Based on the influential Nicholas Conver 1760 deck, the CBD Tarot de Marseille represents a unprecedented restoration project by Yoav Ben-Dov that spanned over 3-1/2 years. The Original Woodblock lines were created in a slow organic process to obtain a non-uniform texture maintaining the original charm of the wood prints. The coloring scheme references one of the earliest available Conver edition kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Yoav Ben-Dov has kept many of the original decks anomalies intact considering these irregularities an element of chaos consciously introduced to give the cards a dynamic and dream-like atmosphere. This vibrant 79-card deck includes an extra blank logo card to be used as a carte blanche, "for everything that is open and possible”. Also included is a 56-page booklet with suggestions for reading the cards, with both upright and inverse meanings.
This deck is an excellent deck for those ready to start their Marseille Journey.
CBD Tarot de Marseille was voted by 13,000 Tarot Association Facebook subscribers as one of Top 50 Essential Tarot Decks, the only one in the “Marseilles decks” category.
"Ben-Dov has created what I believe to be the most elegant restoration of the classic Conver Marseille deck available.” —Mary K. Greer
Specs
- 79 cards measure 2.5” x 4.75”
- Instruction Booklet
Author
Yoav Ben-Dov waswas born in 1957 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and passed a part of his childhood in Ethiopia. He studied physics and philosophy of science in Tel Aviv University, and did his doctorate in Paris-13 University on the philosophy of quantum mechanics. He lectured for 18 years in Tel Aviv and other universities. Author of the first Tarot book in Hebrew (1981). Ben studied Tarot and psychomagic with Alexandro Jodorowsky in Paris in the mid-1980′s. He restored and published CBD Tarot de Marseille (2008-2010)
