Taromantic – Educational Marseille Tarot with Meanings Printed (1987)

🔸 Description

🔸 Title: Taromantic – Jeu Divinatoire du Tarot de Marseille
🔸 Publisher / Brand: Grimaud / France Cartes
🔸 Year: 1987
🔸 Place of publication: France
🔸 Type: Educational / tutorial tarot deck
🔸 Tradition: Tarot de Marseille (simplified system)
🔸 Cards: 26 cards total
🔸 Contents:
– 22 Major Arcana
– 4 Aces (Minor Arcana)
🔸 Card size: 64.5 × 122 mm
🔸 Language: French
🔸 Box: Original blue tuck box with printed back pattern
🔸 Made in: France

The Taromantic is a simplified instructional version of the traditional Tarot de Marseille, designed as an accessible learning tool for beginners and students of cartomancy.

Each card includes printed meanings directly on the card, along with interpretive notes influenced by neighboring cards, allowing the reader to understand interactions and combinations without memorization. This makes the Taromantic both a didactic tarot and a practical reading deck.

The deck focuses on clarity, structure, and pedagogy, offering a straightforward introduction to Marseille symbolism while preserving its essential archetypal language. Often described as a “tarot tutorial in card form,” it was produced during a period when French publishers emphasized educational divination systems.

🔸 Condition

Cards are in very good condition, clean and well preserved.
The original box shows visible wear and small tears consistent with age and use, dated 1987 (see photos).

🪶 Collector’s Note

The Taromantic (1987) occupies a distinctive place in modern French tarot history as a bridge between traditional Tarot de Marseille imagery and late-20th-century pedagogical cartomancy. Published by Grimaud, it reflects a period when tarot was increasingly taught as a structured language rather than an intuitive art alone.

Because meanings are printed directly on the cards, complete sets in good condition are increasingly sought after by collectors, educators, and beginners looking for historically grounded learning decks. A concise, honest, and intelligently designed tarot — now out of print.