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Garden

Garden — Lenormand card illustration

Meaning

The public, and the querent's place in it. The Garden is where people gather — events, networks, social circles, the community and the public eye. It covers meeting others, being among them, and anything that happens in the open rather than in private.

It also carries a lighter social sense: enjoyment in company, the pleasure of being out.

The tone is open and mildly positive. The Garden's caution is exposure — what happens here is seen, which matters when the neighbouring cards are ones the querent would rather keep quiet.

Beside other cards

Usually the modifier, making its neighbour public or social. Garden + Letter is a public announcement. Garden + Fox is dishonesty in a social circle. Beside Tower, read as public versus institutional, or public versus alone.