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Rachel Pollack

Rachel Pollack

We are saddened by the loss of Rachel Pollack, a special teacher and longtime friend to Omega, who passed away in April 2023.

Rachel Pollack was one of the world’s foremost authorities on the modern interpretation of the tarot. She published 36 books, including two award-winning novels and the tarot classic, 78 Degrees Of Wisdom, referred to by readers, teachers, and tarot professionals as “the Bible of tarot readers.”

She also designed and drew the The Shining Tribe Tarot, described by Caitlin Matthews as “the crowning jewel of geocentric shamanism,” and (with renowned tarot artist Robert M. Place) she created The Burning Serpent Oracle.

Pollack was a member of the American Tarot Association, the International Tarot Society, and the Tarot Guild of Australia, and was conferred the title of Tarot Grand Master by the Tarot Certification Board, an independent body located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Rachel Pollack was also a poet, fiction writer, and a comic book artist. As a fiction writer, she was bestowed many honors and awards, among them the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction (for Unquenchable Fire) and the World Fantasy Award (for Godmother Night). She was a recommended member of PEN International, and wrote for numerous publications.

Pollack held an honors degree in English from New York University, a master’s degree in English from Claremont Graduate School, and taught English at New York State University. With fellow tarot author Mary Greer, she taught at Omega for more than 15 years.