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Tarot and the Gates of Light: A Kabbalistic Path to Liberation Paperback – Illustrated, January 7, 2020

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An innovative, spiritual workbook that integrates the Tarot and the Kabbalistic tradition of Counting the Omer

• Explores the origins and meaning of the 49-day Kabbalistic meditative practice of Counting the Omer and how it can lead to spiritual revelation, personal insight, and connection with the Divine

• Reveals the correspondence of the Tarot’s minor arcana with the Sephirot of the Tree of Life and explains how both relate to the Omer meditation

• Provides a daily practice workbook that explores the related Sephirot and Tarot cards for each day, examines their Kabbalistic and spiritual meanings, and provides questions for daily reflection and meditation guidance

The 49-day mystical practice known as Counting the Omer is an ancient Jewish ritual observed between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot (also known as Pentecost). As practiced by Kabbalists, it is designed to cleanse and purify the soul in preparation for spiritual revelation and a personal connection with God. The ritual creates a spiritual inner journey that follows the path of the ancient Israelites from the moment of their physical freedom from slavery in Egypt to the establishment of their spiritual freedom forty-nine days later when they arrived at Mt. Sinai.

Adeptly integrating this mystical practice with the transformative symbolism of the Tarot, Mark Horn uses the ritual of Counting the Omer as a template for a guided meditative practice that gives readers insight into their personal life journey and help in overcoming the issues that hinder their growth and spiritual awakening. Examining the correspondence of the Tarot’s minor arcana with the Sephirot of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, he shows how using the cards in connection with Counting the Omer can unlock the gates to a deep experience of the sacred. In the detailed daily practice workbook section, Horn provides day-by-day descriptions of the 49-day meditative practice of Counting the Omer. He divides the journey into seven week-long segments, which in turn are broken down into seven daily practices. For each day, he explains the related Sephirot and Tarot cards and their Kabbalistic and spiritual meanings, providing the reader with questions for daily reflection, guidance for meditation, and insight from traditional Jewish texts as well as teachings from Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim traditions.

Unveiling the relationship between Tarot and the Kabbalah, Horn shows readers how uniting these two practices can open them to a deeper experience of the Divine.

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"Whether you are interested in tarot or Kabbalah or both, what you will find in this book is spiritual guidance in a very practical form. This is the first book I've come across that brings The Tree of Life into real-world terms that make it truly relevant to my spiritual pursuits. The book offers novices easy access to the complex worlds of tarot and Kabbalah. For experienced seekers like myself, it provides a solid framework in the physical world from which to explore the things that cannot be put into words."
--Anna Jedrziewski, TarotWise.com

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"Mark Horn's Tarot and the Gates of Light: A Kabbalistic Path to Liberation will undoubtedly rise in ranks to become an authoritative text on Kabbalistic tarot. Beautifully written, thoroughly researched, and presenting a bridge between Buddhist and Jewish mysticism, Tarot and the Gates of Light is in itself encoded with the power to augment and deepen any tarot practice. Easily one of my favorite tarot books."
-Benebell Wen, author of Holistic Tarot

"Horn's work displays a deep appreciation of Tarot as a language for the soul, and applies that language to a mystical technology for daily transformation. His book will appeal to diviners and spiritual seekers, kabbalists and New Age practitioners. The practice laid out in the book is open-hearted and challenging, ecumenical and ethically astute. It has the potential to set us on the path to enlightenment."
-Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, author of The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons
 
"This fascinating book goes further than anyone has gone in linking traditional Jewish Kabbalistic ideas and, more importantly, practices, with Tarot. Tarot and the Gates of Light both gives Tarotists a way into Jewish Kabbalah and the contemporary Jewish Renewal movement a way to give concrete form to some of the more abstract ideas about the Tree Of Life. This book is rich in both information and practice. A valuable, and innovative, contribution."
-Rachel Pollack, author 78 Degrees Of Wisdom and Tarot Wisdom

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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Introduction: Kabbalah, Tarot Cards and Counting the Omer--What’s This All About

The Forty-Nine Steps of Spiritual Refinement

How long does it take to make an important change in life? For most of us, making a major change to the direction and compass of our lives takes time and practice. You might want to change a bad habit or build up the discipline to start a daily spiritual practice. You may want to break free of an addiction or overcome negative thinking. You might need time to consider a new direction in life or to heal from a personal tragedy. Whatever your motivation, the many wisdom traditions of humanity offer a wide range of effective practices for personal and spiritual growth. One that has resonated for me personally is the forty-nine-day period known in the Jewish tradition as Counting the Omer, culminating on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, also known as Pentecost, the fiftieth day.

Pentecost is the Greek word Hellenized Jews used to name this period of observance because it simply means “fifty days.” If you’re Christian, you may know Pentecost as the first time the Holy Spirit descended on a group of Jesus’ disciples, including the Apostles. What both traditions share is the connection between Pentecost and revelation. Whatever tradition you come from, this forty-nine-day period of reflection and meditation is a spiritual discipline that can bring great benefit.

When you practice Counting the Omer, you will work to draw down the Divine energies known as the Sephirot in a practice of purification and meditation designed to strengthen your spiritual container. This will gradually open any spiritual blockages so you can feel the Divine flow that is always available to us. The forty-nine steps work in a graduated order, in a kind of spiritual workout regimen, day by day. It is designed to prepare you for a more direct experience of the Divine on the fiftieth day.

Using the Cards

The heart of this book is based on the forty-nine paired combinations of the Sephirot that occur during the Counting of the Omer. For each day of the count I also provide paired combinations of corresponding tarot cards. Because the four suits correspond to the four worlds, there are at least four possible pairings for each day, so that each day you can explore how the Sephirotic combinations affect the energy of that day in each world: spiritually, emotionally, intellectually, and actively.

Each day, read the interpretation for the pair(s) you’re working with that day. In these interpretative essays, I share my own experience with this practice. After each pair you’ll find several questions associated with that pairing. Use those questions either for reflection or your own Pentecost journaling exercise.

You’ll probably want to write your own interpretations, questions, and journal entries based on your own life experience. Each Sephira can be approached from a variety of angles. You may wish to focus on a different facet of the day’s pairing than I have. Go for it!

Week 1: Chesed

The first day of the Counting of the Omer is the second day of Passover--the first full day of freedom for the ancient Israelites escaping the bondage of Egypt. What better place to begin the count than from a place of freedom and gratitude for the loving-kindness (Chesed) that pours forth from the Divine and sustains the world in every moment. This love colors the experience of each day and subsequent Sephira of the first week.

Day 1: Chesed of Chesed--The Fours of Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles.

The first day of the count is Chesed of Chesed--to remind us that on this path it is essential to start with a heart of Loving-kindness for ourselves. Because this is a journey that will take us through all the dark places in our hearts, and we need to remember that, just like the Jews in the desert, we’re going to slip sometime. We’re going to forget to count some days. We’re going to go unconscious in response to the issues the Sephirotic energies can bring up. I’ve done this many times. That’s human nature, and nothing is more in need of Loving-kindness than that. On the second night of Passover, we are figuratively free of Egypt. This was the first day our ancestors were no longer slaves, and since one of the Passover commandments is that we tell the story as though we ourselves were freed this day, we too are no longer slaves. The question is, what are we free from, and what were we enslaved to?

It took a forty-nine-day process for the ancient Israelites to learn how to be free from slavery before they could take on the spiritual responsibility of the Torah. In the next forty-nine days, another of the questions to ask might very well be, what am I enslaved to that I am not yet aware of?

In the tarot suits, the cards that correspond to Chesed are the fours, and the first card to look at on this, the first day, is the Four of Wands, or Chesed in Atzilut. It’s appropriate that the image on this card captures the outpouring of Loving-kindness into the world.

The four wands, with a garland of fruit and flowers, looks like a chuppah. Thus, this image looks forward to the marriage of Israel and the Divine on Shavuot, the ultimate expression of Love and Mercy. Today is a day to meditate on the energy that is released when we go from bondage to freedom. And, it’s a day to bring our expression of Love into the world in ever more creative ways as we join with the Divine as partners in the ongoing act of Creation. Of course, I’m not always feeling so expansive, so when I consider this card I often ask myself where am I reflexively unwelcoming in my life and how is that keeping me enslaved?

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Destiny Books; Illustrated edition (January 7, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1620559307
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1620559307
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.43 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches

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Author of Tarot and the Gates of Light, Mark Horn was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and is a graduate of Lehman College of the City University of New York. As a teenager, he was a member of the Lunarians—the New York Science Fiction Society. He was also a member of Society for Creative Anachronism, where he met Marion Zimmer Bradley, who gave him his first tarot reading and suggested he get his own deck. He started studying and reading tarot when he was sixteen years old.

In 1970, he became an activist in the post-Stonewall LGBT movement as a member of the Gay Liberation Front, the Gay Activist Alliance and as the second chairperson of Gay & Lesbian Youth of New York.

He is a copywriter in the advertising industry having worked at agencies in New York and Tokyo. As a journalist, he has written feature stories for The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and Metrosource magazine. He is also a performing storyteller, and he taught traditional Jewish storytelling in the Prozdor program of the Jewish Theological Seminary for more than ten years. He is the editor/writer of the Stonewall Seder liturgy, a ritual dinner celebrating Jewish Queer Pride, which has been used and adapted by congregations around the United States, as well as in Europe and Australia.

Mark has studied Kabbalah with academic, religious and practical teachers of Kabbalah in organizations ranging from the highly respected to the highly unorthodox, including Professor Elliot R. Wolfson at NYU, Rabbis Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z’’l, at Elat Chayyim and with Jason Shulman in the Non-dual Kabbalistic Healing program of A Society of Souls.

He has studied tarot with many of today’s leading teachers, including Rachel Pollack, Mary K. Greer, Robert Place, Ruth and Wald Amberstone and Ferol Humphrey. He has led classes and workshops in Kabbalistic tarot at conferences and workshops in New York City.

He lives on the Upper West Side in New York City where he is available for private instruction and consultation and can be contacted through his website, GatesOfLightTarot.com

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Yossi

Excellent book

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I highly recommend Mark Horn's book Tarot and the Gates of Light. This is a unique guide to the period known as the Omer, the 49 days between Passover and Shavuos.

Mark Horn has created a guide to using tarot in the light of Kabbalah to accompany us on our journey through the days of the omer, a time which is connected very deeply to the tree of Life, and to working on self-improvement during the days leading up to Shavuos, when the Jewish people, and the world, received the Torah.

Horn's book is well-researched and very well written. It is an inspiring, well- informed guide to helping to understand the synthesis between tarot and Kabbalah. Remember, tarot backwards is Torah! As it says in the Ethics of the Fathers, "turn it over and turn it over, and everything will be found."

I highly recommend this book to serious students of Kabbalah and Tarot.

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Sara L. Mastros

A fabulous book by a Jewish kabbalah scholar and tarot master.

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2023

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When I friend recommended this book, I was leery. I've seen a lot of really badly appropriated books on kabbalah and tarot. But this is a true treasure! Mark Horn's grasp of kabbalah is profound, and deeply rooted in the Jewish tradition. His grasp of tarot is likewise masterful. He is a powerful and evocative writer. However, what's best is the genuine heart and soul of this book; it guides you on a deeply moving, very personal, exploration.

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Chris Goffredo

A great book for self knowledge and growth

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2020

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A wonderful meditation for self awareness and opening up to the divine. This is not your average book about Tarot or Kabbala. The preface reviews basic info, just enough to lay the groundwork of understanding for a 50 day meditation based on the Jewish Omer, which is a meditation done between Passover and Shavout, meant to prepare you for receiving wisdom from the divine. I liked working with this during the traditional time period, but it can be worked on at anytime.

It uses the tools of Tarot and Kabbala, but you don't have to have any previous knowledge to work with this book, nor do you have to belong to any particular religion. I found Mark's candor and openness refreshing and inviting. The self inquiry is open to all.

I had two challenges in my life when I started. This meditation helped me to understand those challenges better and to lay necessary boundaries as well as practice compassion around those issues. I ended up having an amazing dream at the end of the process too, which confirmed a message about my light. Highly recommended.

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Jen

Fantastic guide to counting the omer in a meaningful way

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2023

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I bought Tarot and the Gates of Light as a student of Kabbalah and dreamworker, with a growing interest in Tarot. Despite being a somewhat observant Jewish person in my late 40s, I had never taken on the practice of Counting the Omer before this year. Mark Horn's introduction in the book intrigued me enough to decide to try it for the first time this year, with the book as my guide. I was so moved by Horn's teachings and approach -- every day offered profound reflections that touched me personally. In fact some days the teachings touched so close to home, it felt synchronistic and magical. At the end of the count, I was sad it was over, but left with a deeper understanding of the sefirot as well as the imagery of the Tarot cards. If you are a student of Kabbalah or Tarot, or simply someone on the road to becoming more connected to the Divine, I would highly recommend this book. Looking forward to doing it again next year!

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Mikester

10/10 will do again next vear

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2023

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I just completed my study this morning, and I am so grateful I learned about this book when I did!
Just in time to begin and complete my first vear of the Omer. I've been doing inner child work lately that touches on the way I relate to others and how that relates to my sense of security so I focused on the suits of cups and pentacles this time. So wonderful to learn from a teacher who is also queer and in recovery. This book was so relatable to me. I'm so grateful for it. Thank you!

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Remarkable Journey

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2023

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I'm delighted to give a 5-star review of this book. I had never Counted the Omer before - had never known of the practice until I heard the author, Mark Horn, present his work at a conference earlier this year. I was intrigued, mainly because of my work with tarot, so I bought the book and began at Passover (but you can do it any time, really.) Knowing more about the connection of tarot to the Kabbalistic path, and the Tree of Life, is important in my tarot studies, but there's so much more in this journey. The questions Mark poses every day are extremely challenging but his genuine caring for the practitioner and his willingness to share so much of his own story made me feel that I had a kind companion with me the whole time. I highly recommend this opportunity to explore more deeply who you are, and where that knowledge can take you.

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Profoundly beautiful and accessible resource

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2022

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I’ve just made use of this brilliant gem of a guide through the deepest spiritual and psychological healing purposes of the Omer counting journey, alongside Yael Levy’s book. The fruits of the practice are already manifest, but I’m sure will ripen over time. The book is incredible- well researched and informative, yet also so personal and relational… like a good friend/coach/therapist always present with support and guidance for the practice, right there on the bedside table. I haven’t worked directly with Mark yet but am sure hoping I will. You don’t have to wait until Omer season to get the book and do the practice, but if you are looking at it someday in preparation for your counting…. Buy this Book!

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This book is a game changer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2021

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This book is amazing. I read the reviews before it arrived and they really cemented my purchase. But is was when it arrived that I actually 'got' what people were talking about. If you're looking to do some serious work on yourself through the use of the Tarot, then this is a great book to work with. Then why 4 stars? The condition. It arrived with the front page scuffed and the back pages ripped (see pictures). Amazon really need to check their stock, it's really unacceptable.

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Madi Hansen

10/10 An excellent practical application of Kabalistic Meditation!

Reviewed in Canada on February 28, 2020

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This book gave me significant direction in my Kabalistic studies; it’s incredibly practical & full of wisdom. I will be using it repeatedly, the revelations I have had while participating in the meditations on the Tree of Life have been eye-opening to say the least; do yourself a favour & go through the 7 week process. Totally worth grabbing & adding to your collection if you’re wondering “what next?”

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