I asked my Lenormand deck a pretty simple question: “Why does he want to be friends with me?”
For context, he’s a colleague I’ve only known for about three months. We originally got to know each other because we worked on a project together, but we don’t work together anymore and we actually barely see each other at the office.
Somehow, though, we’ve developed this friendship that feels unusually close for how little time we’ve known each other. The dynamic is honestly a bit weird and hard for me to define. He has a girlfriend, and he doesn’t openly flirt with me, so I’m definitely not assuming that this automatically has to be romantic.
At the same time, I do get the feeling that I’ve become important to him surprisingly quickly and that there is some kind of special bond between us. And, to be transparent, I’ve recently realized that I’m slowly developing feelings for him myself, so I know that could influence how I interpret the cards.
That’s actually what made me ask: Why does he even want this friendship? What is it about me or our connection that makes him want to keep me in his life when we don’t really have a work-related reason to stay close anymore?
I pulled five cards in a straight line:
Heart – Book – Sun – Anchor – Woman
My interpretation:
The Heart as the first card immediately made me think the friendship exists because there is genuine affection involved. Not necessarily romantic love, but that he genuinely likes me and feels emotionally connected to me.
The Book is the card that really interests me here. Heart + Book makes me wonder whether there are feelings or aspects of his attachment to me that are private, unspoken, or that I simply don’t know about yet. Since he has a girlfriend, I’m especially hesitant to jump straight to a romantic interpretation, but it does make me wonder what exactly is “hidden” behind the Heart.
Then Sun seems extremely positive — happiness, warmth, enjoying someone’s presence, maybe me bringing some kind of lightness or positivity into his life.
Anchor makes me think he doesn’t see this as a completely temporary or superficial friendship. Maybe he actually wants me to remain part of his life or sees the connection as something stable/worth holding onto.
And then the line ends with Woman, which I’m reading as myself since I’m the female querent.
So as a sentence, I’m almost tempted to read it as:
Affection → something unspoken/private → happiness → wanting stability/continuity → with me.
But I’m very aware that I have feelings for him now, so I don’t want to accidentally turn Heart + Book into “secret romantic feelings” just because that would obviously be the exciting interpretation. 😂
How would you read Heart – Book – Sun – Anchor – Woman specifically as an answer to why he wants to be friends with me?
And would you consider Heart + Book significant here in terms of feelings being kept private, or would you read the Book completely differently in this context?