Today’s deck is a Lenormand, this time the Celtic Lenormand, which has a Celtic/Pagan theme. The deck has alternative versions for some of the cards; it has a summer and winter Tree, for instance (Oak and Holly), two Snake cards, one shedding its skin, the other as standard, alternate Man and Woman, Child and Rider cards, three different Birds cards, and a Cat card as an alternative to the Dog if you wish.
So here’s a 9-Card reading using this deck. Again, I’m looking into the “Secret” , the thing that’s being hidden, the thing to know, from previous readings.
Fish: Money, Cashflow, Business & Enterprise
Lilies: Maturity, Experience, Age
Whip: Conflict, Arguments, Struggle, Hard Work
Tree: Health, Wellbeing, Energy
Book: Secret, Knowledge, Mystery, Hidden
Owls: Conversation, Discussion, Communication. In this deck, the Owls represent an older, wiser, advisory kind of communication.
Garden: Public, Outside World, People, Sharing, Groups, Community. The card in this deck represents a communal or shared meal, or feast.
Snake: Problem, Issue, Negativity
Cat: An alternate version of the Dog card, the Cat, this also represents friendship and help (in the sense of the familiar), but has a more independent energy than the Dog.
So this suggests the secret, what is being hidden from the public, is something negative connected with age and experience, perhaps something that has developed and got worse over a long time (Lilies, Book, Snake). Above, we see there are public or shared finances or business to do with health and wellbeing (Fish, Tree, Garden), so in the UK, this could well be NHS-related. Sitting underneath it are difficult or fractious negotiations with a ‘friend’ or helper who, notably, have quite an independent energy at the moment, are going their own way (Whip, Birds, Cat).
What we see in the recent past for this situation is financial or business struggles over a long time (Fish, Lilies, Whip), leading to health knowledge, secrets and talks (Tree, Book, Birds). Ahead there will be public or shared problems to do with support (Garden, Snake, Cat).
Diagonally, there’s business or money secrets with helpers or carers (Fish, Book, Cat), and public knowledge or info about the dispute (Garden, Book, Whip).
Knighting each of the cards to get more info tells us that cash-wise, there are problems with negotiations (Fish, Snake, Birds), that we’ve had a long time with public supporters or helpers (Lilies, Garden, Cat), that there are disputes over health issues (Whip, Tree, Snake). The discussions or negotiations are over public or shared cash (Birds, Fish, Garden), there’s a kind of community or group experience that’s being discussed (Garden, Lilies, Birds), and the real difficulties are over financial strife and hardship (Snake, Fish, Whip). The help and assistance, meanwhile, is to do with health and has been for a long time (Cat, Tree, Lilies).
I would say, then, this is about the impending strikes and talks re: pay for health service workers.
Negotiations getting difficult and fractious around public health, health workers, and shared or communal money.