dancing_moon
Dancing_moon, this is also super helpful, particularly the highlighted. One of the things I love about Tarot (and PCO) is just that experience of connecting the dots and filling in the gaps with free association. I think I'm still not ready for the fixity required by Lenormand. At least it feels like fixity to my inexperienced eye. And your comment about "they just wouldn't budge" is very resonant. I feel like I'm up against a bit of wall. Which is, of course, my own obtuseness lol.
Interesting that you comment about Lenormand being for 'down-to-earth' matters as this is not one of my strong points. I work hard to keep all those details straight. I can do it fairly well but it's an effort. So perhaps I need to go a lot slower here.
Lenormand has become very rewarding to me when I stopped treating it like poetry and focused on the maths of it. In a way, it's almost like deciphering a message written in a foreign language: you know what each word is supposed to mean, and you try to reconstruct a coherent phrase. If you try to 'cheat' and go Humpty-Dumpty way, it'll simply fall apart and won't make any sense.
You can say it's fixity, but this very 'fixitiness' makes it more precise and factual than Tarot, IMHO. Anyhow, worth a few more tries for sure.