{"product_id":"seventy-eight-degrees-wisdom","title":"Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom is top tarotist's secrets to personal growth, one card at a time. The two volumes of Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom have inspired a whole generation of tarot students. It has often been described by readers, booksellers, and teachers as the \"Bible of tarot readers.\" Often cited as one of the landmark books in modern tarot, helping to launch the \"Tarot Renaissance\" of the 1980s. The two texts one for The Major Arcana and one for The Minor Arcana appear together in this volume.  A reissue of the 1998 edition first published by Thorsons. This book draws on mythology and esoteric traditions and delves deeply into the symbolism and ideas of each card. It also gives the cards a modern psychological slant based on the pictures rather than a system of occult symbolism. This endlessly useful reference tool provides a concise history of tarot, introduces common spreads, and is a clear and readable book for both the beginning and advanced tarot student.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom is an essential part of every Tarot library. Some even refer to it as the “Tarot Reader’s Bible.” Using images from the popular Rider Waite deck, Pollack shares the in-depth meaning of each card. She examines it from several differing aspects in terms of the symbolism, mythological, astrological, numerological, historical and psychological. It also focuses on readings, not simply as predictions, but rather as a way of discovering ourselves, and beyond that, the spirituals wonder of life. This Tarot journey to self-awareness is organized into three parts for easy reference: major arcana, minor arcana and readings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cimg alt=\"major arcana, tarot deck, the fool, magick, magician, high priestess, tarot cards,\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media\/vc\/ac66b139-4e4b-49bf-9d2f-4e426e7afe95._CR0,0,1042,1042_PT0_SX300__.png\" class=\"alignleft\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePart One: The Major Arcana\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe purpose of the Major Arcana is twofold. First of all, by isolating the elements of our lives into archetypes. Enabling us to see them in their pure forms, as aspects of psychological truth. Secondly, it helps us to truly resolve these different elements. In reality, perhaps the innocence symbolized by the Fool never existed. Somehow, we experience as something lost. The Major Arcana tells us how to get it back. \u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0576\/5896\/6187\/files\/partTwo_480x480.jpg?v=1632921582\"\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cimg alt=\"minor arcana, fortune teller, tarot reading\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media\/vc\/d0c869d5-551e-47eb-a10a-3605d745dab4._CR0,0,1043,1043_PT0_SX300__.png\" class=\"alignleft\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: The Minor Arcana\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Tarot demonstrates many things, some very unexpected. These things emerge through interpretation of the Tarot’s images, through joining those images in meditation, and through seeing the combinations formed in readings. Taken separately, the cards of the Minor Arcana present us with a grand panorama of human experiences. Together, and in union with the archetypal Major cards, they draw us into ever wider knowledge of the changing wonder of life. \u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0576\/5896\/6187\/files\/partThree_480x480.jpg?v=1632921617\"\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e      \u003cimg alt=\"celtic cross reading, tarot reading, fortune telling, tarot readings\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media\/vc\/52d8b470-6e9b-43e7-84a6-5ec660dbfd1b._CR0,0,1043,1043_PT0_SX300__.png\" class=\"alignleft\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePart Three: Readings\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadings teach us a general lesson as well as a very important one. In a manner no explanation can possibly equal, they demonstrate that no card, no approach to life, is good or bad except in the context of the moment. Giving readings gives each person a chance to renew his or her instinctive feeling for the pictures themselves. All the symbolism, all the archetypes, all the explanations given prepares you to look at each picture and say, “This card tells me…”          \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eProduct Detail:\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781578636655. \u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 368 pages. \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Weiser Books, Published Date: March 2019 Third Revised Edition. \u003cbr\u003eSize: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches, Weight: 1.2Lbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0576\/5896\/6187\/files\/pollack_rachel_2bd5faf5-def8-4906-8caa-d8241e42bcef_480x480.jpg?v=1626191459\" class=\"alignleft\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"374\" width=\"252\" alt=\"Rachel Pollack\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0576\/5896\/6187\/files\/pollack_rachel_480x480.jpg?v=1647360423\" class=\"alignleft\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eRachel Pollack (1945-2023) was the leading light and foremost influence on modern Tarot. Her bestselling book, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSeventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom\u003c\/span\u003e, published in 1980  is widely described as the “Bible of Tarot.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eA prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction, her other books include \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Walk Through the Forest of Souls, Unquenchable Fire, Godmother Night, \u003c\/span\u003eand \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Fissure King\u003c\/span\u003e. She was the creator of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Shining Tribe Tarot\u003c\/span\u003e and wrote the books for numerous other decks, including \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Vertigo Tarot \u003c\/span\u003eand \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSalvador Dali's Tarot\u003c\/span\u003e. Pollack taught at the famed Omega Institute for over thirty years.   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0973\/4583\/1187\/files\/breakimage.avif?v=1770569579\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aquarius Rising","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53456229564691,"sku":"9781578636655","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0973\/4583\/1187\/files\/584d2fdd-9781578636655.jpg?v=1770133420","url":"https:\/\/aquariusrising.net\/products\/seventy-eight-degrees-wisdom","provider":"Aquarius Rising","version":"1.0","type":"link"}