Lenormand Reader’s

Master Guide

GUIDE TO THE HOURGLASS LAYOUT

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I came up with the Hourglass layout in late 2018 to change

up the portrait spread that I was using up to that time for

the monthly horoscope readings.

I came across simplified versions of the Hourglass through

other Lenormand resources, and tweaked it to

accommodate the three Astroclock cards into the middle

row.

Like most multi-line Lenormand layouts, it’s possible to

combine the cards in many different ways. Such is the joy

and fun from reading Lenormand!

In this guide, I cover three versions of the Hourglass: Small,

medium, and large. The large Hourglass is the one you see in

my 2019 monthly forecast videos.

INTRODUCTION

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I want to introduce you to the concepts of sentences and

structures because they’ll come up in how we interpret the

Hourglass.

A sentence is a string of two or more adjacent cards,

whereas a structure is a string of two or more cards that are

not adjacent.

In a Lenormand layout whose configuration allows it, we can

connect cards that are not adjacent and interpret them in

combinations. Discovering these kinds of connections

makes a Lenormand reading juicy with details and secrets!

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SENTENCES VS STRUCTURES

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You can shuffle and deal the cards anyway you like as long

as the cards are well mixed up and there’s no bias from a

previous layout.

The order of the cards in the Hourglass versions starting on

the next page are my suggestions. Feel free to layout the

cards in a way that makes sense to you.

I’ve also suggested how the different sentences and

structures can be interpreted, but also feel free to make

sense of them in a way that resonates with you.

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SHUFFLING AND DEALING

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In a small Hourglass, we have just one card in the middle.

But it nevertheless produces 6 two-card sentences!

I offer you my suggestions to interpret these pairs, but feel

free to come up with your own approach.

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SMALLHOURGLASS

My suggestions for reading the cards and lines:

➤ Card 1: Key theme, and/or the present.

➤ Cards 2+3: Story details, and/or intentions.

➤ Cards 4+5: Story details, and/or actions.

➤ Cards 2+4: Story details, and/or the past.

➤ Cards 3+5: Story details, and/or the future.

➤ Cards 2+1+5: Key details, and/or manifesting intentions.

➤ Cards 4+1+3: Key details, and/or aspirations.

More ways cards can be combined:

➤ Cards 2+3+4+5 (or 2+5+3+4): What surrounds the situation,

circumstances of the query.

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SMALLHOURGLASS

In the medium Hourglass, we have 2 cards in the middle

line, and this produces at 9 sentences as well as more card

structures if you’d like to incorporate them in your

interpretation.

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MEDIUMHOURGLASS

My suggestion for reading the cards and lines:

➤ Cards 1+2: Key theme(s).

➤ Cards 3+4+5: Key story details, or intentions.

➤ Cards 6+7+8: Key story details, or actions.

➤ Cards 3+6: Story details, or the past.

➤ Cards 4+7: Story details, or the present.

➤ Cards 5+8: Story details, or the future.

➤ Cards 3+1+7 and cards 6+1+4: Key details, past lessons,

what can built on.

➤ Cards 4+2+8 and cards 7+2+5: Key details, future

opportunities, what can be achieved.

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MEDIUMHOURGLASS

More ways cards can be combined:

➤ Cards 3+5+6+8 (or 3+8+5+6): What surrounds the situation,

circumstances of the query.

➤ Cards 3+7+5: What is coming into being, what is

manifesting.

➤ Cards 6+4+8: What is aligning with your higher self,

spiritual growth.

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MEDIUMHOURGLASS

In the large Hourglass, we have 3 cards in the middle line,

and this produces many sentences and structures. See

which ones you’d like to incorporate in your practice.

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LARGEHOURGLASS

My suggestions for reading the cards and lines:

➤ Cards 1+2+3: Key theme(s) of the reading.

➤ Cards 4+5+6+7: Key story details, or intentions.

➤ Cards 8+9+10+11: Key story details, or actions.

➤ Cards 4+8, 5+9, 6+10, and 7+11 : Story details.

➤ Card 1: Key theme of the past.

➤ Cards 4+1+9 and 8+1+5: Key details of the past.

➤ Card 2: Key theme of the present.

➤ Cards 5+2+10 and 9+2+6: Key details of the present and

actions.

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LARGEHOURGLASS

➤ Card 3: Key theme of the future.

➤ Cards 6+3+11 and 10+3+7: Key details of the future and

outcome.

More ways cards can be combined:

➤ Cards 4+7+8+11 (or 4+11+7+8): What surrounds the

situation, circumstances of the query.

➤ Cards 4+9+6 and 5+10+7: What is coming into being, what

is manifesting.

➤ Cards 8+5+10 and 9+6+11: What is aligning with your

higher self, spiritual growth.

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LARGEHOURGLASS

In the same way that I consciously place the Astroclock

cards in the middle line of the large Hourglass, you can

consciously select the middle card(s) of your chosen

Hourglass to represent the issue.

These consciously selected cards are called signifiers and

they’re selected based on the topic they represent.

You can learn about how signifiers are used in detail in

Lenormand Reader’s Handbook Of Layouts or use the

for a detailed explanation of the

cards.

USINGSIGNIFIERS

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