It's taken me a really long time to figure out why I feel so alienated from this deck. I've had it for 16 years and, while I have loved Tarot since before someone gave it to me as my first deck, I've pretty much disliked it from the get-go and it's only within the past year that I can put my finger on why:
As someone who is neither Judeo- nor Christian in their heritage this deck just makes baffling little sense! I don't care about what the B and J mean on the Priestess' towers. They have no meaning to me because neither the Torah nor the Bible are my heritage nor am I an occultist. And that's just one example. This deck is chock-full of symbolism which is why it became so relevant and why it continues to be so. However, all of those symbols are Jewish, Christian, or Occult. And if none of those three traditions resonate with you then this deck is essentially meaningless and instead just an unending series of rote memorization tasks.
I found myself drawn to the TdM from the get-go but as a young teen I really lacked the means to get decks on my own. I used this deck that I hated for three or for years before giving up. I just could not get it to speak to me. Now I know why. I do wonder if the fact that the woman who gave it to me (a reader herself) was Catholic by heritage has something to do with it.