Card 22 of 36 · playing card Q♦ · neutral: coloured by its neighbours
Crossroads
choice · options · a fork · alternatives
Meaning
A choice to make. The Crossroads (also called the Paths or the Way) shows two or more directions and the freedom, or burden, of deciding. It can also mean doubling: two of something, a second option.
As a person
Someone undecided, or someone with several paths open.
In combinations
First in a pair, the Crossroads names a choice or a fork in the road. Second, it describes the card before it: something that offers alternatives or must be chosen between.
- Clover + Crossroads: A lucky choice: a second option that turns out well.
- Crossroads + Key: The right choice; the solution lies in deciding.
As a house in the Grand Tableau
Position 22 is the house of the Crossroads. Choices: decisions, options and directions.
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).