READING LENORMAND CARDS
The Lenormand Tarot eBook includes a second layer in a form of a playing card, which has an effect on the image interpretation.
For example, the card of Mountain is showing protection or blockage. You have a choice to stay input or to go over it, gaining new insight, and new experiences on the way.
Yet the second layer, the Eight of Clubs is warning that you might be acting in haste, acting without thinking it through beforehand, which could put you in danger. But the Eight of Clubs also shows an end to some sort of delay or blockage in your life, and it is a caution, not to act in haste or impulse, but think before your next step.
MOUSE
The Meaning of Mouse with Lenormand Tarot
Element: Air
Loss, theft, opportunism.
The card is showing a loss, indicating some sort of misfortune, disaster, or illness. A certain force of extreme magnitude has come to hit you in your life - one that you may have not foreseen. The Mouse represents destructive forces, frustration, and sadness, as you can only watch your hard work go down the drain. It can indicate fatigue, annoyance, illness, and worry.
The Mouse appears in ancient mythology as Sekhmet, and in Tarot she is the Foreign Woman.
In Egyptian mythology, Ra sends the goddess Hathor, in the form of Sekhmet, the wife of Ptah, the creator god, to destroy mortals who conspired against him. Sekhmet's blood-lust was not quelled at the end of the battle and led to her destroying almost all of humanity.
So, what is the connection between the mouse, Sekmet/Hathor, and the Foreign Woman? How are they connected to the Sun Ra?
When the harvest is good, (the gift of Ra) the population of rodents gets out of control, and we can only watch our hard work going down the drain. Sekhmet and the Foreign woman have the same message. They both are the embodiment of overpopulation followed by disease and war.
The Ancient Egyptians were terrified of mice, whom they saw as the carriers of disease and destroyers of crops. They associated all rodents with the goddess Sekhmet = Sura, from Sanskrit zura i.e. lion (She was often closely associated with Hathor the goddess of joy, music, dance, sexual love, pregnancy, birth, bloodshed, cruelty), the bringer of pestilence. It is identical to the card of a Foreign woman, who is the embodiment of lust, she is a femme fatale.
The Seven of Clubs is showing Ptah, the husband of Sekhmet showing a period of success and things going your way, you learn that life is constantly changing and therefore you have to adapt to your changing circumstances.
This is a period of time when your beliefs are being challenged and you need to hold firm in the face of opposition from others. This seems to be a reminder that despite how much you try, you cannot control everything - there are things that are beyond your ability to change. Here, this situation is unavoidable. The card's element is air, which is a symbol of intellect and logic, and yet we find the final culmination of this card a complete and total defeat of the spirit and intellect by the ego.
