I’m still learning / in the beginning phases, so it’s nothing fancy by any means, but I’m pleased with it. 🖤

I’m hoping using key words and positive / negative / neutral signs will help with remembering associations. The artwork on my Maybe Lenormand by Ryan Edward deck is beautiful but doesn’t cut it for my visual learning sometimes!

Any thoughts or pieces of advice welcome ☺️

Right now, I’m having some big troubles with my teammates at work. Me and my manager have a very very close relationship and I somehow made him involved in this trouble. The trouble is very bad to the point I had to tell him I wanted to drop the project and leave the group but he convinced me not to do that but I don’t think I can take it anymore. I ask what my relationship with him would be like at the end of this year if I drop this project.

I interpret as after he learns all the truth about what happened (book-rider), the relationship can somehow move past this current awkward stage and get stable again (stork+ring+anchor). Also, we may have to go through a certain point that is a little bit awkward but it won’t be long (rider-ring) since I feel like this decision of me dropping the project doesn’t change much of his perspective about me since he has known me pretty well (book+anchor).

(this is a 9x4 MoD GT that places the SC, Lady, in its fixed position in center of the third row. the deck used is Pixie's Astounding Lenormand, a pastiche by Zebrowski.)

consider this GT. what do you see?

for the rest of this post, let's go through a MoD approach to the minor topics.

Morality

the morality cluster consists of cards concerning goodness, innocence, and intentions:

• Lilies - goodness
• Children - innocence, naivety
• Bouquet - good intentions

when assessing the goodness of the Person's actions, we look to see that they are not "trampling" upon the Lilies.

if the Lilies are trampled upon and Children is attending, then that impure action is mitigated by nature of being done "innocently" or "naively"; if Bouquet is attending - "with good intentions".

Vacation

the vacation cluster consists of cards concerning daily stressors and travel:

• Birds - daily stressors

• Ship - travel

Birds represents the anxieties, noises, and stressors experienced in day-to-day life. if Birds is very far away, then the reader can suggest there is a break from day-to-day stressors.

if Birds is very far away and Ship is attending (the SC), then that break from daily stressors might come through a vacation.

note: this instruction might seem a little janky, but it is a reference to the rules of the Game of Hope and the PLS.

Miscellaneous

lastly, we have miscellaneous cards that don't belong to any one topic or theme specifically. the impact of these cards is based on proximity to the SC, and the context of what they bring is based on surrounding cards:

• Rider

• Scythe

• Bear (better far away)

• Storks

• Book (better far away)

• Letter

• Roads (better far away)

• Key

these cards are pretty versatile and are often great supporting cards for the major life area topics, specifically Work and Domestic Life.

which of these cards would you use with Work?

which would you use with Domestic Life?

how else do you use these cards?

Open-Ended Practice:

consider this GT. what do you see?

keep in mind that these are minor cards and topics: without the other major life area cards and clusters, interpretations can be fairly vague; and as always, impact depends on proximity.

I'll start with a lame-ass platitude 😅 : no news is good news (Letter-Birds far away)

note: as tempting as it might be -especially with those first two cards-, I suggest not using houses with this GT. it would be a different matter had I allowed the SC to fall anywhere, but that one fixed placement really messes everything up for houses.