Reviews
“Tarot and the Gates of Light will undoubtedly rise in ranks to become an authoritative text on Kabbalistic tarot. One of the most accessible guides, Tarot and the Gates of Light is itself encoded with the power to augment and deepen any tarot practice. Easily one of my favorite tarot books.”
—Benebell Wen, author
Holistic Tarot
★★★★★
Five-star reviews
from readers on Amazon.
“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 this book is openhearted and challenging, ecumenical and ethically astute. It has the potential to set us on the path to enlightenment.”
—Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ph.D., author
The Jewish Book of Days
+ The Omer Calendar of Biblical Women
“This is not a book you will want to part ways with after 49 days, rather it serves as a lifelong guide, emblematic talisman, and faithful companion for your ever-unfolding journey on the path of enlightenment.”
—Sasha Graham, author
365 Tarot Spreads
+ Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot
“Mark Horn has distilled decades of study and practice into a journey of archetypes and images that is powerful, healing, and transformative. Tarot and the Gates of Light is a road map for anyone of any background to follow. So sit, read, study, and follow this step-by-step path from bondage to liberation, and you will find yourself growing into the wise, embodied soul you really are.”
—Andrew Ramer, author
Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud
and coauthor of
Ask Your Angels
“Mark Horn’s brilliant new book opened up a new world for me. I was familiar with both fields of tarot and Kabbalah, but I had never viewed them through the larger lens Mark provides. This unique synergy offers rich psycho-spiritual insights and provides practical processes anyone can apply. May it change the lives of millions of readers.”
—New York Times bestselling author Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.
author of
The Big Leap
“This fascinating book goes further than anyone has gone in linking traditional Jewish Kabbalistic ideas and, more importantly, practices, with Tarot. Mark Horn 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.”
"Mark Horn courageously provides an autobiographical approach to teaching the Kabbalistic practice of Counting the Omer. Tarot and the Gates of Light gives Jews and Christians alike a powerful, accessible tool for advancing personal spiritual growth and development."
—Rabbi Goldie Milgram, author
Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice
“Mark has given a profound gift and ‘technology’ to the serious seeker: an erudite, yet highly accessible and engaging, compendium of knowledge and wisdom teachings and, most importantly, a dedicated path of transformation—one self, one soul, one day at a time.”
Professor Katherine Kurs, M.Div., Ph.D., editor of Searching for Your Soul
“Perfect for those who want to follow a spiritual practice that combines tarot, Hebrew Kabbalah, and personal meditation. It is also a great way to explore the deeper meanings of the Minor Arcana.”
“Spiritual disciplines are like prisms, refracting the ineffable light into radiant diversities of human imagination. This makes Tarot and the Gates of Light a prism within a prism, glittering with Mark Horn’s insights, histories, wit, and wisdom.”
—Rabbi Jay Michaelson, author of God vs. Gay? and The Gate of Tears
“Mark Horn has shattered the old saying ‘there’s nothing new under the sun’ with this unorthodox and ambitious work. Tarot and the Gates of Light presents the rare opportunity to find liberation through a serious and meaningful ancient practice refined over the centuries. Tarot and Kabbalah are wedded together as never before—in perfect harmony and beauty.”
—Angelo Nasios, author of Tarot: Unlocking the Arcana
Like many LGBTQ people, Mark Horn’s book, Tarot and the Gates of Light, crosses boundaries—yes, it’s a book about tarot and Kabbalah that’s also a spiritual workbook. But it’s also a spiritual memoir that includes Horn’s early experiences as an activist in the post-Stonewall LGBTQ movement. He brings a decidedly queer perspective to the journey within, inviting each reader to bring their whole self, including their sexuality, on the quest for a liberation that’s political, sexual and spiritual all at the same time. By sharing his practice with vulnerability and humility, he offers the LGBTQ community a new way to come home to our deepest selves.
—Mark Segal, author of And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality
This is a wonderful, fully engaging book about love, sexuality, and spirituality, using the Tarot and Kabbalah as always relevant sources for human enlargement and spiritual growth. Mark Horn presents his own spiritual practice and journey through the candid lens of his own queerness—from the bar mitzvah boy who realized he was gay to an adult seeking and finding intimacy with other men. No matter where you find your place in the lgbtq tent, this book will speak to you.
—Perry Brass, author of How to Survive Your Own Gay Life, King of Angels, and
The Manly Art of Seduction.