Card 7 / 36
Snake งู
- Playing card
- Q♣ Clubs
- Tone in the original text
- Unfavourable
- Other names
- Serpent (FR) · Schlange (DE)
Keywords
- complication
- deceit
- desire
- a detour
- a rival
In a modern reading
Twists, complications and hidden motives. The Snake can be a cunning rival or simply a winding road; it also stands for skill and strategy. [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]
Est un signe de malheur qui se règle selon que la carte est proche ou loin de la personne, mais elle amène toujours à sa suite hypocrisie, trahison et perte.
A sign of misfortune whose strength depends on whether the card is near or far from the person, but it always brings hypocrisy, betrayal and loss in its wake.
As a house in the Grand Tableau
Position 7 of the Grand Tableau is the House of the Snake. A card that falls here is read in the context of complication, deceit, desire.[15][16]