New Choice Tarot de Marseille (Third Edition)

A modern, hand-painted Tarot deck created in watercolour and finished with metallic magenta gilding, now in its third limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Each set includes 78 gilded cards (70 × 120 mm), an 80-page full-colour guidebook, and a signed certificate of authenticity. Traditional symbolism is preserved, while characters and scenes are reimagined with modern, urban and queer-inspired aesthetics. The Minor Arcana is enriched with a unique, symbolic language of flowers, adding an intuitive layer of meaning to readings (all explained in the guidebook).

Rooted in a deep study of the Tarot de Marseille, the deck reinterprets its classical structure in a contemporary key.

It has taken about two years to complete this new tarot deck, and it has been a labor of love. I have studied several classic Tarot de Marseille decks in order to stay faithful to their most important symbols, colors, and details, while also adjusting the style and meanings to fit a contemporary read.

For example, Le Mat (The Fool) is represented in a fresh, original way. While the figure still echoes the classic jester-figure in older Marseille decks, in the New Choice deck it becomes a punk character, matching the key idea: energy without a clear direction, free of rules, outside ‘the establishment’.

The court and major-arcana world-building leans on fashion and the feeling of a night out — the underground club world and queer-themed parties are part of the mood — where music lovers, artists, and misfit kings meet and celebrate, dressed in the looks they love.

The ‘House of God’ / The Tower, for example, carries a hint of a certain Berlin techno club, if you like to look for a real door in the art.

A signature feature of the New Choice Tarot is the symbolism in the minors. For quicker recognition in readings, the usual baroque filigree is traded for modern floral work: each flower species carries a traditional meaning, tied to the message of the card, so the reading can open a little more clearly when a suit shows up the table.

For example, the III of Pentacles is read as a material move that is starting to return — or fail — in the real world, and the Veronica flower, in the guide’s language, points toward a clean success in a new start. The booklet walks through the flower language for this deck. If you love the Tarot de Marseille and always wished a deck could be contemporary and a little more fun, this one is a fresh take in that spirit.