Charlie,

You are so right! I would never, ever deface a Flornoy deck. Thanks for catching that. My bad!

Great suggestion on using a ben-Dov deck. In his book, ben-Dov actually has a wonderful method for folks who want to continue using reversals with a TdM.

Cheers!
Belenus

Laiste, the simplest answer is that you can't tell the difference. Why? Because the traditional decks such as the TdM were never meant to be read with reversals. They did not create the cards with a design that easily indicated a reversed state - simply because it was never a part of the tradition a...

Greetings from the beautiful Pacific Northwest! I have posted my "Tarot Story" in my profile. But here is a "cut-and-paste" for this thread: For more years than most of you have been alive ;-) I read and used the only deck available in my part of the world, what was commonly call...

Yes salamanders are a hermetic elemental associated with fire. As to the Tarot de Marseille (TdM), and its ancient "cousins" there were no elemental correspondences to the suits. That was a much later addition, perhaps the French esotericists (e.g., Alliette, De Gebelin), or maybe as late ...