LENORMAND SHIP: FEATURES & KEYWORDS

The Ship is the 3rd card of the deck, it is associated with the 10 of Spades, and it is generally positive.

POSITIVE / NEUTRAL KEYWORDS  Vehicle, journey, travel, departure, arrival, opportunity, adventure, enterprise, projects, success, progress, commerce, discoveries.

NEGATIVE KEYWORDS  Delays, cancellations, uncertainty, distance, procrastination, restlessness, unfulfilled wishes.

LENORMAND SHIP: DESCRIPTION

The Ship card typically depicts a vessel sailing on water. This imagery indicates travel, progress, and rewards. It can mean arriving or departing, so context is key. It is generally bright and active, pointing to new opportunities, activity, and engagement, especially in commercial ventures. In this sense, the Ship indicates efforts bearing fruit or that things take off. It also suggests new interests, discoveries, and exploration. It is among the wish cards, signaling success and seeing our hopes materialize, though negative cards can influence its outcome.

LENORMAND SHIP: CARD MEANING OVERVIEW

The Ship card indicates travel but also rewards. It can mean arriving or departing, so context and nearby cards are important to identify the kind of movement at hand. It’s generally bright and active, and points to new opportunities, progress, activity, and engagement, especially in commercial ventures.

In this sense, the Ship indicates efforts bearing fruit or that things take off. It suggests new interests, discoveries, and exploration, often related to foreign lands or international business.

As one of the wish cards, it indicates success and seeing our hopes materialize, though it can be influenced by negative cards. The Ship advises against procrastination and wasting time, urging us to set goals and set sail with an adventurous spirit. It brings the possibility of making changes and improvements in life and work.

LENORMAND SHIP: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE

The Ship card is inherently hopeful, linking movement with positive outcomes and wealth.

In its most pronounced positive context, the Ship promises success and rewards, affirming that efforts are bearing fruit. It signals an important voyage or adventure, or that rewards come in, especially through trade, commerce, and business. It points to new adventures, profitable enterprises, and the successful pursuit of projects. The card encourages us to be bold and seize opportunities with an adventurous spirit.

With negative cards, challenges, delays, cancellations of trips or business projects, or travel problems are indicated. The wish aspect of the Ship is unfulfilled or temporarily blocked. The negative cards may suggest that it is best to postpone, or address the challenges. The Ship's energy can also manifest as restlessness or uncertainty about the journey ahead, failing to "land".

LENORMAND SHIP: CORRESPONDENCES

The Ship is the card of travel, opportunity, and commerce. It governs journeys, exploration, and success in enterprise.

• Work & Career: Signifies success in business, return on investment, opportunities for growth, and making good money. It indicates venturing out, business travel, working remotely, or an offshored/virtual team. Industries include: Travel, tourism, transport, shipping, and commerce. Roles often include flight attendants, pilots, and those working at airports/train stations, but also business owners and entrepreneurs.
• Money & Finance: Relates to sales, trading, money transfers, inheritance, liquidating assets, or selling/divesting interests. It signals positive growth and returns, and success in trade and dealings.
• Love & Relationships: Can mean a connection with a foreigner or a long-distance relationship. It indicates progress, traveling together, fun times, and a happy relationship. Negatively, it suggests a partner who is not committed or genuinely attached, and separation is possible with certain negative cards.
• Health & Wellness: Relates physically to the liver, gallbladder, spleen, pancreas, digestive, urinary, circulatory, and lymphatic systems. Issues include: vertigo, motion sickness, fear of flying, and diarrhea, as well as problems with the systems mentioned.
• Spiritual & Personal Growth: Focuses on our willingness to explore ourselves and our surroundings. It suggests being in transition, needing to cross over into something new, and refers to practices like shamanic journeying, astral travel, or out-of-body experiences. It speaks to the journey of the soul/life, longing, and yearning for something distant.
• Character & Personality: Describes a foreigner, an immigrant, a tourist, or a third culture kid. They are adventurous, enterprising, spontaneous, free, and nomadic, tending to move countries often, and enjoying discovering new things and places. Negatively, they can be impulsive, not planning very well, or suffering from wanderlust.

In summary, the Ship is a vital card that signals progress and opportunity through movement. It advises you to be bold, explore new horizons, and take the necessary steps to see your long-term goals and enterprises succeed.

LENORMAND SHIP: ADVICE

When the Ship appears as advice in a Lenormand reading, its core message is active pursuit, adventure, and enterprise.

The Ship advises against procrastination and wasting time. We need to set goals and set sail, embracing an active and engaged approach. It also encourages us to assume a more adventurous spirit and think outside the box.

The card invites us to shake things up and make some changes and improvements in our life and work. The idea is to refresh and re-energize by taking a trip, venturing out, or getting away. It also encourages us to be bold enough to kick something off and get going. The overall message is to be enterprising and pursue our dreams and goals without hesitation.

LENORMAND SHIP: IN THE PORTRAIT

On the first or central card of the nine-card portrait, the Ship tends toward travelling and taking a break. It also suggests that we be enterprising and pursue our dreams and goals.

The central placement in particular tells of success and efforts bearing fruit, though it’s still strongly influenced by nearby cards regarding the ease of this success. The Ship advises against procrastination and wasting time. The advice is to set goals and set sail, and to assume a more adventurous spirit and think outside the box to achieve those goals.

LENORMAND SHIP: IN THE GRAND TABLEAU

In the Grand Tableau, the Ship's distance from the significator influences whether it predicts a physical journey or financial rewards. The Ship near the significator indicates a voyage and likely an important one that will directly affect the querent's life. When far, the focus shifts from travel to finance: rewards come in, especially through trade, commerce, or similar ventures. In all cases, the Ship points to progress, activity, and new opportunities.

LENORMAND SHIP: IN SOME CARD COMBINATIONS

The Ship With The...      Means...

SHIP + BEAR  A big trip; a bonus or major project arrives. Financial success through imports/exports.

SHIP + CHILD  Visit to a new place; a new adventure or a new project. Beginning a journey or a new import.

SHIP + COFFIN  A trip delayed or cancelled; delay or cancellation of business projects. Failure to launch.

SHIP + DOG  A travel companion; travel or projects with friends or colleagues. Long-distance friendship.

SHIP + GARDEN  Exploring foreign locations and cultures; adventure. International networking; a cruise.

SHIP + HOUSE  Uprooting ourselves; a house move, often overseas. An inheritance related to property.

SHIP + MOUSE  Travel problems; might be best to postpone the trip. Decay in commercial projects; lost luggage.

SHIP + TOWER  A trip taken in the past; a place from the past. Following our instinct and wisdom; government/corporate travel.

SHIP + WHIP  Travel problems, or challenges in trade and business. Repetitive/troublesome travel; fierce competition.

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

SHIP + ANCHOR  Landing; a long-distance goal is stabilized. Hesitation between staying and leaving; permanent relocation.

ANCHOR + SHIP  Leaving a stable situation; moving or setting sail towards progress. Permanent change in employment/location.

ANCHOR + MOUNTAIN  An immovable obstacle or hard boundary. Limits are set; standing strong against a challenge.

MOUNTAIN + ANCHOR  A foothold or base abroad. Stability achieved in a distant or challenging location; long-term blockage.