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Reading guide · Tarot de Marseille Minors
How to read the floral Minors in New Choice Tarot de Marseille—classical TdM structure plus a botanical layer explained in the 80-page guidebook.
Classical Tarot de Marseille Minors use pip layouts—swords, cups, wands, coins—rather than a full scene on every card. That structure is powerful, but beginners often want a second cue. Rosario Salerno traded baroque filigree for modern floral work: each Minor carries a flower species whose traditional meaning is tied to that card.
The result stays TdM: you still read suit and number. The flower is an intuitive layer for quicker recognition—especially useful if you love Marseille but wished a deck could feel contemporary without becoming Rider–Waite.
Use this pass on a single pip card or across a suit run. Structure first; bloom second; guidebook third.
New Choice Tarot de Marseille keeps classical TdM structure: pip Minors, courts, and Majors. Start with suit (Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles) and number—the Marseille backbone—before you lean on the flower.
Each Minor Arcana card carries a unique floral motif. The species is not decoration; it carries a traditional meaning tied to that card’s message. Use it as a second layer when the pip layout alone feels thin.
Every flower in the deck is explained in the full-colour booklet. Look at the bloom, name what it suggests, then check the guide written for these images—not a generic TdM pamphlet.
In this deck, the III of Pentacles reads as a material move that is starting to return—or fail—in the real world. The Veronica flower, in the guide’s language, points toward a clean success in a new start. Suit + number set the stage; the flower sharpens the advice.
New Choice Tarot de Marseille (third edition) is a hand-painted watercolour TdM with metallic magenta gilding: 78 cards (70 × 120 mm), holographic box, signed certificate, and an 80-page full-colour guidebook covering card meanings and every flower in the Minors. Limited to 500 numbered copies, packed from our studio.
Queer-inspired aesthetics and contemporary mood sit on classical Marseille structure—not a RWS clone. Still choosing a system? Read Rider–Waite vs Tarot de Marseille. Prefer scene-based Minors? See how to read The New Voice Tarot.
Choose New Choice Tarot de Marseille if you want classical European structure, pip reading, and a botanical second language in the Minors. Choose The New Voice Tarot if you want fully illustrated RWS scenes. Both are inclusive studio decks—compare them on the queer tarot collection or the best LGBTQ+ & queer tarot decks guide.
In New Choice Tarot de Marseille, each Minor Arcana card includes a unique floral motif whose traditional meaning is tied to that card. You still read classical TdM suit and number; the flower adds an intuitive second layer explained in the 80-page guidebook.
No. The third edition includes an 80-page full-colour guidebook that covers card meanings and the flower symbolism for every Minor Arcana card.
Yes. New Choice Tarot de Marseille follows classical TdM structure and iconography. The floral Minors replace baroque ornament with botanical cues—they do not turn the deck into Rider–Waite scenes.
Flower language only works when the guidebook names the same blooms you hold. Buy the third-edition TdM, or start from the Marseille collection if you want product details first.