About
Gabriel
Tarot reader in the Marseille tradition since 1992. Visual artist. In Tulum for a limited time.
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Paris, 1992
Gabriel was working as a chef in Paris when an economic crisis ended that chapter of his life. At home he had a tarot deck, given to him six years earlier by a medium named Carla, who had told him the cards would one day be part of his path. He had not believed her. In that stretch of uncertainty he went back to the deck, and it became his work.
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The Marseille line
He ties his practice to the long European history of tarot, from its origins in Italy to its development in Marseille. To him the cards are a language, to be read with seriousness and precision. Study and experience matter, he says, but reading also depends on an inner faculty that cannot be fully taught.
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What people bring
Some arrive with a relationship in conflict, some with emotional confusion, some with a decision about money, timing or business that they can't settle alone. With couples he reads the relationship itself. He sees his job as clearing things up for you, more than comforting you.
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Discretion, and the offering
Privacy is one of the foundations of his practice. He also holds that spiritual work has always involved an exchange. Long ago it was food or an object. Today it is usually money. For him that exchange is part of the ritual.
“Every time you have to give something.”V
Protection through silence
He gives the same advice to anyone starting something new: a plan is most exposed while it is still forming. Keep it to yourself until it exists.
“Never you have to tell. You have to tell only when you do.”VI
On love
When love turns into possession, control or resentment, he says, it becomes one more source of imbalance.
“Love is something different. I want you are happy with me or without me.”The artist
Gabriel is also a visual artist. He shares his work on Instagram.
From Gabriel's interview with The Tulum Times, April 2026. Read the article