecast.

Spread technique

Before you start reading, please, formulate a question and determine the time period that will be considered. Focus and shuffle the cards, move or let the questioner move the deck twice with your left hand. Then, lay the deck into three piles face down.
Now we have 3 parts of the deck. Turn them over so that the bottom card is face up. These three cards provide you with background information about the situation even before the spread is made. Three cards, which turned out to be open in the piles below, determine the driving energies take an important part in building future events.

The combination of three cards will shine a light on the deep inner state of the questioner, his subconscious motives, which guide his actions, forming the future events. After you have finished interpreting these 3 cards, put them back in a deck.

After studying these cards, shuffle the deck again, focusing on the information received. Further, the cards are taken from the deck from above in order and laid out according to the scheme (in a layout of 8 x 4 + 4). Lay out the cards as shown.

The cards are laid out, then a blank card is found (the card of the questioner). If the questioner is a man, then it will be the ace of hearts; if a woman – then the ace of spades, the jack is assigned to a child.

In the Big Lenormand Spread, each card forms a huge number of combinations with other cards, but it is best to start the interpretation with 4 corner cards. These are cards 1, 8, 25 and 32. They indicate the main theme of the layout.

By the way, the first card of the layout, the one that lies in the place of the Horseman (except for the client’s card), usually sets the tone for the entire layout, and also shows the querent’s thoughts. For example, what is most important to him or her at the moment. Traditionally, it is paired with the card in position 32, and the card in position 8 is paired with the 25th. Later, the meaning of the cards should be linked into one interpretation.

Now start interpreting all combinations of cards. The decisive and turning point of the interpretation is the card of the questioner (it can be a Man, a Woman. If it’s a housing issue – look for a House; health question, look for a Tree; it it’s work, look for Anchor, finances – Pisces, and so forth.)

The entire interpretation of the spread is based on the position of this card. This means that the meaning of each card must be in accordance with its position relative to the questioner’s card.

Gypsies call this form of interpretation “drawing a cross into the past, present and future.” The meaning will become immediately clear if you know the meaning of each position. You need to know that in the Big scenario it is not necessary to interpret all the cards, usually they consider the big and karmic crosses around the client’s letterhead and (or) individual topics of interest to the client, for example, work (Anchor), finance (Fish).

What is the “Grand Cross” in the Grand Lenormand Layout? The big cross is the vertical and horizontal lines coming from the client’s card. The vertical line is the line of the present, the horizontal line is the past and future. These lines carry basic information, so they need to be studied carefully (and interpreted strictly along the lines).

Cards that will lie closer to the questionnaire will show recent events. And the cards that will lie further will show: the past – prehistory, the farther the card the older is the event. The main card in the position of the future will be the one that lies near the questionnaire, and will show what happens in the near future. The rest of the cards following the main one will say what will happen next or will be the result of the main event. If a favorable card lies at the end of the future line, then the forecast will eventually be favorable, regardless of which card lies next to the client’s card.

What is the “Karmic Cross” in the Big scenario? A karmic cross, are cards that lie diagonally from the blank. They provide additional information for studying the past and the future. The upper diagonals are understandable, familiar phenomena, actions, events that a person was forced to accept in the past and will be forced to accept in the future. The lower diagonals are what a person was forced to do and will have to do.

The diagonals cannot be considered separately from the horizontal. They seem to be projected onto it and show the connection of events.

For example, in the horizontal line of the future, you are particularly interested in one of the cards. If you draw a vertical through it up and down to the upper and lower diagonals, respectively, then the lower card, lying at the intersection of the vertical and diagonal, will show what the client will do in connection with the card of interest. And the top card, lying at the intersection of the future line and the upper diagonal, will show what the client will be forced to agree with, what he will be forced to accept.

The position of the questioner’s card

As you laid the spread, you can see that the card of the questioner is not always in the center. This should also be taken into account when interpreting the spread.

If the client’s card lies so that there are no cards above it, or there is no before, after, or below, this is an indication that information in other areas is currently more important for the client, or that in the client’s life now is a turning point.

If the past is no longer there, then the past is gone, which means that it will no longer influence the future and, therefore, it does not matter much for future events. It means that your client just let go of his past chapter and ready for a new.

If the client does not have a future in the layout, it means that the future has not yet been formed, because the client’s past is very important for its formation. This means that we need to analyse the past of the client and what stops him of letting go, and see what steps he or she needs to make to determine the course of future action that will help to “build” this future. Thus, a person is given a chance to build his own future.

The card of the questioner in the layout is the first.

If your customer is a man, he is very worried about his future; if your client is a female, she is worried about the past. She does not see the future or it is not significant for her at the present time.

The card of the questioner in the layout is the last

the man is worried about the past, and, on the contrary, the woman is worried about the future.

The questioner’s card is shifted to the left.

The consulted person has completed an important period in his life, completed a certain cycle of his personal development, and now his main thoughts and plans are in the future. The past doesn’t matter.

It also can be a man who lives in dreams and does not realise the lessons that his life is trying to teach. For him, the past also does not matter.

The questioner’s card is shifted to the right.

At the moment, the person who came for advice needs to deal with the past. That is where the key to solving real problems lies. The future is not yet predetermined and depends on what actions he or she takes now.

The questioner’s card is shifted up.

Feelings play an important role in the counselor’s life. It is likely that at the moment he or she is in the power of the unconscious (according to Freud, the unconscious is unrealized drives that, due to conflict with the requirements of social norms, are not allowed into consciousness.).

You can see if a questionnaire is a queer and afraid to come out. Look for crossroads depending on a position of this card, you will know. Cards will tell you a story what a person is hiding and where he has issues to love and accept himself.

The card of the questioner is shifted down.

Your client is a person who is able to realistically assess what is happening and can control the situation.

However, if there are negative cards at the top, this may indicate excessive concern with non-existent, fictitious problems, fears, and a person procrastinates and denies the future.

The First Card in a Spread

The first card of the spread, which lies in the Horseman’s house, sets the tone for the whole layout – this card is very important.

If you see the Mountain (21) it means that there is a blockage for your customers actions and he’s unhappy.

1 House is very important, it, like the astrological 1 House, shows the first impression that the person who is dealt with makes. It can be used to predict how a person looks, what are his manners, basic character traits, way of thinking. In general – the primary characteristics of the type of personality, the main qualities. The House of the Horseman in the Big scenario is the house of contacts and messages, ideas, the house of thoughts.

Mountain in horseman house -Problems with documents and obtaining information.

Mountain in a first house – Problems. Block. Cold. Alienation. Heaviness. misunderstanding. Difficulties. Loneliness. Burden. Call. Delay. Blocked. Dead end. Height. Formidable. Emergency. Serious blow. Inactivity. Blockages. Boredom. Dullness. routine. conservative ideas. looks. Waiting. Inflexibility. Rigidity. Loss of spirit. Weight on the heart. Depression. hardships. Stupor. Trial. The stumbling block. Indifference.

The person is from if you needs to practice self love. He or she does not love himself or herself and super hard on himself or herself,

In Jungian psychoanalysis, a mountain is a mystical, spiritual ascent upward, to a place where revelation takes place, where the spirit is present. In many world religions, the prophets received their revelations on the mountain. And the Mountain card in the Lenormand deck gives obstacles on one level, and spiritual ascent “through thorns to the stars” on the other. Having passed through these trials and hardships, a person can rise to shining heights and view the world from a bird’s eye view.

The challenge you are facing is that your client has a great potential yet likely to waste his life for worries and indecision.

In matters of love and relationships, the Mountain card indicates that your client is in a bad relationship and is separated by a blank wall of misunderstanding. Cold. Alienation. Lack of relationship prospects. Parting, difficulties in relationships due to separation by distance or for other reasons, he cannot be together, but cannot look for a new love because of financial burden. But this you can see due to surrounding cards.

It will be important for you as a reader to understand what’s blocking your client for a successful reading.

The First Three Cards in a Spread are the Main Messages for the Querent

The first three cards of the spread are like some main message for the querent, along with the corner cards, which are defined as the main theme within the reading of the spread.

The First Four Cards in the Top Raw show the Present

It is also believed that the first four cards in the top row in the layout – 1, 2, 3, 4 show the present or the situation of the next few days.

The Last 4 Cards – show a Future within 4-6 weeks

The last 4 cards – 33, 34, 35, 36 – a guaranteed future that will happen within 4-6 weeks. It is worth considering first a combination of cards 34-35, then cards 35-36, and at the end combine everything into one. Of course, when laying out the cards, you can specify the time interval in advance, for example, you can make a layout for 6 months, but the time intervals themselves are often difficult to determine, – the fastest timeline that events will occur no later than 6 weeks.

Look at 4 cards in the center of the spread -12, 13, 20, 21 – they give you the message of the year

After that, look at the 4 cards in the center of the spread in positions: 12, 13, 20 and 21. One approach to interpretation is to consider 4 cards as the message of the year, which will be the main one in this year of your life. The interpretation should be carried out as follows: 12 cards are interpreted in tandem with 21, and 13 with 20. You can also connect all 4 cards and try to interpret them together.

The second approach – these cards show what’s on the heart of the questionnaire

The second approach treats these cards as “what’s on the heart.” In any case, their interpretation is certainly important.

All cards located up above the card of the questioner refer to the line of the present

All cards located up above the card of the questioner refer to the line of the present, meaning either real events, or those that are expected in the near future or are planned. Therefore, this vertical upward line is the threshold between the present and the future. The cards show daily problems. What is happening around your customer at the present moment of time, what is important for him, that he must decide what affects him at the present moment of his life and in some way affects his state, his thoughts.

what we trample under our feet

All the cards below the questioner represent, figuratively called by the gypsies, “what we trample under our feet” – in psychoanalytic terminology, “repressed” – these feelings or events we suppress in ourselves or try to forget.

The cards under the feet are blanks – they also refer to the line of the present.

This is the client’s unconscious anxiety, his suffering, which the querent suppresses, what he does not want to think about, what he would like to get rid of. Sometimes it can be his desires, his plans about which he worries, for which he worries. Also, the cards under your feet can indicate passing events, or, as they say, passing events (happened and gone), which have already happened or will happen within a few days.

Diagonals.

Additional information for studying the past and the future. The upper diagonals represent conscious actions, planned events, phenomena understandable to the questioner. The lower diagonals make it possible to explore hidden motives, inner desires, everything that is secret and incomprehensible.

Inner square.

Eight cards in close proximity to the questioner’s card reveal the most significant events in the life of the questionnaire.

Be sure to pay attention to these cards in contact with the personal card. They will give additional information about your customer.

Grand Cross or Gypsy Cross – Traditional form of gypsy interpretation

A connection is established between all cards located on a horizontal and vertical line from the card of the questioner. These cards reveal a sequential time chain from the past to the future.

Karmic cross

Karmic cross you read in combination with the Grand Cross. The karmic cross forms from the cards lying diagonally from the questionnaire card. These cards provide additional information for studying the past and the future.

“Correspondence”, “mirrors” and “knight’s moves”

You can read from any card of your interest for a better understanding what’s going on in your clients life. For example, if you want to learn more about the thoughts and events that are currently worrying your client, then you begin to study in detail the card lying above the questionnaire card.

Scythe, Coffin, Mountain, Cross, Clouds, Mice show troubled areas of your clients

The problem areas in which the cards are located: Scythe, Coffin, Mountain, Cross, Clouds, Mice and their environment help to draw conclusions about problem areas in the client’s life.

You can use grand cross approach as well as see the positions which card is taken by problematic card. It gives you more ideas.

Other topics of Interests

Other topics of interest: cards of marriage, relationships, partnerships (Ring and Heart), work card (Anchor), money card (Fish), health (Tree), children card (Child) and others that characterize the events of the past, present, future.

The house of the Key and the Key show how your client solves his problems

The House of the Key and the Key itself are considered as a reliability advisor. The card, which is located in the Key House, shows how or with what the client will solve the problem.

Last Four Cards are fateful and Show the Near Future

The last four cards, which lie down in the last 5th row, show what will happen in any case in the future. They are called fateful, that is, regardless of whether the person asked about it or not. These cards will show the main events that will occur in a given period of time and set the direction for subsequent development.

Pay special attention to this part – it may contain advice or caution. If the personal card of the questionnaire is in the group of these cards, then the main events are in the future. The fortuneteller is in a state of contemplation of plans or anticipates some important events. He is aware of the need for change and is ready to accept it.

Look for Cards-keys and Interpret Them Accordingly

In the Big layout there are cards – keys, which are simply mandatory to consider. These cards are desirable to find and view the Houses in which they are located, as well as their surroundings. Cards belonging to the same key are interpreted together. Each key has its own meaning.

Find Which House is Taken by Questionnaire Card

Pay attention to where in the layout is the personal card of the questionnaire m: if your customer is a man, the personal card will be “Man” (ace of hearts), if your client is a woman – “Woman” (ace of spades). The presence of a personal card in a group of key cards will emphasize the theme of this group.

This means that in the life of your client this question comes first, look at this line in more detail. See also which thematic group will have a personal card next to it.

In principle, when laying out the Big Lenormand spread, you can view the area of interest to you, considering the key cards according to the same laws as the querent card, i.e. consider its position in the layout, building verticals and horizontals, diagonals and knight moves from it.

Interpretation of the keys in the Grand scenario

There are 36 key cards in the Lenormand deck, which not only have their own meanings, their nuances and shades, but also form a lot of combinations with other similar multi-valued cards. In order to get additional information on the card of interest, you need to study the card adjacent to it, look at the “mirrors”, “correspondence” (corresponding cards) and “moves of the horses” (see below for what it is), pay attention to the proximity or remoteness between the form and the card of interest – the significator.

The place where the card of interest lay down (at the beginning, end, in the corners of the layout, etc.) also carries its semantic load when interpreting the layout.

Partnership.

First of all, you need to find the cards of a Man and a Woman. Remember that they represent you and your significant other, or the most significant person in your life. Pay attention to the cards lying between a man and a woman. If there is a Dog card nearby, then this is probably your friend, if the Anchor is a work colleague.

Another indicator of partnership is the Ring card and the cards surrounding it. The Ring Card is a card of alliances and agreements. It can be a marriage, or just a contract (rent, sale). Here you need to look at the cards of the environment, determine where this Ring is located: in the past or in the future, is it connected with love affairs or with work.

Love.

The Heart card is love affairs. Refers to emotions, feelings, matters of the heart, friendship, faith.

The cards around the card – the key-Heart consider issues that concern the questionnaire, make him or her worry, which are of high importance to your customer personally.

You can see if love comes into your clients life or, conversely, leaves it. At the same time, it must be borne in mind that the Heart card will be in the layout in any case. It can be not only Love for a representative of the opposite sex, but for a dog or for your work. Love has a lot of nuances and shades, it can be marriage, love affair, sex, or just flirting.

The various keycards of the most popular spheres are the Heart, the Ring, the Lilies, the Sun, the Stars.

When the questionnaire personal card is in the key card group, this is an indication that emotions are currently leading the questionnaire. Heart – relationships; Ring – business partnerships, union, or marriage; The man card for a woman is a partner; Lady / Snake – partner; Lilies – sex and as the opposite – romance; Sun / Stars – personal happiness, aspiration.

Friendship.

Cards that characterize (designate) a circle of friends: Dog, Bear, Bouquet and Snake; Bouquet / Park – friendly gatherings, parties Dog – a card of a friend or good acquaintance , colleague or classmate. To find out what awaits your friend, look at the adjacent cards.

Circumstances.

Then you need to find the Key card and the cards that surround the key card in a spread. Which house does the key card fall into, and which card lies in the 33rd house (House of the Key), in order to determine those things that are exactly (definitely) present in the client’s life, since the key shows exactly what is defined by the concept of “undoubted fact” .

Problems.

Also, first look at the problematic cards and their environment – we mean the Scythe, the Coffin, the Mountain, the Cross, the Clouds and the Mice. This helps to draw conclusions about problem areas in the querent’s life. Consider cards – keys, taking into account problem cards.

Job.

Here, cards can show people with whom the questionnaire has a connection at work. You need to find the Anchor in the layout and look at the cards that surround it. If there are cards nearby that can represent people, then we can talk about a colleague. There may also be cards showing (characterizing the boss). These are the Bear, the Mountain, the Tower (perhaps the Snake, the Fox can also show the bosses).

Anchor – work card, professional stability, some look and search for a Fox cards to view work moments and questions. Anchor is stability, not only in work, but also in life. The fox is considered as a job, a work colleague, a boss, an attitude in a team, the qualities of an employee, etc. The moon is professional success, self-realization in work, in creativity.

Profession.

The cards next to the key card reveal the questionnaire social status, the place he or she occupies in society, his or her livelihood, and financial situation. If the questionnaire personal card is in the key card group, then the main issue to be resolved is related to making money or a career.

Lilies – family contract, heredity, continuity in work, choice of profession; Tower – management activities, large companies, corporations and branches; Home – work from home, personal small or medium enterprise; Bear is a small firm; or a network of firms, also small; The sun is television; Sun in combination with Owls and / or Oblique – computer, work “with iron”; Book and Tower – translation activities, education; Tree or Dog – medicine; Broom and Book – journalism; Birds – any profession related to communication, obtaining information; Letter – paper; Stars – esoteric; Clover (especially with Dog or Tree) – pharmacology; Ship / Rider – mechanization, work with vehicles; Luna/Bouquet – women’s business, design, beauty salons, boutiques.

Health.

You can look at the cards a Coffin and a Tree. The tree is a card of health and stability in relationships. Next to the Garden or Home cards, it can point to a medical institution, and with an identity card, to a doctor or nurse.

Tree – body, general condition; Coffin – illness, death; Mice / Rats – stress, exhaustion; Birds / Owls – nervous diseases stress; The dog is a doctor; Spit – the risk of surgery.

Pregnancy and Childbirth:

Birds / Owls – conception; Storks – childbirth; Tree – development, health; Spit – abortion, caesarean; Moon – women’s health, fertility, cycle; Pisces/Lilies – male fertility.

Family, home.

Look at the card House. House represents household chores and private life. This is your fortress and the most intimate place. Be sure to check the surrounding cards. The cards lying next to the card – the key of the House reveal the immediate environment of the questionnaire, may indicate relatives and close friends.

Here information is given about people close and dear to the questionnaire ; if the his personal card is in the key card group, then this means that the person’s main concerns are related to home, family, loved ones.

Children.

If the question relates to children, then look at the Child card. The Child card usually denotes children under 13-14 years old, after which there are the Horseman, Dog, Fork, Bouquet. Notice if there are quantity cards nearby. Then probably children can be more than one. If there are no children, then this may refer to heirs (for example, a great-nephew).

The Child card is a child, but a child under 13-14 years old, and after that there are other key cards, such as the Rider, the Dog, the Fork, the Bouquet. Sometimes the Child card only shows certain childish character traits.

Parents.

Look at the cards Bear and Snake. The cards between the Bear and the Tower characterize (show) the father. Cards between the Serpent and the Tower can characterize the mother. If in the layout the Bear or the Snake is in the corner, and in the other corner is the Tower, this may show that the father or mother (or together) significantly influences the life of your customer.

The key card combinations in conjunction with the environment are very informative. You need to watch in the following order.

If you are interested in card 6, you should look at the combinations 1 + 11, then 2 + 10, then 3 + 9, and 7 + 5, and these pairs completely open the meaning of what is happening now around this topic. If such diagonal combinations as 1+11 and 3+9 still have a further continuation along the plane, then such a diagonal gives even more information. For example, 1+11+16, where 16 can already lead to another topic, serve as a bridge between two different questions.

HOUSES in the Big Grand Spread

Cards in the Grand Lenormand Spread are read taking into account the Houses in which they lay down, each house is responsible for certain areas in accordance with the meaning of its “native” card. The House in the Big Spread is the place of each card in the spread, which corresponds to the position of the spread and the serial number of the card. For example: the Horseman is the first in the deck, which means that the place where, according to the layout scheme, we put any card that fell out first in the layout, will be the Horseman’s House. And if the 6th card lies in the Rider’s House – Clouds, then we will say that the Clouds lie in the Rider’s House. About the card that we put in the second position, i.e. in the second House, we will say that she lies in the House of Clover. And if, for example, the Clover card falls on the 16th position, we will say that Clover is in the House of Stars, because. it is the Star card that is in the deck at number 16. The meanings of the Houses correspond to the direct meaning of the cards under this number.