Card 17 / 36
Stork นกกระสา
- Playing card
- Q♥ Hearts
- Tone in the original text
- Favourable
- Other names
- Cigogne (FR) · Storch (DE)
Keywords
- change
- moving house
- improvement
- return
- birth
In a modern reading
Change for the better, often a move or a new phase. Storks migrate and return, so the card can also mean coming back. [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]
Près de la personne indique un changement de domicile actuel ; à distance elle marque que ce changement est retardé.
Near the person it indicates a change of the present home; at a distance it shows that this change is delayed.
As a house in the Grand Tableau
Position 17 of the Grand Tableau is the House of the Stork. A card that falls here is read in the context of change, moving house, improvement.[15][16]