3 LENORMAND TOOLS FOR SETTING YOUR ANNUAL INTENTION

Planning is one of my favorite parts of any activity.

I love the whole process of life end to end, but planning has a special place. I think it’s because my thoughts and feelings get to roam freely, unrestrained by anything that’s actualized.

The calendar has a way of helping us reset our intentions, and the most powerful time for this reset is the beginning of the year. At the beginning of each year, take out pens, pencils, highlighters, paper, notebooks, boards, and any other tools you enjoy using to draw a big picture.

I like my electronic calendar, a notepad, and my Astroclock reading. The Astroclock is a month-by-month forecast for the coming year.

While it's always fun to get it done as a new year ritual for the next January through December, you can get it at anytime for the next twelve months. (You can order your Astroclock private reading here).

If you read personal development and business blogs, you’ll often find that there are elaborate differences between intentions and goals that often entail an equally elaborate planning process.

I don’t always agree with these approaches. Instead, I feel that how we define our intentions and goals is and should be personal. The only condition is that we formulate them in a way that motivates us to make tangible progress until we achieve them.

Lenormand’s cards and layouts can help us with this because they’re the most tangible and action-oriented cards around.

Here are three awesome Lenormand tools you can use to guide your Annual Intention.

1. USE LENORMAND READER'S 12 THEMES TO GUIDE YOUR INTENTIONS

If you’ve the Master Guides, you’d know that I organize life themes into twelve areas.

In the same way that the zodiac’s twelve signs correspond to different life areas, I’ve identified twelve themes based on Lenormand’s cards. I use these themes to interpret the Astroclock as well as the Grand Tableau.

My Lenormand themes help pinpoint what’s going on in different life areas. You can use these same themes to guide your year ahead.

If you’re still a bit unclear about what you’ve accomplished this year, break it down by thinking about what you’ve achieved across your different life areas like health, work, money, and relationships. You might have other areas of interest like creativity and housekeeping, and your relationships could cover anyone from family members to your professional network.

Don’t dwell on the past though; this is meant to inspire your intentions for the coming year. This isn’t about being very specific about your goals at this stage, but about envisioning your life in the coming year.

You might like to close your eyes a bit and feel your way through this for a few moments. You know you’re on the right track when it feels good and you’re smiling to yourself! Let your inner star inspire your faith and hopefulness.

2. USE YOUR ASTROCLOCK TO PLAN YOUR YEAR

If you follow my YouTube channel, you’d know that I draw an annual Astroclock reading, which you can also get as a private reading.

The Astroclock is an amazing spread uses all 36 Lenormand cards to offer monthly highlights for the year ahead.

As each month has only three cards, the Astroclock offers an overview, though it’s also possible to draw a lot more insights from the cards by interpreting them for different life areas - what I call correspondences.

The general meaning of the cards point to a life theme or area. So the Astroclock brings up the different themes at different months in the year to help us plan the year ahead. For example, if the Ship shows up in May and it’s positively aspected by nearby cards, it could suggest that you travel around that time.

But that’s not the only way to interpret the Ship as it’s also about setting sail in a metaphorical sense and achieving goals, especially in work and business. So the cards are flexible and you can always interpret them in a way that supports you.

The fact that the Astroclock uses all 36 Lenormand cards has advantages: First, it brings up all the different life areas so we keep them in mind, and second, it guides us to dedicate different months to different areas.

We can’t do everything at the same time, and even if we could, it’s best to focus on one thing at a time so we accomplish our goals in tangible chunks. The Astroclock helps us organize our year in these ways.

Nevertheless, keep in mind that the Astroclock does not replace your own plan for the year. Instead, it complements it by giving you inspiring and practical ideas about how you can tackle your goals in the coming twelve months.

3. DRAW THREE CARDS

In this blog post, I described three ways to read three cards.

Three cards are an easy and practical short line to read. It’s short enough to be quick and focused, and long enough to tell a story through two card pairs and a middle card.

You can draw three cards to get clarity at any point in your visioning and planning process,  but at this time of the year, you might like to draw them to get a general theme for your year ahead. And you can subsequently use them as a background for your Astroclock’s monthly cards.

Once you’ve drawn three cards, think about the story they’re telling you and pay special attention to the middle card.

You can interpret positive cards to mean what you ought to pursue and achieve, and negative cards to mean obstacles that you need to overcome this year.

Use your three cards to inspire your Annual Intention, and be sure to keep note of them in your journal.

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