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Tarot de Marseilles Explained

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By Prosperity66


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Making Tarots Cards Accessible

I have been a fortune teller for a while and I really enjoyed and loved it. I do not practice any more actively but, occasionally, I still read the cards for my friends.

While making a search in the Internet, I noticed that it is very difficult for an amateur, a beginner or a more advanced eager to learn more and/or have free information about tarot cards reading.

Being a good fortune teller can be a lucrative and interesting job. By being a good fortune teller, you have the opportunity to earn a lot of money while working at home.

You also do not have to invest a lot of money in our business: a table, two chairs, a tarot cards deck, some candles, incense... that's it!

On the other hand, having the basic knowledge of the tarot cards meaning can be very interesting especially if you want to learn more about your future without having to pay $ 75 up to $300 for a consultation with a professional.

Also, it is interesting if you plan to use the tarot cards quite often; for instance, if you want to know how will be your day or a date, etc.

That is why I create this page: to give anyone interested in the Tarot de Marseilles cards - or any other tarot card play - the opportunity to "look at the product" before buying.

If you are interested in tarot cards reading, then this page will be your guide.




The Tarot de Marseilles Cards

Briefly explained, the Tarot de Marseilles is a card deck in which the cards are called "arcanas" and composed of 78 Arcanas (or slides): 22 major arcanas (that are mainly used) and 56 minor arcanas (that are used in addition to the major arcanas in games that fall into more details).

Both the major and minor arcanas are numbered.

Below is the list of the major arcanas:

  1. The Magician
  2. The High Priestess
  3. The Empress
  4. The Emperor
  5. The Pope
  6. The Lovers
  7. The Chariot
  8. Justice
  9. The Hermit
  10. The Wheel of Fortune
  11. Strength
  12. The Hanged Man
  13. Death (or The No Name Arcana)
  14. Temperance
  15. The Devil
  16. The Tower
  17. The Star
  18. The Moon
  19. The Sun
  20. Judgement
  21. The World
  22. The Fool

Regarding the minor arcana, they are divided in four suits that can be associated with figures of our traditional card games:

  1. Spears (Diamonds)

  2. Cups (Hearts)

  3. Coins (Clubs)

  4. Swords (Spade)

Each suit includes 14 arcanas (1 to 10, Page, Knight, Queen and King).



The Tarot Cards Meaning

There are two types of cards interpretation: in the right position (top up) that gives a positive interpretation and the reverse position (top to bottom) that gives a negative interpretation.

Here are some basic explanations that will allow you an insight into the meaning of the cards and their effect on certain areas (1 star for low and 3 stars for excellent).

The Magician:

  • Up: beginning of a relationship, new job, good luck
  • Down: failure, lack of selfconfidence
  • Finances, Professional, Health, Spirituality: 2 stars
  • Love: 3 stars

The High Priestess:

  • Up: patience, wisdom, a woman, a wife, a mother

  • Down: lack of knowledge, superficiality

  • Love, Finances, Professional: 1 star
  • Health: 2 stars
  • Spirituality: 3 stars

The Empress:

  • Up: success, energy, happiness

  • Down: ennemy, weakness, disagreement

  • Love, Professional: 3 stars
  • Finances, Health, Spirituality: 2 stars

The Emperor:

  • Up: selfconfidence, power, domination

  • Down: arrogance, laziness

  • Love, Health: 1 star
  • Professional: 2 stars

  • Finances: 3 stars

The Pope:

  • Up: kindness, respectability, generosity

  • Down: conservatism, cowardice

  • Spirituality:3 stars

  • Health, Professional: 2 stars

  • Love, Finances: 1 star

The Lovers:

  • Up: indecision, temptations, waiting

  • Down:rupture, selfishness, depression

  • Love, Health, Spirituality: 1 star

The Chariot:

  • Up:success, triumph, travel

  • Down:failure, confusion

  • Finances, Professional: 3 stars

  • Health, Spirituality: 2 stars

  • Love:1 star

Justice:

  • Up: balance, good decisions, common sense
  • Down: incorrection, prejudice, hypocrisy

  • Finances, Professional: 2 stars

  • Love, Health, Spirituality: 1 star

The Hermit:

  • Up: protection, isolation, misanthropy

  • Down: selfishness, pessimism

  • Spirituality: 3 stars

The Wheel Of Fortune:

  • Up: chance, opportunities, positive changes
  • Down: failure, instability, blocking

  • Finances, Professional: 3 stars

  • Love, Health, Spirituality: 2 stars

Strength:

  • Up: power, domination, success

  • Down: meanness, tyranny, sterility

  • Health: 3 stars

  • Love, Professional, Finances, Spirituality: 2 stars



The Hanged Man:

  • Up: waiting, failure

  • Down: sacrifice, egocentrism, anguish

  • Spirituality: 3 stars

The Death:

  • Up: transormation, the end of something, failure
  • Down: accident, blocking, disappointment
  • Spirituality: 2 stars

Temperance:

  • Up: harmony, balance, friendship, communication
  • Down: disorder, apathy, disagreement

  • Love, Finances, Professional, Health, Spirituality: 2 stars

The Devil:

  • Up: domination, sex, immorality

  • Down: punishment, vice, virus

  • Finances: 2 star
  • Love, Professional: 1 star

The Tower:

  • Up: warning, conflict, difficulties

  • Down: chocking, submission

  • Spirituality: 2 stars

The Star:

  • Up: happiness, balance, opportunities
  • Down: pessimism, mistakes, misfortune
  • Love, Spirituality: 3 stars
  • Finances, Professional, Health: 2 stars

The Moon:

  • Up: danger, illusions, nightmare

  • Down: masochism, disorder, jealousy

  • Professional, Spirituality: 2 stars

  • Love, Health: 1 star

The Sun:

  • Up: happiness, love, accomplishment,

  • Down: success delayed, vanity, banality
  • Love, Finances, Professional: 3 stars

  • Health: 2 stars

  • Spirituality: 1 star

The Judgement:

  • Up: positive changes, resurrection, success

  • Down: prostration, conflict, turmoil
  • Love, Finances, Professional: 3 stars
  • Health, Spirituality: 2 stars

The World:

  • Up: happy events, victory, development
  • Down: stagnation, dispersion, hostility
  • Finances, Professional, Spirituality: 3 stars

  • Love: 2 stars

  • Health: 1 star

The Fool:

  • Up: confusion, extravagance, leak

  • Down: heedlessness, exhibitionnism

  • Spirituality: 1 star


I will not walk you through the minor arcanas details as it would take too long. The details will be available on the main site within some days...

But what you read here will help you to practice a simple draw (see picture).

Example:

Think about what you want to learn from the cards, ask your question, shuffle the cards, cut the play (with the left hand), spread the cards and select four cards.

Put one card on the left, the second on the right, the third one at the top and the last one at the bottom.

You can interpret this draw like this:

  • Card on the left: positive
  • Card on the right: negative
  • Top card: you and your question
  • Bottom card: the answer.

The card in the center is "the synthesis". In order to obtain the synthesis, you just have to add the cards drawn such as: The Magician (=1) + The Tower (=16) + The Sun (=19) + The High Priestess (=2), the result is: 38.

3 + 8 = 11, so the synthesis is 11: The Strength.

Good luck and thank you very much for your visit :)

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Lyn Bell  says:
2 years ago

A great place to refer back to. Thanks for posting these details. It's always fascinated me:)

Amanda  says:
2 years ago

Thanks, this was the only site that had used the exact cards i have to explain how to use them. thanks again!!!

Prosperity66  says:
2 years ago

Thanks a lot for your kind comments!

Degard  says:
5 months ago

Greetings,

I wished to tell you that your post is quite valuable and I love the fact that you kept it short. I'm not a professional and it's hard for me to find reliable information about this.

I learned with the Rider Waite deck and later on I got a Marseilles deck but I've found it really difficult to apply my previous knowledge to this new deck with the minor arcana specifically. The issue at hand is the fact that, as the Rider Waite can have an Up and Down, Marseilles minor arcana don't appear to have any of that.

Would you be kind enough to help me on this and teach me an effective way of reading the Marseilles minor arcana?

Thank you in advance,

Mafer Degard

Prosperity66  says:
5 months ago

Teaching the tarots takes a lot of time. However, I created two additional lenses related to how to read the tarot cards spreads, the best spreads, the minor arcana. I would have liked to make Hubpages on those subjects as well unfortunately, they don't allow duplicate content. While the examples could be different, the main thought of tarot and its language is limited and would be the same.

Regarding up and down. Well Tarot de Marseilles can have ups and downs as well but fortune-tellers realized that spreads are more accurate when they don't pay attention to up and down. We have positive placement and negative placement with the actual meaning of the card and the cards next to the one we read that influences its meaning as well. That's enough to get a really accurate reading.

More info on http://www.squidoo.com/thefortuneteller (this points to 2 additional how to lenses)

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