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Anchor

Security comes when something (or someone) is safely tied down. Any drifting stops. Any departure stops. A good lifelong marriage can be an anchor. So can a good lifetime career with the same company.
Permanent anchor or temporary anchor? That is an interesting question that comes with this card. Vessels have both. They can be rarely moved – or moved often – going from one place to another.

Heavy Hooks

An anchor is a heavy hook, weighed down, in order to safely hold what is there. A heavy mortgage can be the hook for a couple to anchor in a home together. The repayments, the investment and the threat of loss (should the couple separate) keep them firmly attached. With this card, you need to ask who, or what, holds a situation.

Does it feel too heavy, for example? Or is the sheer depth and weight of circumstance, offer comfort and reassurance? Life can be stormy, wild and unpredictable. Yet, a big anchor can moor us. We dig in. No jerk or jolt out there can disrupt us too much.

Even an 82 ton boat in strong currents, can be secured with a 1.5 ton anchor.

The earliest anchors were probably rocks. People talk about a partner or family member being ‘my rock’ for example. It really depends on your point of view. One can feel shackled by an anchor. It can feel like a deadweight. Too heavily tied down. Some people are drifters. They prefer no ties. They want the freedom, space and independence.



Charts and Maps

Successful anchoring is based on research. Charts and maps. Perhaps, an astrological chart to help. Certainly, knowledge of where to place the anchor for the best results – and when. Random ‘anchoring’ may be too risky. Potential dangers, the tides of time and the conditions out there all have to be carefully understood in order for secure mooring.

Whose Responsibility?

With this card, you also need to ask who the skipper might be, or the crew. Or is a professional being paid, to organise the anchoring?

It’s true that an anchor can fail. It can be dragged; it fails to hold against the conditions out there.

A cable can break or the anchor itself might not be clean enough. You can see why this card opens up important issues about who does what, and how well it is done. Nobody wants a situation to be wrecked.

Anchors in Defence

Anchors Aweigh, is the fight song of the United States Naval Academy. The US Navy marches to it.

To ‘weigh anchor’ means to prepare a ship before she starts her journey. There is a great deal of preparation suggested by this card in the Modern Lenormand Oracle.

It may be, to defend. To fight. To go forth and conquer, or take. Weighing anchor means raising it. It is stowed on board and then the journey begins.

So, if there is a temporary anchor in your situation, it may be because what you have here is a highly defensive organisation, or some kind of defence in a relationship – or maybe an ambitious, colonising, questing entity.
When the anchor no longer touches the bottom of the sea bed, the ship is aweigh. From this, we have ‘away’. Going away, moving away – to defend or attack. This is the mobile kind of anchoring that can come with this card, but while the vessel is moored, in between journeys, she is still secure.