The Marseille Tarot

The 22 major arcana

From the first step of the Fool to the fullness of the World, the 22 cards tell the great journey of the soul. Choose a card to discover its symbol, its upright and reversed meaning and the mirror hours it governs.

The twenty-two major arcana, the ones you see here, stand apart from the fifty-six minors: the majors carry the great archetypes, the deep currents of a life, where the minors tell the everyday. Every card also reads two ways, upright or reversed: reversed, its energy is not turned into its opposite but held back, slowed down or turned inward. That double face is what makes the tarot such a fine mirror.

Every major arcana carries an energy of its own: its answer in a yes or no reading, its element, its celestial correspondence and its message for love, work, money and energy. The cards also speak with the mirror hours: every hour that repeats itself is governed by one of them. And if the numbers follow you beyond the clock, the angel numbers speak the same language.