Tag Archives: Tarot de Marseille

Reading with full deck vs trumps (majors) only

The question was whether reading with full deck or major arcana is more effective and why. I used full deck to see what each method offers.

Row 1 (nature of reading with a full deck) seems to be a precisely powerful unifying balanced approach that keeps me interested and reading well .
Row 2 (nature of reading with trumps only) seems to tilt the scales a bit, wouldn’t you say? But of course it too is super charged with all these swords ⚔️ 🗡. Maybe a bit too charged for my taste.

Thanks to Wilfried Houdouin and Yves Reynaud for this fantastic Tarot de Marseille Millennium deck. It never disappoints and it is so pleasant to look at and work with. Link http://tarot-de-marseille-heritage.com/english/catalogue_millennium2017.html

Friends of the whales

To help our whale friends (and because we could) we messed with the whalers and fooled them.

We appeared as a bolt from the blue and outsmarted them, we cut their virtual nets and got out intact.

Together, as a team, we taunted them, drove them mad and thus we threw magic seeds into their souls, on a good soil.

Eye rhymes

One of my favorite things in Tarot, especially Tarot de Marseille and similar, is “eye rhymes” – a kind of moving poetry in flowing images where one can follow similarities (“rhymes”), fill in the blanks with context and see the story unfold. Each time one looks one can see a different story. Is it past and future meeting in the present as two rivers meet in the ocean? Is it getting out of the shell and braving genuine direct experience to turn your world upside down? Is it a birth? A lifetime?

Or is it a COVID released by animals to turn everything on its head and suspend us in midair, inviting us to take a look at our world and ourselves in it??? That would be a remarkable story to tell in 9/12/2019 when I pulled the cards. That was when I took a class with Enrique Enriquez – a brilliant tarot reader, master teacher and an amazing genuine poet.

I had so much fun just pulling cards and reading, my baby moves and his fluid play. To protect my fragile ego I told myself that this method shall be secondary for me, perhaps to stretch my limits, a practice of sorts. What I didn’t know was that a curious seed was planted. My “upside down” side got the spotlight it was longing for. That too can be a plot in these three cards posted exactly a year ago.

Golden Flower

A golden flower has nine lives. Cut eight times it grows back even stronger. But the ninth time is the charm – it turns into an elixir of life.

New life begins, filled with meaningful choices and wholesome integrity. Hail the King, the ruler with soul that inspires just deeds.

Tarot by Jean Noblet

Our collective knowledge and way of life came under attack. We had to protect it and we engraved it in this one golden deck. We kept the magic close.

As our people were considered traitors and persecuted, we had to be quick on our feet, ready for any surprises.

Unsuspecting rulers allowed this to go on and multiply, but it was never what it seemed on the surface. Though deduced to the bare bone, the tradition was saved, thanks to the divine protection.

Dentist

No one likes to visit a dentist – strapped to a chair, instruments poking in your mouth for eternity, water running down your throat.

The world looks upside down, and the wisdom teeth are silent.

But then the problem is fixed, you get back on your unsteady feet… feeling in one piece again… strangely peaceful, as the glorious being you are.