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Universal Marseille Tarot - tarot decks

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  • The Universal Marseille Tarot is based on a Swiss deck created in 1751 by by Claude Burdel, retaining the woodcat
  • look but with more natural colour shading. It has now been published as a standalone deck, and is due to published
  • later as a kit with a companion book written by Lee Bursten.


Specifications
Name Universal Marseille Tarot
Creators Lee Bursten
Publisher Lo Scarabeo 2006
Deck Type Tarot Deck
Cards 78


Reviews

The suits are Staves, Chalices, Swords and Pentacles. The Court cards are King, Queen, Knight and Knave. The Trumps follow traditional titles, with Justice as VIII and Strength as XI.

The Marseille deck, rather than being used primarily for divination, found its primary use for card-playing, both in gambling halls and in private homes. The Marseille decks were printed from woodblocks, and retained a plain, unassuming art form. Bursten posits that when occult scholars of the eighteenth century discovered their idea being reflected back at them from the images in a lowly deck of playing cards, that it was the Marseille deck they were looking at. Thus, the deck pattern that held such popularity in game-playing also became the focus of occultists.

Bursten points out that the images that were perfectly comprehensible to the average fifteenth-century card player were mysterious to the eighteenth and nineteenth-century occultists. Mysterious, yet strangely familiar. Thus the Marseille Tarot was part of everyday life (gaming), as well as an object of philosophical and spiritual study. When used for divinatory purposes, the Marseille deck allows us to access the commonplace and the spiritual - the root of Tarot as we know it.

The LWB contains translations in English, Italian, French, Spanish and German. There is an introductory section explaining what the Marseille tradition is, and its importance in the Tarot world. In the introduction to the Trumps, Bursten presents an excellent picture of the 3 X 7 tradition - something you normally would not see in a pamphlet this size. Keywords are given for the Trumps only, followed by definitions for the numbers Ace through Ten, and the court card rankings. There are examples given for interpreting the cards given the information on the numbers and the suit meanings.

The divinatory meanings for the Trumps in the LWB were derived from the history of the Tarot images, and from what they might have meant to an average person in the fifteenth through seventeenth-centuries. For a more in-depth study of the images, "The Marseille Tarot Companion", by Lee Bursten, is recommended.

In the introduction to the Trumps, Bursten presents the 3 X 7 theory, based on Plato's theory of the soul being divided into three parts: The Soul of Desire, The Soul of Will, and The Soul of Reason. Trumps I-VII represent the Soul of Desire, Trumps VIII-XIV represent The Soul of Will, and Trumps XV-XXI represent The Soul of Reason. Cards I-V represent worldly powers. In The Lovers, the choice is made to give higher priority to virtue. The Chariot shows the Soul of Will in the driver's seat, in preparation for the second sequence. Cards VIII-XIV show how we learn to develop the qualities of Justice, Strength and Temperance. Cards XV-XXI show how following appetite and honor will not bring us to our goal. In the Tower card, divine grace steps in and frees us from the Soul of Desire and the Soul of Will. The Star, Moon and Sun show the search for beauty as being a search for light. Death and time are defeated in the card of Judgment. In the card of The World, we have triumphed over even time and death.

In the LWB, individual meanings are not given for the pips and court cards. Instead, meanings are given for the numbers (Ace through Ten) and rankings (King, Queen, Knight and Knave). To interpret the cards in a spread, it is recommended that the reader combine the number meaning with the suit meaning.

The suits are defined as areas of human experience. The keyword for each suit is: Staves - creating, Cups - interacting, Swords - defending, and Coins - obtaining.

The pip cards are said to represent actions, thoughts and feelings that are experienced on a daily basis. I do like that way that the numbers are defined. Aces are "There's a first time for everything." Two;s are "It takes two." Three's are "Having a plan." Four's are "Making it happen." Five's are "Challenging yourself." Six's are "Keeping it going." Seven's are "Going deeper." Eight's are "The efficiency expert." Nine's are "You deserve it." Ten's are "Enough already."

The Court cards are defined as representing modes of human behavior, with no genders implied (i.e. a King could represent either a man or a woman, and a Queen could represent either a woman or a man).

From the book:

King: Controlling. Using force and authority to impose one's will. Queen: Encouraging. Getting things done in a calm, understated way. Using persuasion rather than force. Knight: Focusing. Single-mindedness. Determination. Knave: Learning. Curiosity. Becoming interested.

There are no divinatory spreads presented. In the section on reading the cards, Bursten advises the reader to "adopt a flexible and experimental attitude", as well as allowing ones intuitive processes to unfold.

The cards themselves are approximately 2 5/8" by 4 3/4", and of good quality, sturdy, glossy card stock. The backs show a 1/4" black border, with the inset using a red background covered with a gold leaf pattern. It would not be possible to tell if the cards were drawn upright or reversed.

The faces show a 1/4" white border. The Trumps show the number centered at the top, in Roman numerals, with the title (in English, Italian, French, Spanish and German) in black script in the four corners. The Pips (numbered cards) show the number in small Roman numerals at the bottom of the card. The Court cards show the title and suit (in English, Italian, French, Spanish and German) in black script in the four corners.

The imagery in the Marseille deck is much older than that in most decks. Here we see the Fool walking across flat land, with no precipice, facing the right hand side of the card. The High Priestess is holding her book in both hands in her lap, and there is no writing on it. The Emperor is shown with his right leg crossed over the left, forming a triangle. The Wheel of Fortune shows three animals - the top one wearing a crown. Death is clearly the "Grim Reaper", showing a skeleton walking across the ground, scythe in hand. Out of the ground we see heads, hands and feet "coming up", or perhaps "being born". Temperance is dressed in red and blue, but stand firmly on land, with no water visible, except for that which she pours between two jugs.

The pips are not illustrated, except the use of the suit symbols. The background for each suit is distinctive: light green for Staves, light rose for Chalices, light blue for Swords, light yellow for Pentacles. The Two of Chalices is unique, in that the bottom quarter of the card shows and icon with a large "C" on one side, and a large "B" on the other side. Each of the Knaves are walking, each of the Knights are riding a horse, each of the Queens are seated, and each of the Kings are seated. the Two of Pentacles shows a ribbon reading "Claude.Burdel.Cartier.Et Graveur.1751". The odd numbered Swords (1,3,5,7,9) show one straight sword, with the remaining swords paired off and curved. The Ten of Swords shows four pairs of curved swords with two straight swords crossing tips in the center of the card.

The illustrations have been recolored (newly colored) to great effect. Lee Bursten's text is way beyond what one has come to expect from a pamphlet of this size. His work is outstanding (as anyone who has Ciro Marchetti's "Tarot of Dreams", for which Lee Bursten did the companion text, will know), and he presents some innovative ideas with his treatment of the Pips and Court cards. This deck could easily be used by readers from all levels of experience. I highly recommend it also for the nicely written explanation of the 3 X 7 pattern for the Trumps. The one snafu? Lee's name is misspelled, in bold type, on the back of the LWB!


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