Is the broken lighter considered an omen

A broken lighter isn't a position tarot gives meaning to, and the honest answer is that the omen is probably being supplied by the noticing — but the card is worth looking at anyway.

Current guidance: The Fool, reversed.

Reversed Fool here is the leap made without ground under it: seeing a pattern where there is only an event. A lighter that stops lighting is a fact about a lighter. The moment it becomes "a sign" is the moment you add meaning it wasn't carrying, and that's the actual movement the card names — not bad luck, but your own hand reaching for significance. Reversed Fool can also read as the opposite habit: refusing to act until some small broken thing gets interpreted properly.

Two conditions, because the same object reads two ways:

• If it broke while you were using it — cold, ran out of fluid, a worn wheel — then the reversed Fool points at the reading you built on top. The event carries no further instruction.
• If it sat unused for a while and failed anyway — that's a different animal. Not prophecy, but a small honest signal that things left alone degrade quietly, and it's worth checking whether there's something else in the same drawer with the same problem.

The thing that settles this is the lighter itself, not the cards: find out *when* it broke and *how*. Check the date stamped on the base, whether it was working last time you reached for it, and whether anything else in that drawer has the same fault. If the answer is "worn out in use," you have your answer. If it's "failed sitting still," you have a different one — a small pattern to look for elsewhere, not a warning.

I'd hold off on the omen until you've read the object. Want this kept in your journal, or drawn as a picture?