Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: Marseilles Tarot published by Lo Scarabeo.
This deck is included in the Total Tarot Course, in magazine numbers 8 and 9 providing The Marseilles Mystery Spread in issue 8.
The Marseilles deck provides the template for our well known recent decks having originated in Renaissance Italy and moved to Marseilles in France. Soldiers from Milan are thought to have travelled with the deck as playing cards when images were engraved on wood for printing, hence the lined images. Their use for divination is much later.
22 Major Arcana illustrated cards and 56 Minor Arcana unillustrated (pip) cards comprise this 78 card deck. Odd numbered cards are active and masculine and even numbered cards are reflective and feminine. Numbering, suits of cups, pentacles, wands and swords, eight major colours, and images have special meaning.
These are beautifully designed cards that connect not just with the past but with the present time. I enjoy working with traditional images.
Reviewer Wendy Stokes https://wendystokes.co.uk
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