Lenormand card 15, Bear (Ours), French edition c. 1895–1901
OURS · Geûens-Sea, Bruges · BnF

Card 15 / 36

Bear หมี

Playing card
10♣ Clubs
Tone in the original text
Depends on position
Other names
Ours (FR) · Bär (DE)

Keywords

  • strength
  • authority
  • protection
  • resources
  • envy

In a modern reading

Power, size and strength: a boss, a protector or a large reserve of money. The same strength can turn into pressure or dominance. [13][14][11]

Text on the 19th-century card

Printed on a French Petit Lenormand (Geûens-Sea, Bruges, c. 1895–1901), Bibliothèque nationale de France [1]

Signifie bonheur, et nous avertit en même temps qu'il faut éviter la société et surtout la conversation des personnes envieuses.

Original French

Signifies happiness, and at the same time warns us to avoid the company, and above all the conversation, of envious people.

Translation

As a house in the Grand Tableau

Position 15 of the Grand Tableau is the House of the Bear. A card that falls here is read in the context of strength, authority, protection.[15][16]