The complete interpretation guide for the Tarot de Marseille

The cards du tarot de Marseille


The Juggler or the Magician is the first card of the tarot de Marseille. It is part of the major arcana. Hidden Symbols of the Juggler card Summary of the Juggler’s symbols: Search for perfection, experimentation, going beyond one’s own limits. Although his illustration is a juggler, he represents the young initiate in magic. He […]

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The Popess is the second card of the tarot de Marseille. She is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Popess’s card Summary of symbols of the Pope: mystery, silence, intuition, secret. His coat is purple and blue : purple and blue are the colors of spirituality and wisdom. The image of the Great […]

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The Empress is the third card of the Marseille tarot. She is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Empress card Summary of symbols of the Empress: air, speed, intellect, superiority, perfection. Wings of the Empress are the air symbol, the mental plane, the speed of the intellect, the versatility of ideas. The crown […]

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The Emperor is the fourth card of the tarot de Marseille. He is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Emperor’s card Summary of symbols of the Emperor: governs, solid, concrete, support, stability, finite world. The Emperor sits on a cube. The cube is the most geometric form stable, and refers to number 4. […]

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The Pope is the fifth card of the tarot de Marseille. He is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Pope’s card Summary of symbols of the Pope: spiritual power, wisdom, spirit, faith, combat, good advice. The Pope is seated between two columns of the Temple of solomon. Blue and gold are its colors; […]

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The Lover is the sixth card of the tarot de Marseille. He is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Lover’s card Summary of symbols of the Lover: indecision, choice, love, Hercules, jealousy, wealth. Clothes of Lovers are from bright colors : red, green, blue, yellow. This refers to the nature of the young […]

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The Chariot is the seventh card of the tarot de Marseille. He is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Chariot card Summary of symbols du Chariot: material achievement, triumph, victory, royalty, guide. The driver seems to triumph while traveling the world. He holds the scepter of order thanks to which he captures energies […]

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Justice is the eighth card of the Marseille tarot. She is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the justice card Summary of symbols of Justice: balance, decision, fatality, reward, penalty. The face of Justice is that ofAstrea, Greek goddess of justice. His smile is large, frozen and severe. The equinoctal balance which she holds […]

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The Hermit is the ninth card of the tarot de Marseille. He is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Hermit’s card Summary of symbols of the Hermit: slowness, prudence, solitude, knowledge, mystery, contact. The walking stick on which the Hermit relies captures the instinctive energies of the universe. The Hermit knows he must […]

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The Wheel of Fortune is the tenth card in the tarot de Marseille. She is one of major arcana. Hidden Symbols of the Wheel of Fortune card Summary of symbols Wheel of Fortune: existence, fortune, movement, yin and yang, alternation, ascent, fall. The Wheel of Fortune card inspired by the vision described in the bookEzekiel […]

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Strength is the eleventh card of the Tarot de Marseille. She is one of major arcana. Hidden Force Map Symbols Summary of symbols Strength: femininity, softness, finesse, intelligence, strength. Lion is tamed by the Force, which holds it by the teeth. The Force shows us that by subtly using the force of the Lion, which […]

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The Hanged Man is the twelfth card of the Tarot of Marseille. He is one of major arcana. Hidden Symbols of the Hangman Card Summary of symbols Hangman: chance, passive and mystical initiation, punishment. The hanged man is here 12th card tarot from Marseille. It is therefore in analogy with the zodiac sign: The Fish. […]

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Death is the thirteenth card of the tarot de Marseille. She is one of major arcana. Hidden Symbols of the Death Card Summary of symbols of Death: death, rebirth, birth, initiation passage, transformation, newness. Skeleton representing Death has colored bones in pink. It represents the flesh and all that is human. The scythe, grabbed by […]

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The Devil is the fifteenth card of the tarot de Marseille. He is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Devil’s card Summary of symbols of the Devil: lack of control, domination, instinct, disorder. The Devil is represented by Baphomet des Templiers : head and legs of goats, female breasts, hairy sides. The colors […]

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The Tower also called House of God is the sixteenth card of the Tarot Marseille. She is one of major arcana. Hidden Tower Map Symbols Summary of symbols of the Tower: Tower of Babel, selfishness, ambition, uncontrolled energies. The Tower or Maison Dieu represents the Tower of Babel, a tower built out of selfishness and […]

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The star is the seventeenth card of the tarot de Marseille. She is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the star map Summary of symbols of the Star: feminine, maternity, light, softness, nature, purity. The soft and beautiful face of the young woman represents femininity and calm. The content poured by the red and […]

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The moon is the eighteenth card of the tarot de Marseille. She is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Moon map Summary of symbols of the Moon: cosmic order, legend, myth, feminine energy. A huge crab (associated with Cancer) devours the remains, weight of the past, in the water so that bad smells […]

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The Sun is the nineteenth card of the tarot de Marseille. He is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Sun card Summary of symbols of the Sun: reason, masculine principle, activity, feminine, receptivity, purity, truth, light, wealth, gold, change, stability, constancy, Mercury. The couple of twins hug tenderly with a dance step. They […]

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Judgment is the twentieth card of the tarot de Marseille. He is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the Judgment card Summary of symbols of the Judgment: truth, material, spiritual, separation, slice, assessment, reward, punishment. An angel with large wings blows in his trumpet, perched on a blue cloud. He most probably represents the […]

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The World is the twenty-first card of the tarot de Marseille. He is one of major arcana. Hidden symbols of the world card Summary of symbols of the World: time, creation, fertility, fertility. The goddess of life is represented on the world card. It is motionless in the center and represents an eternal and blazing […]

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The Fool is one of major arcana. It does not have a number, so it can be considered as first or last. Hidden Symbols of the Fool’s card Summary of The Fool’s symbols : irresponsibility, unconsciousness, passivity, irrationality, unreason. The fool obeys his irrational impulses. His multicolored coat is supplemented by a bell beret : […]

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Temperance is the 14th card of the tarot de Marseille. She is one of major arcana. Hidden Symbols of the Temperance card Summary of symbols of Temperance: universal life. Red and blue are the colors of action and mind. The angel, representing Temperance, transfers a vital fluid from one urn to another. This vital fluid […]

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