This book really got a lot of things started for me, and I will forever be indebted to it. The Marseille Tarot isn't hugely popular, but it resonates with me more than the Smith-Waite Tarot and its offshoots. French vs English school.

I see the text itself as initiatory, the examples of reading very specifically chosen. One first goes through and begins to learn while benefitting from the insights of these examples. Next, one learns to read the Tarot in this method. Having learned to read the Tarot, the text is reread in light of Jodorowsky's theories of Psychomagic, in order to unlock the more "read between the lines" details given, particularly in the Introduction. After that, one makes their own Tarot.

It often goes unremarked that there is more Tarot material in Jodorowsky's Metagenealogy, in which more advanced Tarot and Psychomagic concepts are used together to look beyond the individual to the family and ancestors.