Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom

The book that changed how a generation learned to read Tarot — and still hasn't been surpassed.

Rachel Pollack's Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom is the most celebrated Tarot study guide in the English language — a deep, psychologically sophisticated exploration of all 78 cards of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck that treats the Tarot as a living system of symbols rather than a fixed set of meanings. Pollack writes with the clarity of a teacher and the depth of someone who has spent decades with the cards.

Inside:

• The Major Arcana as a journey of consciousness and transformation
• The Minor Arcana examined suit by suit, card by card
• The psychological and mythological dimensions of each card's imagery
• How to read the cards in combination and in spread
• The Fool's journey as a framework for understanding the Major Arcana

Accessible without being shallow. Deep without being obscure. The essential companion for anyone working seriously with the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition.