Frequently Asked Questions

The DAL Tarot is an 80-card tarot structured as a double octave. It brings the Tarot de Marseille and the Rider-Waite-Smith into dialogue without merging them: each card builds its own coherence, distinct from the two traditions that inspire it.

To the classic 78 cards (22 Major Arcana, 56 Minor Arcana), the DAL Tarot adds two further major arcana, The Fool (22) and The Magician (23), which extend the cycle of The Wanderer and The Juggler into a second register, closer to the Rider-Waite-Smith.

The Tarot de Marseille relies on ancient codes and a demanding symbolic reading; the more recent Rider-Waite-Smith illustrates each card with a scene that makes an intuitive reading easier. The DAL Tarot does not choose between the two: it treats them as two witnesses to the same symbolic reality and offers a third reading, coherent with each without merging into either.

No. The DAL Tarot can be used as a tool for reflection, introspection, or an aid to decision-making, independently of any particular belief.

The Grimoire carried by the figures of the DAL Tarot is not a simple prop: within the fiction of the deck, it is the Tarot itself. Its presence — sometimes closed, sometimes open — follows a progression from card to card that traces the gradual recognition of its own function.

Each suit (Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles) tells a continuous story rather than a collection of independent cards: the same figure evolves from one card to the next, and the Grimoire they carry always follows the same progression — closed from the Ace to the Ten, opened for the first time by the Queen.

The Wanderer (0) arrives from the past and looks toward the future: he carries a heritage not yet read. The Fool (22), placed after The World, is this same figure after having crossed the whole of the first cycle — he looks toward the past, carrying the conscious memory of the road travelled.

The Juggler (I) is the starting point: a still-uncertain potential, juggling with chance. The Magician (23) is its fulfilment — he no longer submits to chance; he acts with full awareness of what his will brings about.

Yes. Access to the readings remains free, made possible by the advertising present on the site.

The DAL Tarot does not present its cards as certain predictions. They offer avenues of interpretation, and bring dynamics or blind spots to light — less a fixed fate than a possible path.

You can carry out a reading while keeping your question to yourself, or choose to share it with the site. The choice is entirely yours; the ability to receive an interpretation tailored to your question is a feature currently in development.

A reversed card is not simply the opposite of its upright meaning: every card in the DAL Tarot has its own reversed reading, conceived specifically for it rather than mechanically deduced from its upright meaning. Each card's page details this reading separately.