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Stork

The Stork card in The Modern Lenormand Oracle, is always about parents and children. It can obviously show a baby on the way. If you ask ‘What will happen in the first year of our marriage?’ you are being shown your future pregnancy.

The link between storks, infants, mothers and fathers goes back to Ancient Greece and Rome.

There is also a second story with Stork; it is about children caring for parents, just as their parents once cared for them.

A Greek law called Pelargonia, from the ancient word for stork (Pelargos) required children to look after their parents in old age.

This card may answer your question, then, very directly. If you ask ‘What is the most important thing about next year?’ you will be told; being as compassionate and thoughtful with your mother or father, as they once were with you – or nurturing a baby or child.

Hans Christian Andersen

It was Hans Christian Anderson in 1839 who popularised the link between storks and new babies.

Storks found them, according to German folklore, and carried them in their beaks, or on their backs.

This is where the famous 20th century greeting card designs come from – the stork flying high with a baby in a knotted cloth, in its beak.

The children were then given to their mother, by the stork (in the stories) or dropped down the chimney!

Birthmarks on the heads of new babies are called ‘stork bites’. That bright red mark on the back of the neck, is where tradition says, the stork’s beak left its mark.

Fidelity and Monogamy

Storks have always been seen as faithful, or at least serially monogamous to each other. They are linked to doting parenthood.

Their nests are prominent, as are they. Storks have always been quite a sight in village and town skies, along with their homes. They advertise their parenting and their offspring.

They have an elaborate mating dance; much like human dating.

The nesting instinct is connected to storks.

Their affection for the young – their kindness to small storks – is even noted in the Bible.

Questions and Answers

If you are interviewing potential staff for a new position and want to know what their number one priority is – Stork will tell you – having a baby. That may in fact be worth checking at the interview stage.

Nesting is also a possible answer here. If you ask, ‘What will buying this apartment bring me over the next five years?’ then the answer is, building a space for your own or other people’s children. Look at one room as a potential nursery.

Storks are about co-parenting.

Their nest is built by both sexes, often on rooftops and chimneys, so a small home, above a human home. The eggs are incubated by both parents, unusually.

If you’re a politician and want to know what the most popular election issue will be – you guessed it – you are looking at the family vote; childcare funding, maternity leave, real-estate and so on.