Illustrated dictionary of Tarot de Marseille symbols: 124 details, card by card

A man walks toward the right, a bundle at the end of a stick over his shoulder, a staff in his other hand. A flesh-colored animal clings to his thigh. There is no number in the band at the top: it is the only card in the deck without one.

A young man stands behind a table covered with objects, a wand raised in one hand, a coin in the other. His wide hat, his three-colored clothes and his table standing on three visible legs draw most of the readings.

A seated woman, wearing a tiara, holds an open book on her lap. A pale veil falls behind her. Her blue cloak covers almost everything; neither her feet nor any ground can be seen. The engraved title is LA·PAPESSE, “the Popess”; the usual English name, the High Priestess, comes from the Rider-Waite.

A crowned sovereign, seated, holds a scepter in one hand and a shield bearing an eagle in the other. The back of her throne spreads out behind her like two pale wings.

A bearded sovereign, seen in profile and turned to the left, holds a scepter and leans against a throne bearing an eagle. His legs are crossed; it is hard to say whether he is sitting or standing.

A bearded man wearing the tiara raises two fingers in blessing and holds a cross with three crossbars. In front of him, two figures seen from behind, their heads tonsured. Two blue columns frame the scene. The engraved title is LE·PAPE, “the Pope”; the usual English name, the Hierophant, comes from the Rider-Waite.

A barefoot young man stands between two women who are touching him. Above, a winged Cupid draws his bow inside a white sun. The engraved title is L’AMOVREVX, in the singular: “the Lover.”

A crowned prince, scepter in hand, stands in a canopied chariot drawn by two horses, one red, the other blue. He has no reins. On the front of the chariot, a small shield bears two letters.

A seated woman, seen from the front, looks at the reader. She holds a set of scales in her left hand and an upright sword in her right. Two yellow uprights rise behind her.

An old bearded man, wrapped in a blue cloak lined with red and yellow, walks toward the left. He raises a lantern in one hand and leans on a staff with the other.

A six-spoked wheel, mounted on a yellow stand set on blue ripples, carries three creatures: one goes down on the left, another climbs on the right, the third sits enthroned at the top, crowned, winged, a sword in hand. A crank sticks out of the axle.

A standing woman, wearing a wide hat, holds with both hands the mouth of a yellow lion that seems to come out of her dress. Her face is calm, her eyes lowered toward the animal.

A young man hangs head down, by one foot, from a crossbeam set on two trunks stripped of their branches. His legs are crossed, his hands hidden behind his back, his face serene.

A flesh-colored skeleton, turned to the right, wields a scythe with an orange blade over black ground strewn with heads, hands, feet and bones. Blue and yellow shoots rise from that ground. The title band is empty; the site’s English pages call the card Death, after the Rider-Waite.

An angel with pale wings, standing, pours water from a blue vessel into a red one. The water flows sideways, without falling. A red flower is tucked into the angel’s hair.

A figure with bat wings, stag’s antlers and a body both female and male stands on a pedestal. Two small devils, tied to the pedestal by a rope, stand on either side, hands behind their backs.

A tower of pale bricks, pierced by three windows, loses its crown under a flame coming from the upper right corner. Two figures fall or escape; the air is full of spheres in three colors. The engraved title is LA·MAISON·DIEV, “the House of God”; the usual English name, the Tower, comes from the Rider-Waite.

A naked woman, one knee on the ground, pours water from two red jugs, one into a river, the other onto the earth. Above her, a large sixteen-pointed star and seven smaller stars. A dark bird is perched on a tree.

A moon in profile, turned to the left, shines above two yellow towers. Two dogs, rearing up, face each other with their mouths open. At the bottom, a blue crayfish in a pool. Nineteen drops fill the space between the moon and the dogs.

A sun with a human face, seen head-on, shines down on two naked children standing in front of a low wall of yellow bricks. Straight rays and wavy rays alternate; thirteen drops fall between the sun and the children.

An angel comes out of blue clouds, surrounded by rays, and blows a trumpet from which hangs a banner with a cross. Below, three naked figures: a woman on the left, a man on the right, and between them a figure seen from behind who rises out of a green rectangle.

A naked woman, draped in a scarf, dances at the center of an oval wreath of yellow, red and blue leaves, tied at the top and the bottom. In the four corners, an angel, an eagle, a bull and a lion.