Tarot

Tarot of Marseille

The Tarot de Marseille designates a family of decks with a recognizable iconography, not a single invariable drawing. The complete tarot includes majors and cards from four suits. This website's application uses a variant of 22 major arcana, with upright or reversed cards.

How it is structured

In the usual numbering of this family, Justice is VIII and Strength XI. The numbered cards of the suits mainly show their emblems and arrangement, unlike the narrative scenes of the Rider-Waite-Smith. It is advisable to separate the characteristics of the family from the specific selection available in the application.

Useful distinctions

The orientation can add nuances of tension, resistance, or expression of a quality, depending on the reading. It is not equivalent to classifying all cards as good and bad. Observe posture, gaze, and relationship between images before automatically transferring meanings from another deck.

A practical example

With The Magician upright, The Hanged Man reversed, and Temperance upright, an initiative can encounter a pause lived as resistance and an invitation to adjust the rhythm. The example relates orientation and set; it does not turn the reversal into a negative outcome.

Bring it into your reading

What changes with the orientation and what does the card continue to contribute to the question?

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