Morgan Greer

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 01 Nov 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Nina*	01 Nov 2004
Hi everybody I love the Morgan Greer deck. Not sure exactly why (I have plenty of other beautiful decks)... I just do. I read somewhere in here that the colours in this deck means a lot and I would be very gratefull if somebody would please explain to me how to 'read' those specific colours...??? BTW: love this forum almost as much as I love the MG Nina

SongDeva	01 Nov 2004
Davs, Ninjamagic, and welcome to AT! I'm sure people will answer your color questions, but I thought in case you are interested in other discussions about the Morgan Greer, you'd want to know to do a search. For example, here's one link to a previous MG discussion: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5038&highlight=morgan+greer And another, on users favorite cards: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19467&highlight=morgan+greer I'm actually excited for you, because I know how much fun you'll have with these threads! Sd

Emily	01 Nov 2004
Hi Ninamagic, I love the Morgan Greer too - its my main reading and study deck. The colouring on the cards was chosen to add to the symbolism on the cards, there are other added details too - like the pearl on the Sword Queen's throat, mistletoe, acorns and wheat on the Sword King, lots of details that you won't find on the Rider Waite - The book that accompanies the deck is good but is very thin so I usually use a symbol dictionary. I found it better just to look up the colours, like the purple of the High Priestess and see what they mean. Actually this deck had me reaching for a symbol dictionary within days of getting it. :) Hope this has helped a little. :)

Apollonia	01 Nov 2004
Hi, Ninamagic! I love the Morgan-Greer, too. I gave my deck to my sister a couple years ago, and I'm pining to have it back--guess I'll have to bite the bullet and actually order it again! The book "Spiritual Tarot: Seventy-Eight Paths to Personal Development" by Signe E. Echols et al uses illustrations from the Rider-Waite, Morgan-Greer, and Aquarian Tarots for each card, with a short but quite good explanation of the varying symbols used in each deck. Don't know if it's still in print--I got mine at my local Half Price Books, which is where I get most of my Tarot books and have gotten several beloved decks as well.

Nina*	01 Nov 2004
Hi again Thank you very much for your (quick) replies... Song Deva... The links are so exiting. I haven't read all yet, but surely will... Emily... hoped you would be one to answer me... have read lots of your posts about MG allready, and as perhaps you know, its lovely if somebody loves exactly the same thing as yourself :o) The symbol dictionary..... I've got one... just never got the idea that I could use it for this (thought it perhaps would be more tricky)... silly me :o/ Coatl... The book you recommend, Spiritual Tarot... I've got it. Just never read it. Now I will :o) Thanks again... Hmmm... this is wondefull... :o) Nina

Batman	01 Nov 2004
Hej Pus....

Sulis	02 Nov 2004
Hi Ninjamagic, Glad you've started a new thread about one of my favorite decks :) I've loved this deck from the moment I took it out of the box - I've just been re-reading those threads and it seems I've only had it a year - it feels as though I've had my Morgan Greer for ever. I love shuffling it - it's such a comfy deck and it seems like such a classic - it has an old feel without being that old. Glad you're enjoying your deck - get that symbol dictionary out, you'll get so much out of it - a good one is Sandra A Thompsons' 'Pictures from the heart - a tarot dictionary' Love Sulis xx

Emily	02 Nov 2004
Hi Ninamagic, I've just had to check back and see when I first had my deck - 23 October last year - just over a year. Like Sulis, I loved this deck right from the box and was even more amazed when I realised that I could read with it. I'd struggled with other decks and was close to giving up but the Morgan Greer gave me a new lease of life. I still get the same 'aha' moments, I do use other decks but this is the deck I will always return to. I hope that you are settling into your deck ok Ninamagic - I have the 'Spiritual Tarot' book too, very useful. Also just to do a search on colours on google can be interesting, and with some colours its easy to see how they fit in with the interpretations of the card. :)

Nina*	10 Nov 2004
NO! Don't wanna let this go.... Want to thank you all for your nice answers to my question, but still.... tell me more... This deck is so wonderful and deserves more than 6 or 7 posts... please... come on.......... Tell me about how you connect to this deck, how you love the pictures, the colours and how the deck is made. Admit: this is a 'one in a million'.... :o) Well.... I think it is...........................

Imagemaker	10 Nov 2004
I love this deck partly because it has no borders. The way the images stand out because they *don't* have a frame led me into trimming mania. I've cut the borders off soooo many other decks now. But the Morgan Greer will always be my inspiration.

Emily	10 Nov 2004
I like the Morgan Greer because its a good all round deck - you could use it for every question you could ever want to ask and for every spread you could ever want to use. Its a deck that you could use anywhere, it has a nice little shock card in the Devil, some of the images are not Rider Waite, the Sun for example, so its not a pure clone deck like say the Universal Waite or the Radiant. It makes a good stepping stone from the Rider Waite and is easily read but then you look deeper into the cards and all that extra symbolism hits you hard. I've been using the Morgan Greer for months now, I've never been so loyal to a deck before, and I still get the same thrill now as I did then. I know the artwork isn't to everyones taste but I love the old-fashioned feel. I feel my study of the tarot has been vastly improved by this deck. :)

tmgrl2	10 Nov 2004
I read mostly with my Hadar right now. Morgan Greer calls to me in darker moods. Why? The darkness of the colors? Yet they are so rich and bold with figures that are large and no borders to distract one from the images. I have about 20 decks. If I use a RWS deck, it is Morgan Greer or Gilded Tarot. Gilded is brighter and feels more spiritual and "light" to me, but Morgan Greer helps me dig very deep into the reading, very deep into my soul. I often use it for myself. It is quite a magnificent deck. I discovered it this summer when a known reader in our area read for me using it. I felt mesmerized by the pictures. I couldn't help but read them as he read them for me...so we wound up talking about the reading together. Yes...it is quite a hauntingly beautiful deck. terri

WalesWoman	10 Nov 2004
This was my first deck, I spent weeks looking at different ones and liked this one best, then spent another week trying to find it...in stock. I really liked the artwork and colors. I'm not quite sure how to pin point what it was, I wanted something fairly RWS, since I didn't know a thing about Tarot, something not too heavy to learn with. I'm sure it was the Lover's card that sold me on it, as well as the Devil card that bothered me the most. The most trouble I have with this is figuring out the meanings for the symbolism and feeling like I'm missing something...or maybe that was when I first started reading and benifited more from RWS Radiant. I haven't used it very often since I got other decks. I had a thought that Morgan-Greer might be the Zoom lens, use it to zoom into focus certain elements of these cards rather than all the surrounding symbolic influences.

Keslynn	11 Nov 2004
I gave my first copy of this deck away to a friend who really needed it, but then I missed it terribly so I bought a new one. This one isn't going anywhere! I enjoy this deck because of the rich colors and the 70s coolness of the images. I also really like the fact that the cards have no borders, and I think it lends a certain immediacy to the pictures. I use them for readings when I want to be comfortable more than anything else. This deck is so "me" that it's like slipping on a worn-in pair of shoes (that still look awesome). And I totally agree that the symbolism that's there is much deeper than I had first expected. I heart Morgan-Greer, and I'm glad to know that many others love it too. Fan club? :) Kes

Nina*	11 Nov 2004
I'm so glad to hear, i'm not alone loving this deck. I've been here on Aeclectic for about four years now and from what I've read I would never have thought that more than maybe two people liked it enough to use it more than a month or so. I think there are so many extremely beautiful (a lot more beautiful than the MG...!!!) new decks out there and several to come, but allthough I buy a lot of them and love to look at the pictures, they just don't give me the same feeling as my Morgan Greer and I don't feel right using them for readings... Well... maybe I'll change my opinion. But I have spend the last five years trying to find the right deck for me. And finally think I have (have had this deck for four years but it's only the last couple of months I realised its value) Thanks for reading this :o)

IDN	11 Nov 2004
I'm shuffling the MG right now as I read through these posts! I've only been into Tarot for 4 months, but my MG is already the favourite of my 6 decks. I think it's such a "cool" classic. The lack of borders, the BIG BOLD images and COLOURS were the aspects that drew me to it. The Knight of Swords is so cool.......... Regards, Ian

Emily	11 Nov 2004
Another thing about the Morgan Greer is how nicely the faces are drawn, I don't think I have another deck with such good expressive faces and with alot of the face cards you can see eye colour. The Knight of Swords for example has the red of the burning tower reflected in his eyes, the Lovers - blue eyes. Check out the eye colours - I don't have another deck that you can see the eye colours on (well except my Spanish Morgan Greer :D )

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