Scryway

Card 9 of 36 · playing card Q♠ · a favourable card

Bouquet

gift · pleasure · appreciation · an invitation

Meaning

A gift, a pleasant surprise, thanks or an invitation. The Bouquet makes things nicer: charm, beauty, a compliment, a social occasion. It suggests that good will is being shown, and that it is worth accepting graciously.

As a person

Someone charming, generous or attractive.

In combinations

First in a pair, the Bouquet names a gift, an invitation or a kindness. Second, it describes the card before it: something that is pleasant, welcome or offered as a gift.

  • Bouquet + Garden: An invitation to a party or a public event.

As a house in the Grand Tableau

Position 9 is the house of the Bouquet. Pleasures: gifts, beauty, invitations and appreciation.

Written for Scryway from modern Lenormand practice. Card pictures: Petit Lenormand printed by Geens-Seaux, Bruges, c. 1895–1901. Bibliothèque nationale de France, public domain (via Wikimedia Commons).