Card 12 / 36
Birds นก
- Playing card
- 7♦ Diamonds
- Tone in the original text
- Depends on position
- Other names
- Oiseaux (FR) · Vögel (DE)
Keywords
- conversation
- chatter
- nerves
- a couple
- short trips
In a modern reading
Talk, phone calls, gossip and the nervous excitement that comes with them. Two birds also suggest a pair or a couple. [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 des peines que l'on aura à supporter mais de peu de durée. Loin de la personne cette carte est le signe d'un heureux voyage.
Signifies troubles one must bear, but of short duration. Far from the person this card is the sign of a happy journey.
As a house in the Grand Tableau
Position 12 of the Grand Tableau is the House of the Birds. A card that falls here is read in the context of conversation, chatter, nerves.[15][16]