Dear card readers,

I just stumbled upon an interesting potential meaning of the Man card I haven’t come across before.
I wanted to do a quick open reading, no specific question in mind just: what's next for me?

19 Tower_28 Man_33 Key
14 Fox_8 Coffin_30 Lilies

Bottom card: 17 Stork

Cards in the lower row are the descriptors/clarifiers.

The man and the coffin gave me a bit of a headache. The only way I could make sense of this was: by establishing smart boundaries I put an end to a connection with man so I can keep my peace.
There is a man in my neighbourhood I find attractive and even though our interaction had been very brief so far, I had the impression that something was not quite right. There is an uneasiness and some red flags. I already tried to navigate around the places where I usually run into him (that could be indicated by the stork).
So far so good. A couple of hours later I sit at my computer. My coach gave me the assignment to check for potential further educations. So I did a bit of research and also asked ChatGPT. This was actually quite a good idea because that's basically the only job AI has in my life: proofreading my applications and hinting at blind spots etc. ”It knows” for example which skills I'm lacking in regard to positions I'm applying for.
Then the light bulb: Man + Coffin = the lifeless entity (in the box)!

Then the cards can be read as me, smart in solitude, asking the lifeless entity (AI) about how to access new honours.
Of course, Tower and Fox can speak about the institution that is cunning-up people. But I usually go with the most fluent, succinct wording that comes to me.
Stork as the theme of the reading would be the levelling-up.

I just wanted to share this. Just like we use the Stars to indicate the internet we'll need cards to represent other new technologies that become part of our lives. And I'm amazed how the cards themselves come up with suggestions for that!

I love that combo for AI. What else could represent it except a 'person' card in a box... and a coffin at that since there's no life, as you said.

(For me, either because I don't read with it regularly or my brain works better with tarot, I almost always struggle with which of the possible meanings to go with. Even though I only use one method that I learned years ago, and I think it's a great method, there's still the question of whether to take things in their metaphorical sense like a loss, or literal meaning, like a box. When I read with tarot, I just know (or at least feel that I know) which aspect of the card to go with in combination. With Lenormand, these sorts of brilliant pairs don't occur to me, and if I had drawn Man and Coffin myself, I probably would never have made the connection like you did.)

I love AI as well.

Also would make a great zombie 😄

We recently discussed the person cards in Celine's thread in which I also posted a link to a video by Donna Leigh. Her notion of a ”different influence independent of gender” is reverberating anew.

The man alone could have reprented AI – the coffin just made it clear to me (that's why I love those descriptor cards!).