Identifying Enemies & Trouble In A Lenormand Grand Tableau

Using clusters of cards to spot troublesome people upcoming and issues to address

As we’ve been talking about the figure of the Enemy quite a lot here on the Daily Oracle in relation to news and current events readings, I thought I’d share some thoughts on what you might do to investigate further if “enemy” cards keep being hinted at in your personal readings. Can you identify them? What can you do to dive deeper and find out what (or who) it is you might need to address?

Now, this is an expanded excerpt from a post I wrote recently on my Lozzy’s Lenormand blog about identifying enemies in readings. I’ll write at some point in the future about finding and identifying enemies with the different oracle decks I use on the Daily Oracle, but I wanted to dive deeper into finding them in the Lenormand Grand Tableau in particular, because it’s quite a useful way of looking at the cards.

Have I Got Enemies? Who Might They Be?

There are ways you can find out if there’s anything awry by taking a look at a Grand Tableau. Are you surrounded by friends… or foes? Is there anything untoward showing up near your Querent card? And if so, what? What should you be looking out for if you suspect there’s someone with an axe to grind,  or something strange going on?

I’ve recently been reading Bjorn Meuris’s Lenormand book (Petit Lenormand Encyclopedia Vol II) that looks at traditional Near and Far readings in the Grand Tableau, and where he talks about identifying clusters or groups of cards in different themes and I found it a really useful way of thinking about the cards in this spread. He calls the “enemy” cluster “The Gang Of Misery”.

To refresh your memory on the original “Philippe Lenormand” Near & Far instructions and card meanings, take a look here:

So let’s take a deeper dive into finding out what and who to look out for in your Grand Tableau.