Tarot and the Gates of Light

by Mark Horn

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  About the Author

  Mark Horn has studied Kabbalah with academic, religious, and practical teachers, including Professor Elliot R. Wolfson at NYU, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi at Elat Chayyim, and Jason Shulman at A Society of Souls: Spiritual Healing School. He has studied tarot with many of today’s leading teachers, including Rachel Pollack, Mary K. Greer, Robert Place, Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone, and Ferol Humphrey. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Metrosource. A teacher of Kabbalistic tarot, he lives in New York City.

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