LENORMAND MOUSE: FEATURES & KEYWORDS

The Mouse is the 23rd card of the deck, it is associated with the 7 of Clubs, and it is generally negative.

POSITIVE / NEUTRAL KEYWORDS  Attentive to detail, alerting us to issues.

NEGATIVE KEYWORDS  Nuisances, complications, glitches, annoyances, loss, theft, waste, decay, mistrust, fatigue, stress, untrustworthy person.

LENORMAND MOUSE: DESCRIPTION

The Mouse card typically depicts one or more small mice. It represents inconvenience, deterioration, and anxiety. It indicates annoyances, frustrations, delays, damage, and waste. The Mouse is symbolic of anything going wrong, breaking down, expiring, deteriorating, or being inconvenienced. The card also indicates theft or losses, whether material or otherwise, and generally causes stress, agitation, and fatigue.

LENORMAND MOUSE: CARD MEANING OVERVIEW

The Mouse card is the card of inconvenience. Under its influence, problems are thrown our way and we may have to stop everything to deal with them. It signifies small issues that erode a situation: damage, wasted time or money, deterioration, or delays.

With people, it’s also bad news as it indicates someone untrustworthy, unreliable, stressful, draining, nagging, or plain annoying. It suggests a high level of mistrust in the current situation. The Mouse often causes stress and agitation, sometimes causing physical anxiety or palpitations.

This said, the Mouse is not very strong by itself; bright cards can overcome it and possibly help us recover whatever had been lost. However, if left unchecked, the accumulation of small annoyances and losses can grow into big problems. It serves primarily as a warning sign that requires attention.

LENORMAND MOUSE: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE

The Mouse card is inherently disruptive, but its context determines the outcome of the nuisance.

With positive cards like Sun or Key, or when paired with Scythe, the Mouse's draining influence is overcome, and we may experience a recovery of what was lost or take, especially with Flowers. Similar combinations can also serve to alert us to take preventative steps before anything grows out of control—a key warning of the Mouse.

When combined with additional negative cards, problems will escalate, aggravating or multiplying the issues brought by the Mouse. This signals major obstacles, confirming that the situation or a person is untrustworthy and draining, causing the querent to feel fatigue, overwhelmed, or chaotic. The querent is likely to suffer from an accumulation of losses or annoyances, or experience sagging energy and emotional fatigue. The critical risk with the Mouse is that small, overlooked annoyances turn into substantial crises.

LENORMAND MOUSE: CORRESPONDENCES

The Mouse is the card of inconvenience, decay, and loss. It governs stress, theft, and minor complications that accumulate.

• Work & Career: Often indicates poor, stressful, unhealthy, or possibly corrupt work environments. The work itself can involve repetitive if not boring tasks, or manual/factory jobs like tailoring, weaving, or repairs. It points to job loss, redundancies, being unhappy, burdened, or burned out. The work often isn't steady or involves odd jobs.
• Money & Finance: Signifies all kinds of difficulties, expenses that add up, waste, loss, poor returns, debt, corruption, or even exploitation. Advice: Work diligently to stop the bleeding, pay attention to every penny, and save meticulously.
• Love & Relationships: Can represent codependency, mistrust, manipulation, differences, instability, tension, or possessiveness. The relationship is often described as "a headache" due to constant annoyances and anxiety.
• Health & Wellness: Relates physically to the nervous system and mental health. It signifies addiction, illness, loss of vitality, declining health, and worsening condition. Symptoms include: palpitations, hyperventilation, panic, anxiety, deficit disorders. It covers anything sagging or declining like loose skin, stretch marks, hair loss, deficiencies, and so on. It can suggest more serious conditions like hemorrhaging, tumours, infections, and parasites.
• Spiritual & Personal Growth: Focuses on bleeding energy, giving our power away, unhealthy attachments, addiction, codependency, mistrust, and manipulation. The spiritual work involves releasing worrying, stress, and anxiety, and the need to release all these negative tendencies.
• Character & Personality: Describes someone who is an energy vampire, a flake, or someone who isn't trustworthy. They are often characterized as unreliable, flaky, takers (borrow without returning), careless, lazy, ill-willed, critical, skeptical, and anxious/panicky/jittery/fearful. They can also be workaholics due to underlying anxiety.

In summary, the Mouse is a critical warning card that compels you to address the small issues causing stress and decay before they lead to significant loss or illness.

LENORMAND MOUSE: ADVICE

When the Mouse appears as advice in a Lenormand reading, its core message is one of vigilance and damage control.

The Mouse alerts us to the possibility of things going wrong, something being lost or stolen, or someone who isn’t trustworthy. We need to rectify the issue before it gets worse, so we can stop the bleeding and prevent bigger problems down the line. Although it’s not very strong in its negativity, it’s a crucial warning sign.

The advice is to focus on getting the details right while remaining alert to anything else that could go wrong. It also asks us to avoid being overly critical of others—to manage our own stress response. Overall, the message is to protect what is currently at risk.

LENORMAND MOUSE: IN THE PORTRAIT

On the first or central card of the nine-card portrait, we could suffer a loss or experience any of the issues associated with the Mouse (annoyances, stress, decay). The best advice here is to focus on getting the details right while remaining alert to anything else that could go wrong.

Additionally, and especially in the central position, the Mouse answers a query negatively, suggesting disappointment and things not working out as desired. However, with bright, powerful cards nearby, this can be overturned, suggesting that things can materialize as we would like them to despite some delays, or once obstacles are out of the way.

LENORMAND MOUSE: IN THE GRAND TABLEAU

In the Grand Tableau, the Mouse's effects depend on the issues it’s highlighting – loss or stress – and surrounding cards.

Whether near or far, the Mouse indicates losses and theft. But when near the significator, there’s a good chance we can recover the loss, especially with positive cards nearby. With timing, the Mouse nearby suggests a few days. Nearness also suggests stress and illness are possible for the querent.

On the other hand, the farther the Mouse, the harder it will be to recover whatever had been lost, and timing depends on whether opportunities present themselves. At the same time, when it’s far, we’re protected from its stresses and illnesses.

LENORMAND MOUSE: IN SOME CARD COMBINATIONS

The Mouse With The...      Means...

MOUSE + ANCHOR  Self-protection, boundaries, or vigilance required in a stable situation. Loss of job or security.

MOUSE + BIRD  Pettiness, foolishness, or challenges expressing ourselves. Gossip, chatter, and worry.

MOUSE + BOOK  Misinformation, missing information, or loss of secrets. Stress about knowledge or studies.

MOUSE + CROSS  Trials, tests, or tribulations we must persevere through. A chronic burden or spiritual loss.

MOUSE + DOG  An energy drain, or someone untrustworthy. Loss of a friendship or a difficult friend.

MOUSE + FLOWERS  Recovery of something lost or stolen, or compensation for it.

MOUSE + HEART  Loss of interest, disheartened, or discouraged. Emotional decay or relationship erosion.

MOUSE + LILY  Stress, sagging energy, depression, or loss of enthusiasm. Stuck in rut, lack of growth.

MOUSE + MOUNTAIN  Decay, delays, or major obstacles being eroded slowly. Loss of opportunity abroad, or a discouragement from traveling.

MOUSE + SCYTHE  An end, a loss, or can mean relief from something draining. The removal of the decay.

The order of the cards (or directionality) often matters. Here are a couple of examples:

MOUSE + FLOWERS  Recovery of something lost or stolen. Overcoming negativity, becoming enthusiastic again.

FLOWERS + MOUSE  Negativity or erosion affecting optimism and hope. Doubts or annoyances corrupting joy; a short period of stress.

MOUSE + RIDER  Moving past losses or problems. Overcoming negativity and challenges.

RIDER + MOUSE  Slowing down; speed bumps in the way, delayed or disappointing news. Dealing with issues and annoyances that cause stress.