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chrisam-crystals
01-11-2006, 22:51
what do you think about this oracle deck?
the artistry is superb and it is wonderful trying to make out the faces of the green man in each tree card!
the only drawback that i have found is that the symbolism of each card is somewhat lacking, and the explanation of each ogham stave is virtually non-existant!
i keep finding myself looking online for ogham stave meanings so that i can come up with a better interpretation of each card. :(
and is it just me or is it easier to use this as an addition to tarot - drawing a card or two to reinforce?
when it comes to using just the deck for a reading i find myself really struggling! lol
jue xx
Isnt this a glorious deck - the illustrations are beautiful - one of my favourites!
I do find though, I do more research for the individual cards than taking from whats in the book, but by doing this, I have learnt so much more about the trees, the mythics, the lore, the cultures. Its the type of deck you can journal your findings about and come up with an expanded and very personal interpretations about - then the trees becomes very familiar very quickly.
I had to do the same with the Angel Oracles as well, I didnt know any of the Angels, only the Hells Angels, and I couldnt find that card in the deck LOL!! ;) ...but a thoroughly enjoyable learning experience.
Hope this encourages you to keep going with this deck - it really has a lovely feeling to it (IMHO) ;)
Blessings Elven x
I couldn't agree more - the cards are glorious, but the book is, to put it kindly, rather lightweight.
I've been using the cards in conjunction with an excellent book on the ogham I stumbled across recently. It's called "Ogam: How to Read, Create and Shape Your Destiny Through the Celtic Oracle" by Paul Rhys Mountford. It gives a lot of history, background and myth about the ogham, and also reviews a whole bunch of ogham decks!
Chronata
02-11-2006, 04:05
yeah...I find that there really isn't much in the book that's comprehensive!
I keep the ogham meanings next to me as I read...and really do read these in an intutitive way, asking the tree what it thinks or knows about the situation, based on the expression and what I see in the picture, and what this brings to mind...
Has anyone ever read these alongside the Froud Faeries?
Now THOSE readings are a hoot!
Especially if you let them sort of talk to each other, and just let your imagination go wiild...
very interesting conversations occur between trees and faeries!
Some of my best readings...and certainly most successful with the Green Man Tree Oracle has been when I read them like I read Froud's.
I also have the greenman, and find the cards so interesting and beautiful but the meanings in the book are a little off, I have associated which are from the upper,middle and lower worlds, and kinda go off that.
Where did you guys find other meanings to the different kind of trees?
they kind of talk to me like the trees in the Wizard of Oz
I have this deck and I love it- but more for the knowledge not for reading. I purchased this book. Tree Medicine/Tree Magic by Ellen Evert Hopman.
It covers the trees of the deck. You are right, the deck book is light.
Trees purify the air
They also purify the mind...
if you want to save your world.,
You must save the Trees. The Trees of Endor
~Rosanne
I would love to see this Deck. I dont see it listed in the decks. I love the Green man. I have a rocking chair he is on. I make him from clay! Where can I see this deck?
I would love to see this Deck. I dont see it listed in the decks. I love the Green man. I have a rocking chair he is on. I make him from clay! Where can I see this deck?
I've looked all over the internet, most places just show the outside of the box but I found 3 cards at Holistic Shop http://www.holisticshop.co.uk/itemdetl.php?itemprcd=DIVGMANORAC
inanna_tarot
29-11-2006, 00:28
One thing with the tree style oracles was that I was trying to learn the ogham system rather than the trees themselves.
I found when I stopped trying to work out the whys and whats of the staves and got back to working and feeling and talking to the trees that I 'got' it. Its like tarot, you can read the books and supposed interpretations, but its your intuition that puts a reading together. And I think its more important to listen to your intuition with the Tree oracles (whichever kind) because they are living breathing entities which people have worked with for thousands of years, not just funny notches and what a book says they are supposed to mean.
That was my own hang up... maybe my story helps you jue?
Or I can highly recommend The Celtic Tree Mysteries book that talks about the formation of the ogham alphabet and then helps you build and understand each tree for the whole being it is.
Sezo
x
Ok, Im loving those three cards, thanks so much for posting them. I am adding this deck to my wish list for sure! Some how it is saying, get me, get me!
blackroseivy
29-11-2006, 02:56
I have Caitl`in Matthews' "Celtic Wisdom Sticks". It's a pretty thorough - & very poetic- interpretation of the Ogham. Perhaps you could pick up a set (they are actual twigs & very tactile), & jump from 1 to the other, to get better acquainted.
In the mail ....comming I have the sacred Circle deck, It too has a wonderful Green man. I cant wait to get it.
Bat Chicken
29-11-2006, 10:07
One thing with the tree style oracles was that I was trying to learn the ogham system rather than the trees themselves.
I found when I stopped trying to work out the whys and whats of the staves and got back to working and feeling and talking to the trees that I 'got' it. Its like tarot, you can read the books and supposed interpretations, but its your intuition that puts a reading together. And I think its more important to listen to your intuition with the Tree oracles (whichever kind) because they are living breathing entities which people have worked with for thousands of years, not just funny notches and what a book says they are supposed to mean.
That was my own hang up... maybe my story helps you jue?
Or I can highly recommend The Celtic Tree Mysteries book that talks about the formation of the ogham alphabet and then helps you build and understand each tree for the whole being it is.
Sezo
x
I have to agree with that book suggestion. I used it to actually make my own staves from the actual trees (where availalble). I think I found 3/4 of them and made replacements from trees with similar features. There is an article on the Druid website in England that will give an alternate list for the west coast U.S.A.
It took all summer actually... to do it.... Wonderful way to get to know the trees! :)
6 Haunted Days
20-12-2006, 00:46
I really want this one! OOP though isn't it? Figuires. Every deck I want is OOP. But someday I shall have one!
and is it just me or is it easier to use this as an addition to tarot - drawing a card or two to reinforce?
This deck makes a nice complement for the DruidCraft tarot as you described. The deck was done by the same artist that did the DruidCraft and the Druid Animal Oracle.
Quote....I've looked all over the internet, most places just show the outside of the box but I found 3 cards at Holistic Shop http://www.holisticshop.co.uk/itemd...rcd=DIVGMANORAC
If you click on 'enlarge image' there are 5 more cards and a back shown.
Beautiful artwork!
I really want this one! OOP though isn't it? Figuires. Every deck I want is OOP. But someday I shall have one!
If you're looking for the Greenman Tree Oracle deck, I've managed to get mine online from Amazon.com. I didn't pay alot for it either.
I love this deck and plan to work more with it this new year of 2007.
*edited*
I didn't realize it's now hard to find. I hope it becomes available again. Here is another link to show some of the cards.
http://home.insightbb.com/~wolfchild2/greenman.html
yaraluna
04-01-2007, 03:54
Has anyone ever read these alongside the Froud Faeries?
Now THOSE readings are a hoot!
Especially if you let them sort of talk to each other, and just let your imagination go wiild...
very interesting conversations occur between trees and faeries!
I'v been folowing this thread since i was going to get this deck at some point but ended up getting the Ogham deck. Chronata when you mention the connection of the fairies and the trees, that reminds me of when i was a child and my magical place of secrets and little people was my Olive tree! it was magical and still is. the stories that these little creatures tell with the help of my olive tree :D there is indeed a special connection btwn trees and fairies for sure!
Some of my best readings...and certainly most successful with the Green Man Tree Oracle has been when I read them like I read Froud's.
what do you mean by that? hwo do you read your FFairies in particular?
I am still awaiting the Ogham and i STILL want the greenman tree deck, but it's OOP BUmmer!:(
yara
6 Haunted Days
04-01-2007, 05:27
I'v been folowing this thread since i was going to get this deck at some point but ended up getting the Ogham deck. Chronata when you mention the connection of the fairies and the trees, that reminds me of when i was a child and my magical place of secrets and little people was my Olive tree! it was magical and still is. the stories that these little creatures tell with the help of my olive tree :D there is indeed a special connection btwn trees and fairies for sure!
what do you mean by that? hwo do you read your FFairies in particular?
I am still awaiting the Ogham and i STILL want the greenman tree deck, but it's OOP BUmmer!:(
yara
Yes it is hard to find! Nothing on Amazon, and I can't afford to pay a massive price. Just have to keep my eyes open!
On another note I just ordered Ogham: The Celtic Oracle by Peter Prancownik and Andy Baggot along with the book Ogam: The Celtic Oracle of the Trees: Understanding, Casting, and Interpreting the Ancient Druidic Alphabet by Paul Rhys Mountfort (using up the last of my Amazon gift certifiicate boo hoo). I have been really wanting the Ogham cards for a long time, and since they are OOP yet still cheap thought I had better get them before a random collecting bug hits and they shoot up in price!
yaraluna
04-01-2007, 12:09
I have been really wanting the Ogham cards for a long time, and since they are OOP yet still cheap thought I had better get them before a random collecting bug hits and they shoot up in price!
is the Ogham OOP?? I just ordered it off amazon.ca this x-mas. hmmm are you referring to the Tree one?
I just remember that i have a book in my personal library called "The celtic Oracle" by Nigel Jackson i have to research to see if that means that my hubby got that deck too. LOL!!
yara
6 Haunted Days
04-01-2007, 22:02
is the Ogham OOP?? I just ordered it off amazon.ca this x-mas. hmmm are you referring to the Tree one?
I just remember that i have a book in my personal library called "The celtic Oracle" by Nigel Jackson i have to research to see if that means that my hubby got that deck too. LOL!!
yara
No I was referring to the Ogham:Celtic Oracle I had mentioned getting above. From this thread http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=68105 it seems some think it is OOP and hard to find, though I pointed out it is available on Amazon for a cheap price still. Perhaps those in the thread were just speculating and it isn't OOP yet, it did only come out in Jan. 05!
yaraluna
05-01-2007, 06:40
No I was referring to the Ogham:Celtic Oracle I had mentioned getting above. From this thread http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=68105 it seems some think it is OOP and hard to find, though I pointed out it is available on Amazon for a cheap price still. Perhaps those in the thread were just speculating and it isn't OOP yet, it did only come out in Jan. 05!
yes i see. I got it also at amazon at a very good price and it is not OOP that i know of. I guess they are confused with the TRE one that seems to be OOP.
yara
GwendalinAivli
03-03-2007, 02:16
I know this is an older thread, but on the off chance someone is still watching it...
I just wanted to let you all know (thise that have the Green Man Tree Oracle on their wish list) that I just picked up this deck for $13 bucks!! (new) from a place called www.pentaclepress.com
I first heard of this deck when I came across it on this forum, and have been searching for it for a couple months. It's easy to find on websites for the UK, but not here in the US. I also didn't really wanted to pay $30 or $40 for it from amazon.
Anyway, just wanted to give you all a heads up in case you were still interested.
Have a great day!