LENORMAND SNAKE: FEATURES & KEYWORDS

The Snake is the 7th card of the deck, it is associated with the Queen of Clubs, and it is generally negative.

POSITIVE / NEUTRAL KEYWORDS  Wisdom, diplomacy, tact, secrecy, indirect route, maneuvering, sharp intelligence, inner knowledge.

NEGATIVE KEYWORDS  Betrayal, lies, deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, rivalry, threat, twists, turns, trap, emotional manipulation, cheating, illicit affairs.

LENORMAND SNAKE: DESCRIPTION

The Snake card typically depicts a coiled or slithering snake. It is a tricky card, often suggesting deceit and malice, but it can also indicate wisdom. It frequently refers to matters of secrecy, tact, diplomacy, charm, and taking the indirect route to achieve goals. On the down side, the complications it brings are often twists and turns that need to be carefully maneuvered. It often symbolizes a trap or a bite that’s waiting to strike. In love, it is the card of cheating and illicit affairs.

LENORMAND SNAKE: CARD MEANING OVERVIEW

The Snake card is perhaps the trickiest of the deck. It’s often negative, suggesting deceit and malice, but it can also indicate wisdom and the need for clever strategy.

It frequently refers to secrecy, tact, diplomacy, charm, and taking the indirect route to achieve goals. The complications it brings are often twists and turns that require careful maneuvering. It’s often a trap or a bite that’s waiting to strike.

Unlike the negative Fox, which wants to defraud us of tangible things like money, the Snake is more about emotional manipulation and relational betrayal. In love, it is the card of cheating and illicit affairs. It demands caution and asks us to move away from anything or anyone harmful.

LENORMAND SNAKE: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE

The Snake is inherently complex, swinging between cunning danger and necessary intelligence.

The Snake is generally negative but with positive cards, it represents wisdom, clever management, and sharp diplomatic skills. It suggests the use of a roundabout approach and patience to achieve a goal, or the ability to disarm a threat through strategic thinking. The negative energy is channeled into tact and clever maneuvering, which is necessary to navigate a tricky situation. In this light, the Snake advises silence and not sharing thoughts with others to protect one's position.

The Snake is usually aggravated by additional negative cards and can suggest lies, deceit, hypocrisy, and rivalry. It points to a 'frenemy', someone manipulative, or an ill-willed. The querent is vulnerable to the Snake’s venom, with jealous people and hidden enemies trying to compromise their position. This is the realm of emotional manipulation and cheating, where the querent must be cautious, avoiding someone dishonest, partial, or hypocritical.

LENORMAND SNAKE: CORRESPONDENCES

The Snake is the card of deception, wisdom, and complexity. It governs manipulation, hidden motives, and shrewd strategy.

• Work & Career: Signifies technical issues, problems, setbacks, complications, and treachery. It suggests an infected environment where negative gossip, backbiting, and machiavellian behavior occurs. It points to things happening behind the scenes. Professions include: Plumbing and wiring, dealing with hidden or intricate systems.
• Money & Finance: Neutral, its outcome depends on nearby cards. It can indicate clever management or a bad investment, or a situation where someone is mishandling our affairs. Vigilance regarding financial deception is advised.
• Love & Relationships: Represents a love triangle, dishonesty, cheating, jealousy, envy, and possessiveness. It points to silent treatment, lack of trust, abuse of confidences, or a high-maintenance, difficult-to-please partner. It can represent a female same-sex partner.
• Health & Wellness: Relates physically to the digestive system, large and small intestines, colon, and rectum. It warns of digestive issues, contagious or transmitted diseases, minor issues like a cold/flu, and addiction, especially food-related cravings.
• Spiritual & Personal Growth: Focuses on kundalini and the work needed to awaken it. It advises shedding old skin and letting go of toxic elements. Practices include: grounding exercises (like barefoot walking, yoga), reviewing toxic people/places/things, and seeking like-minded people to release the toxic ones.
• Character & Personality: Describes someone who is calm, composed, a planner, sophisticated, charming, mesmerizing, diplomatic, and tactful. Negatively, they are a hypocrite, sweet-talker, rival, or bent on bending the truth. They can be cunning, passive-aggressive, two-faced, mean, envious, prone to backstab, outright bitchy, cold, distant, proud, or possibly sleazy. However, this can also be a shrewd and clever woman.

In summary, the Snake is a crucial card that demands alertness and diplomatic finesse. It advises you to use your intelligence to maneuver around or release yourself from manipulative and complicated situations.

LENORMAND SNAKE: ADVICE

When the Snake appears as advice in a Lenormand reading, its core message is caution, diplomacy, and strategic retreat.

The Snake raises suspicion and asks us to be careful and alert. It advises us to move away from something or someone harmful, and make sure they don’t compromise our position. We should take flattery and compliments at face value, and realize that they’re not necessarily sincere.

The advice is often to be silent and not share our thoughts with others. Diplomacy and tact are key to achieving goals. If a threat is present, the card advises us to wait for the right time to strike or make our move, and to be alert to the signals around us rather than acting impulsively.

LENORMAND SNAKE: IN THE PORTRAIT

On the first or central card of the nine-card portrait, the Snake asks us to be silent and not share our thoughts with others. Diplomacy and tact are key to achieving any goals related to the query.

On the central position in particular, it answers a query negatively or indicates that someone could prove a threat, though this might not be obvious initially. Alternatively, we must wait for the right time to strike or make our move, and be alert to the signals around us before proceeding. Avoidance and strategic caution are paramount.

LENORMAND SNAKE: IN THE GRAND TABLEAU

In the Grand Tableau, the Snake calls for caution and advises us not to be trusting of others, regardless of distance.

It typically refers to someone dishonest, partial, or hypocritical, whom we’re better off avoiding. When near the significator, we’re more vulnerable to the Snake’s toxicity. Jealous people and hidden enemies try to compromise us, making the threat personal and immediate.

When far, the troubles may not affect us, or their severity could be lessened, suggesting the threat is distant or less personal. However, the Snake always demands caution and vigilance, so it is important to examine nearby cards.

LENORMAND SNAKE: IN SOME CARD COMBINATIONS

The Snake With The...      Means...

SNAKE + ANCHOR  Temptation to give up; best to give it another chance. A betrayal related to long-term security or commitment.

SNAKE + BIRD  Jealousy, selfishness, gossip, or plotting. Tense, deceptive communication.

SNAKE + CHILD  Easily manipulated due to immaturity. A tricky, new beginning or a deceptive child.

SNAKE + CLOUDS  Ill-will, lies, or deceit. Confusion caused by manipulation; a very tricky situation.

SNAKE + DOG  A 'frenemy', someone manipulative, or need to be roundabout with a friend.

SNAKE + GARDEN  Cunning characters in a group; an infected environment. Deceptive social networking; a tricky meeting.

SNAKE + KEY  Disarming a threat; clever management of a tricky situation. Trying a different, strategic approach.

SNAKE + MAN OR WOMAN  Someone two-faced, a charmer, a rival in love. A deceptive person.

SNAKE + RIDER  Roundabout approach, patience to achieve a goal. News of cheating; a deceptive messenger.

SNAKE + SCYTHE  Radical transformation; cannot delay changes anymore. A sudden betrayal or surgical removal of a threat.

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

SNAKE + HOUSE  A toxic or compromised living situation. Secrets being kept within the family; need for caution within the home or a group.

HOUSE + SNAKE  Moving away from a toxic place or environment. Distancing oneself from a problematic place or group.

SNAKE + ROAD  Moving ahead cautiously; taking an indirect or winding path. A deceptive path is chosen; careful maneuvering of choices.

ROAD + SNAKE  Changing directions due to a threat or betrayal. Moving away from a manipulated situation; letting go of a tricky decision.