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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Excellent "light" Tarot , July 6, 2006
Morgan's deck is my favorite ... with 'real life' images. When I first began looking at various Tarots, Morgan's deck was the one that felt "lightest" and "cleanest" to me, and so it was where I started. I've now been doing my professional readings "card free" as it were, for years ... as Morgan's cards lent themselves to the opening of my intuitive, to the degree I could relate the information faster than I could turn the cards. As to the "noise" referred to, Morgan had a Very tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, and didn't really believe the deck needed a book, but that each user could develop their own interpretation for the symbols. (in fact, when Morgan himself was publishing the deck, there was no book.) So, when U.S. Games stepped up to be the publisher, and required a book, as part of the package, Morgan's sense of humor stepped up to meet them. Just enjoy or toss out the humor, and use the underlying thoughts as your guide.
The cards, originally, weren't meant as a tarot or even as anything for anyone other than Morgan. When he described their origin to me, he said he was working as a dishwasher at a small place in the Santa Cruz mountains and studying his own personal development. He got some cards (I assume index cards) and started writing down the key ideas he'd been thinking about, just as sort of reminders for himself. There are even around a half-dozen cards in the deck that he attributed to the cook at the same place.
Morgan just carried the cards around to be reminders of his focus in terms of consciousness. (being a spiritual being seemed to make sense, easily, to him, but the "living a human" life was much harder to integrate and make sense of ...)
He described his confusion as other people started looking at his cards and getting something from them ... and started insisting that he should publish them as a tarot. (I'm sure those others pictured that as a simple path to a "well beyond dish washer" income for him ... when I met him, he was washing dishes, again, for a place that would trade food and lodging and some pay ...)
He found the artist ... and thus the black-and-white line drawings came into being ... and, from somewhere, scraped up the money to actually print decks ... and set about selling them himself. Eventually they gained enough "grass roots" popularity to be in Metaphysical (and other) bookshops all over the place, to the extent U.S. Games found him and picked up the rights.
You have to put this all in the perspective of the times, this was during the first waves of popularity of "awareness and consciousness" in the western world ... Timothy Leary and Ram Dass (under his other name) were exploring LSD at Harvard ... and many other folks were doing their own explorations along similar paths ... so, when I met Morgan, over a beer, I told him, first, that I'd been reading with his cards for years and loved them. Then I confessed, (somewhat embarrassed) that based on the mythology around, I'd been describing the author, him, as ... ' a drug-crazed hippy out of Santa Cruz...' ... he paused a long time, looking at me, and finally replied..."Boulder Creek, actually, but nobody knows where that is ... I guess Santa Cruz is close enough..."
Morgan passed over some years back ... and I have to confess, my first thought when I heard about it was, "Wow ... he made it ... he finally finished what ever lesson was SO hard for him to learn ... and made it out..." Being a spiritual being was pretty close for him to touch, it seemed ... but being a spiritual being living a human lifetime ... seemed to be a mystery to him for the whole time.
Scout Bartlett
Scout@LifeInsights.Net
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An AMAZING deck for the Aquarian Age, September 6, 2002
88 Cards. No suits. No Minor Arcana. No order. Sound confusing? NOT TO WORRY! This is an amazing and intuitive deck! I've been using this deck (the same one) for 14 years now, and am STILL amazed by its accuracy, veracity, and ability to communicate to the inquirant directly. The previous reviewer complained about the "noise" in the included booklet, "nonsense(?) clouding much of the real information." Let me set the record straight--some of this "nonsense" has spoken to people I've read for in ways that I'd have never forseen or imagined. It is "nonsense" in that it is for non-sense, i.e. right-hemisphere intuition, not left-hemisphere logic and reason--remember, the two hemispheres of the brain are fundamentally at odds. FORGET the Rider-Waite (and wait and wait and wait) deck, this deck taps the collective conciousness of the New Aeon like no other. Oh, and if the previous reviewer has had problems with the non-order of the book, and the lack of numbers on the cards, numbers can be assigned to the cards, by the order they appear in the book, and written on the cards (it's a hand-drawn pen&ink black and white deck, and so hand written numbers are not at all incongruous with the overall appearance of the deck. Everyone I read with this deck wants a copy for themselves, and I hope they'll find one eventually--Let's hope that U.S. Games issues another reprint of this deck, and SOON! After 14 years, my deck's just about worn out! :-)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enlighten Up with This Deck, September 18, 2002
I've had this deck for 20 years and I love it. Nothing to memorize, no esoteric secrets. Even tho it's a cartoon, it gives accurate great readings. The imagery and captions are in modern, new age vernacular with a 70's flavor. Everyone smiles when I pull it out. Easy to read and I hardly ever refer to the book, even tho I numbered the cards to match the entries. People don't find it intimidating and find themselves adding to their own reading. Get this deck if you don't take life too seriously and want to have fun with reading. If you want to mystify people you don't want this one.
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