Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot Paperback – April 1, 1998

一ヶ月ほど前に、全文和訳完了しました。心理学的な洞察をもとにしたタロット解読本といってもいいかと思います。メジャー・アルカナを7で分割するというのも面白かったし、スプレッドも類書にはないものがのっていて興味深かった。このような本が翻訳・出版されるならば日本のタロット理解もワンランクアップするのではと思うのですが。英文は分かりやすいです。魔術的なものとは違いますが、そうした傾向のものをお求めの方でも買いではないかと思います。『タロット・バイブル』という同じ著者の本も翻訳され出版されていますので、そちらを覗いて気に入ったらこれもいけると思う。タロット・リーダーならば読んで損はなしです。

Rachel Pollack女史は英文学畑の方のようで、教鞭をとったり小説書いたりもなさっている分、この手の本としては若干英語が難しいです…(ま、普段ペーパーバックの実用書を普通に読めていれば、ちんぷんかんぷんというほどではないですが)。 ただ、内容そのものは詩的に美しく、かつ各カードの解釈に智の一面を授けてくれるような、読了後は満ち足りた気分になれる本です。自分自身のリーディングに深みを加えられそう。 もろに入門書として読むよりも、和書から入って洋書のごく基本的なものを何冊かこなし、78枚それぞれの意味が一通り判った辺りで取り組むと、滋養に富んで良いと思います。季節は秋が似合うかな(蛇足)。 Pollack女史が手掛けた入手しやすいものとして、ハインデル・タロットの解説本があるのですが、きっとものすごく面白いんだろうなぁ。デッキと共に、早く手に入れたいです。

The 'experts' are wrong, if you do not absolutely love Tarot already then the reading this going to be overwhelming and boring. From Tarot history, to her occult view points to religion, you are getting FIVE pages for each card. You definitely cannot find the meaning there easily if at all, I haven't. I never could use the meanings she gave, it made no sense to me.I stop reading all the time as I kept buying the wrong material and even gave up on Tarot because of bad advise years ago.Only now I am realizing I only needed a Rider Waite (I also bought another deck from advices I heard from 'experts' and it took me years to realize the problem wasn't in me but in the photoshop-like, intuition killing deck) and the FREE meanings of a great teacher like Joan Bunnings at Learn Tarot dot com. Seriously, that is all I am using and all I need. I do not know when I will get inspired to read this thick BIBLE but everytime I try I can only go through one page, it is just too much if you are practical like me. If you are not interested in history, a lot unnecessary knowledge that you do not even know how the heck you would use in a reading or for this era, then this book is not for you. I am pretty sure I will not hop in the Holistic Tarot band wagon either cause the same 'experts' suggest that too.The book is also very, very poorly made and as soon as I got it I put an extra transparent cover besides covering it with plastic. The pages are yellow and cheap like those grocery shopping romance books. Not a quality product. No consideration or thought is put in it at all. You can feel it. I know this should reflect on the publishing company but there are many Tarot readers commenting on how Pollack's latest book also seemed like a money grabbing product with no tought given to it. I even heard it is this 78 degrees book but rushed into a slimmer version with nothing new so it seems the author found a publishing company that resonates with her.Very overwhelming. If you want to be a Shaman you would write down your dreams or meditate more, you wouldn't need to go back thousands of years of history of everything about Natives. You would just want to get to the god damn practice and some background later - If you fell in love to Shamanism!I do not resonate with the author and will stay away from her books. I have found the reviews exagerated and won't get advices from these 'experts' that recommended it either.Jeanne Fiorini is another amazing Tarot teacher who is giving FREE youtube fun and serious lessons. It is unfortunate I have found such genuine and dedicated teachers only after buying this book. It has been years since I follow my own guidance and as I struggled with Tarot for years I decided to listen to someone else, only to remember why I never do that. If we seek information we always find. I should have waited.After taking Joan Bunning's FREE course (that's right, free meaings and a free course) I will be glad to pay it back and actually BUY her book. All of them. There's no other website I resonate with either. I am a fan already. There is more wisdom in those who sure, sell books and make a living, but know how to be generous enough to give free content. It is nice to support these type of people.