Lenormand Reader’s

GUIDE TO THE
DIAMOND LAYOUT

Master Guide
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 INTRODUCTION

When I was planning for the 2020 monthly horoscope

readings on Lenormand Reader’s YouTube channel, I
surveyed my community about what they’d like to see, and
the majority voted that I use a new layout, so I came up with
the Diamond.

Though someone must have tried it somewhere in the

world, I haven’t seen the Diamond layout anywhere.

The Diamond is a Tableau-style layout because its cards can

be read horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. It comes in
three versions and the medium and large Diamonds offer
quite a bit of detail, like the nine-card portrait and
Hourglass.

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 SENTENCES VS
STRUCTURES
I want to introduce you to the concepts of sentences and
structures because they’ll come up in how we interpret the
Diamond.

A sentence is a string of two or more adjacent cards,

whereas a structure is a string of two or more cards that are
not adjacent.

In a Lenormand layout whose configuration allows it, we can

connect cards that are not adjacent and interpret them in
combinations. Discovering these kinds of connections
makes a Lenormand reading juicy with details and secrets!

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 SHUFFLING AND
DEALING
You can shuffle and deal the cards anyway you like as long as
the cards are well mixed up and there’s no bias from a
previous layout.

The order of the cards in the Diamond and its versions are
my suggestions. Feel free to layout the cards in a way that
makes sense to you.

I’ve also suggested how the different sentences and

structures can be interpreted, but also feel free to make
sense of them in a way that resonates with you.

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DIAMOND
In a small Diamond, we have just one card in the middle,
and four cards around it. It’s the same as a simple cross,
which is also an augmented line of three (I talk about these
in detail in the Handbook and the LLIT).

The mini Diamond is very similar to a small Hourglass - just

configured as a diamond. So I offer you similar ways to
interpret its lines, but again, feel free to adapt or change
them in a way that resonates with you.

You might like to use a signifier (see pg. 17) to represent the
theme or issue at hand, and place it at the center of the
Diamond, at card 2.

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DIAMOND

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DIAMOND
Note. Decide beforehand which card will indicate the
outcome - if any. It can be card 2 because it’s in the center, or
card 3 because it’s in the future position, or any other
sentence that you feel captures the outcome.

➤ Card 2: Key theme and/or the present.

➤ Cards 1+2+3: The story unfolding, possibly from past to

future if you read card 1 as the past and card 3 as the future.

➤ Cards 4+2+5: The story unfolding, possibly from intention

to manifestation if you read card 4 as aspiration and card 5
as manifestation.

➤ Cards 1+4+3+5 (diamond): What surrounds the situation,

the forces acting on it.

➤ Cards 1+2+3 and 4+1+5 (cross): Puts the whole reading

together.

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 MEDIUM
DIAMOND
The medium Diamond has four additional cards, and the
way it’s laid out makes its sentences and structures a little
different from the small and large Diamonds.

I find that overlapping the cards slightly as they’re laid out is

more aesthetically appealing with this version of the
Diamond.

You can also use a signifier and place it at card 2. For the
2020 monthly reading, I opted to place all three monthly
Astroclock cards as the middle line of this Diamond, and
draw the rest of the cards to get deeper insights into the
month.

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DIAMOND

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DIAMOND
Note. Decide beforehand which card will indicate the
outcome - if any. It can be card 2 because it’s in the center,
card 3 because it’s in the future position, or any other
sentence or structure that you feel captures the outcome.

➤ Card 2: Key theme and/or the present.

➤ Cards 1+2+3: The story unfolding, possibly from past to

future if you read card 1 as the past and card 3 as the future.

➤ Card 8: Aspiration, ambition, highest potential.

➤ Cards 4+5: Intentions, goals, focus for the coming phase.

➤ Card 9: Foundation or root of the issue.

➤ Cards 6+7: Actions, next steps.

➤ Cards 8+2+9: Keys to manifesting ambitions, or how to tap

into foundations to manifest ambitions.

➤ Cards 4+5+6+7 (square): What surrounds the situation, the

forces acting on it.

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 MEDIUM
DIAMOND
➤ Diagonal 4+2+7: Key details and/or advice.

➤ Diagonal 6+2+5: Key details and/or advice.

➤ Cards 1+2+3 and 8+2+9 (cross): Put the key storylines

together.

Many arrows can be read to connect the levels:

➤ Cards 4+8+5 might suggest how to formulate ambitions

into goals.

➤ Cards 1+4+2 and 2+5+3 might suggest how intentions

manifest into the story.

➤ Cards 6+9+7 might suggest what actions can be taken to

build on the foundation or to resolve the issue.

➤ Cards 1+6+2 and 2+7+3 might suggest how actions

manifest into the story.

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 LARGE
DIAMOND
There are four more cards in the large Diamond, or eight
more than in the small version, so there are many more
sentences and structures that we can read.

As with any layout, I’m proposing here my order for laying

out the cards and my approach for interpreting the
sentences and structures, but you might like to do things
differently.

As with the other two versions, you might like to place a

signifier at the center of the Diamond.

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DIAMOND

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DIAMOND
Note. Decide beforehand which card(s) will indicate the
outcome - if any. It can be card 2 because it’s in the center,
cards 4+5 because they’re in the future position, or any other
sentence or structure that you feel captures the outcome.

➤ Card 3: Key theme and/or the present.

➤ Cards 1+2+3+4+5: Key storyline, possibly unfolding from

past to future if you read cards 1+2 as the past and cards 4+5
as the future.

➤ Cards 6+7+3+8+9: Key storyline, possibly unfolding from

intention to manifestation if you read cards 6+7 as aspiration
and cards 8+9 as manifestation.

➤ Cards 1+2+3+4+5 and 6+7+3+8+9 (cross): Putting the key

storylines together.

➤ Cards 2+7+4+8 (inner diamond): The hidden influences on

the situation.

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 LARGE
DIAMOND
➤ Cards 1+10+6+11+5+13+9+12 (outer diamond): What
surrounds the situation, the forces acting on it. Can also give
more details about the visible aspects of the outcome.

➤ Cards 10+7+11+4+13+8+12+2 (square): Transition from inner

intentions to outer manifestation, keys to manifesting
desired outcomes, especially the corner cards 10, 11, 13, and
12.

➤ Diagonal 10+3+13: Key details and/or advice.

➤ Diagonal 12+3+11: Key details and/or advice.

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 USING
SIGNIFIERS

You can consciously select the central card of your chosen

Diamond to represent the issue at hand. This consciously
selected card is called a signifier and it’s selected based on
the topic or issue it represents.

You’d pull it out of the deck and place it (usually) at the

center of your layout, then shuffle the deck and draw the
rest of the cards randomly.

You can learn about signifiers in detail in Lenormand

Reader’s Master Guides or Master Courses.`

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