# Marseille Tarot Deck

> Seventy-eight woodblock-bright cards in the true Marseille pattern, redrawn by hand from a nineteenth-century block set. Pip-only minors and plain titles leave the meaning to you.

Price: 32.00 USD · in stock

## About
A candle, a cleared table, and a deck that asks you to do the seeing yourself. These are seventy-eight cards, woodblock-bright and unshaded, printed in the flat reds, yellows and blues that mark the true Marseille pattern.The Tarot de Marseille takes its name from the French port city where, by the seventeenth century, printers had standardized this woodblock style across dozens of workshops; long before tarot meant fortune-telling parlors, these were ordinary playing cards. The Major Arcana carry their old titles in plain type along the border, and the Minor Arcana show only pips, with no painted scene to interpret on your behalf. Folklore holds that this pushes a reader back onto intuition. This edition is redrawn by hand from a nineteenth-century Marseille block set, so the linework keeps its slight woodcut irregularity.DetailsCards: 78, Major and Minor Arcana, with pip-only minorsStock: Matte and slightly toothy, made to be shuffled for yearsBox: Two-piece box of unbleached card, stamped in a single colorBooklet: Upright meanings only; reversals are left to the readerHow to useShuffle with both hands until the deck feels loose rather than stiff, then cut it into three piles before drawing. Over time, let the pips build their own vocabulary in your hands.A deck for people who like their symbols a little unfinished.