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Pollack was born on August 17, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
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Renowned author Rachel Pollack has spent more than forty years studying and practicing Tarot. This insightful guide distills her vast knowledge and offers a direct, accessible approach to mastering the cards. This book will teach you the meanings of the cards and enable you to begin doing compelling readings right away. More seasoned readers will find that this basic reference has a richness and depth that will call you back again and again to discover your own truth within the cards. Find new descriptions and divinatory meanings with a modern twist Learn not only what each card signifies, but how to discover what it means to you Enhance your understanding of the cards with information about numbers, elements, astrology, and Kabbalah Try the unique spreads inspired by each Major Arcana card Understand Tarot's rich history, including Eden Gray's immense influence
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Pollack was born on August 17, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Pollack holds an honours degree in English from New York University, a Masters in English from Claremont Graduate School.
Pollack’s first novel, Golden Vanity, was published in 1980, but attracted little attention—David V. Barrett, in Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, called it neglected. It would be another seven years before Pollack published her second entry in the genre, Alqua Dreams.
Golden Vanity, according to Barrett, is a traditional science-fiction yarn with New Age overtones: while describing first contact between earthlings and aliens, he also delves into the terrain of meditation and religious self-deception. Pollack’s Alqua Dreams establishes a traditional science-fiction premise, in this case an interstellar trader’s attempt to establish trading links with a new planet in order to obtain an intelligent mineral used in spaceship drives. However, Pollack’s second novel’s ambitious underlying philosophical theme is, in Barrett’s words, “the age-old debate between Platonic and Aristotelian life-views.”
Pollack’s next novel, Unquenchable Fire, brought her the highest critical acclaim of any of her fiction to that point. Even so, the novel took several years to find a U.S. publisher.
Aspects of the plot are familiar to fantasy and science fiction readers, however, as Publishers Weekly pointed out, for the book describes a future United States (Dutchess County, New York, to be specific) in which the laws of the universe have changed and magic reigns.
Pollack’s next novel, 1994’s Temporary Agency, is actually two linked novellas, and acts as something of a sequel to Unquenchable Fire in that it assumes a knowledge of the magical beings who ran human affairs in the earlier book.
Pollack’s next novel, Godmother Night, explored a different fantasy world, one that exists on the back of a giant turtle as if in fulfillment of an ancient myth.
Pollack’s simultaneous careers as an occultist and nonfiction writer have also won her acclaim. She has written a text for a Tarot deck illustrated by surrealist painter Salvador Dali, and has authored The New Tarot, which in “delightful and richly illustrated” fashion, according to Barrett, examines more than seventy commercial Tarot decks of the past generation. In 1986, Pollack published A Practical Guide to Fortune Telling: Palmistry, the Crystal Ball, Runes, Tea Leaves, the Tarot, which was issued in the United States as Teach Yourself Fortune Telling.
Pollack’s wide-ranging introduction to divination deals with palmistry, tea-leaf reading. Tarot, and other methods of foretelling the future from the standpoint of character analysis rather than fortune telling in the strict sense. The author’s thesis is that hidden patterns underlie the seemingly random events that occur in individuals’ lives, examining the apparent randomness, whether in a shuffled deck of cards or in the arrangement of leaves or in other phenomena, will unveil these patterns.
For nearly 20 years Pollack has been teaching seminars with Tarot author Mary K. Greer at the Omega Institute, in Rhinebeck, New York. She has also conducted seminars for several years in California.
Pollack is also a popular lecturer at Tarot seminars and symposiums such as LATS (Los Angeles Tarot Symposium), BATS (Bay Area Tarot Symposium), and the Readers Studio.
She currently teaches creative writing at Goddard College. Her most recent work is included in the anthology called Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Theodora Goss. Pollack has taught English at State University of New York. In addition, Polack has taught at the famed Omega Institute for the past 15 years.
Polack received a 1997 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel winner for Godmother Night.
Pollack's novel Unquenchable Fire even won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best British science fiction novel of 1988.
The novel Temporary Agency was rewarded with finalist status of 1994's Nebula Award competition.
Rachel Pollack is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the modern interpretation of the tarot. She is a Certified Tarot Grand Master (CTGM) with the Tarot Certification Board of America.
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(Haindl draws upon his knowledge of ancient cultures and h...)
(Beloved by nearly half a million Tarot enthusiasts, Rache...)
(Renowned author Rachel Pollack has spent more than forty ...)
(Beloved by nearly half a million Tarot enthusiasts, Rache...)
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(Human beings have practiced the art of divination for mil...)
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Pollack is a member of the American Tarot Association, the International Tarot Society, and the Tarot Guild of Australia.
Pollack is a transsexual woman.
She has accentuated the revelatory aspects of transsexualism, saying that "the trance-sexual woman sacrifices her social identity as a male, her personal history, and finally the very shape of her body to a knowledge, a desire, which overpowers all rational understanding and proof."
