The Clover

Clover · No. 2 · Playing card ♦6 · Luck, small joys, opportunity

The card

A clover growing in the grass. The composition is light, with plenty of space and nothing threatening in it.

Traditional meaning

Traditionally the Clover is small luck: good fortune arrives, but it is modest and it does not last — a piece of brief good news.

How to read it

The Clover is the lightest positive card in the deck, and the weight is on "small" and "short". It answers "is it worth a try" — usually yes, but do not mistake it for a guarantee. It also covers gambling, chancing it, and passing opportunities.

In context

Love

Easy, cheerful time together and small surprises. The sweetness of an early relationship, before commitment enters.

Work

A small stroke of luck: a short-term opening, an unexpectedly smooth run, getting away with something once.

Timing

Very soon, within days — and the effect lasts about as long.

Common combinations

Lenormand meanings were first written down in the instruction sheet issued around 1846 by Philippe Lenormand, heir of Marie-Anne Lenormand, and that sheet has long been in the public domain. The "Traditional meaning" section here describes the classical reading handed down from that line, in our own words — it is not a verbatim quotation of the sheet. Card images are public-domain scans of Das Spiel der Hoffnung (1799).