The Woman is card number 29 of the Petit Lenormand, the thirty-six card deck read in the nineteenth-century French cartomantic tradition that took its name, after her death in 1843, from the Parisian fortune-teller Marie Anne Lenormand.
Image, meaning and playing card
The card shows a standing woman. In the tradition its core sense is the female querent, or a significant woman in the reading; a person card rather than an event.
Like every card in the deck it also carries an inset playing card, here the Ace of Spades, a survival of the ordinary piquet pack over which the pictorial Lenormand was laid. Lenormand cards are read less as standing symbols than in combination, each modifying the cards to either side, so that the woman takes much of its final meaning from its neighbours in the line or the Grand Tableau.
In the original German tradition the card is Die Dame, the woman, and, together with Der Herr (the Man), it is one of the two cards ordinarily reserved as a significator standing for the person the reading concerns rather than for an event or quality in the way the other thirty-four cards function. As House 29 in the Grand Tableau, a card other than Woman herself landing in that numbered position is read as touching on the female querent or on a woman generally relevant to the question. When Woman appears near Man in a spread, the two are conventionally read together as describing the relationship between them, each card's neighbours describing what each person brings to it.