Freddie
Hi All,
I have built up a little collection of Mary Greer workbooks, but alas I have never written in them. I must admit I have struggled to find the right deck to use with them. I have recently began to actually write in Tarot Transformation (Tarot for Yourself) and I am finding the experience to be far more richer than just reading the book. The enlightenment I have recieved from her books has deeply enriched the Tarot for myself and those I read for. Thank you Mary Greer!
I have been using 'Vision Quest' and 'Hudes' with good results with Mary's books. I like both RWS and Thoth which are the primary illustrations within these books, but over the last almost 30 years I am very tired of looking at them. I do feel the illustrations are appropriate for these books as they are universal and easily identified within the Tarot community, so I am not complaining about the illustrations at all.
My trouble with finding compatible decks with Mary's books spring from her wonderful prose concerning sex and gender within the realm of Tarot. I have discovered through her books that being able to truly relate to the opposite sex (as depicted in the Tarot female/male image) is really about forgetting about gender and seeking something more personal yet universal in the image. This is why I have chose these two decks, because both sexes seem more realistic and are interchangable with each other. The decks that portrayed women as sex objects or men as macho were automatically taken out of the mix early in this decision (not for use with the workbooks at any rate).
Which deck(s) do you all use with her workbooks and why?
Freddie
I have built up a little collection of Mary Greer workbooks, but alas I have never written in them. I must admit I have struggled to find the right deck to use with them. I have recently began to actually write in Tarot Transformation (Tarot for Yourself) and I am finding the experience to be far more richer than just reading the book. The enlightenment I have recieved from her books has deeply enriched the Tarot for myself and those I read for. Thank you Mary Greer!
I have been using 'Vision Quest' and 'Hudes' with good results with Mary's books. I like both RWS and Thoth which are the primary illustrations within these books, but over the last almost 30 years I am very tired of looking at them. I do feel the illustrations are appropriate for these books as they are universal and easily identified within the Tarot community, so I am not complaining about the illustrations at all.
My trouble with finding compatible decks with Mary's books spring from her wonderful prose concerning sex and gender within the realm of Tarot. I have discovered through her books that being able to truly relate to the opposite sex (as depicted in the Tarot female/male image) is really about forgetting about gender and seeking something more personal yet universal in the image. This is why I have chose these two decks, because both sexes seem more realistic and are interchangable with each other. The decks that portrayed women as sex objects or men as macho were automatically taken out of the mix early in this decision (not for use with the workbooks at any rate).
Which deck(s) do you all use with her workbooks and why?
Freddie