If you’ve ever picked up a Marseille deck after years of Rider Waite, you already know something feels off and it’s not just the art.
In this video I walk through several cards side by side and break down where the two systems split. The 7 of Pentacles, the 7 of Swords, and a look at three Major Arcana — the Empress, the High Priestess, and the Hierophant — including how the numerology ties them together and where Marseille takes it somewhere else entirely.
I also get into how to approach reading Marseille if RWS is what you know. It’s not just a visual swap. The way you think through the cards has to shift too.
Watch the video to see where the difference in meanings between the two systems.