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Category: Belline

Marcel Belline (or Marcel Forget) released two decks in the 1960s: the ‘Grand Tarot de Belline’ and the ‘Oracle of Belline’. Both decks were originally designed by Mage Edmond in 1840.

The Tarot deck is currently no longer published, but is still regularly offered via digital marketplaces such as Vinted, ebay, catawiki etc. There has never been an accompanying book for this Tarot deck.

Grand Tarot de Belline

The Belline Oracle is a deck published in 1961 and is more popular with a big audience. The deck consists of 53 cards which in turn consist of 7 groups of 7 cards. The groups are again assigned to a celestial planet (the so-called 7 ‘classic’ planets: Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn). 4 cards have no astrological association, these are the key, the Man, the Woman and the blue card (the magnetic card) of Belline itself.

Cards from the Belline Oracle

The name ‘Belline’ is probably familiar to some; Especially to those who are interested in the history of the Tarot and like to work with the somewhat unknown decks like the ‘Grand Tarot de Belline’. This deck consists of 78 cards and the system looks like a mixture of the work of Jean Baptiste Aliette and the traditional Marseille deck.

The ‘Belline Oracle’ and the ‘Grand Tarot de Belline’ are named after the man who is actual name is Marcel Forget (1924 – 1977). Marcel Forget was a well-known Tarotist in Paris in the 20th century, but the decks he published were not of his hand. The original author is Mage Edmond (real name: Jules Charles Ernest Billaudot). And he was also an interesting character….