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Author of Tarot and the Gates of Light, Mark Horn was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and is a graduate of Lehman College of the City University of New York. As a teenager, he was a member of the Lunarians—the New York Science Fiction Society. He was also a member of Society for Creative Anachronism, where he met Marion Zimmer Bradley, who gave him his first tarot reading and suggested he get his own deck. He started studying and reading tarot when he was sixteen years old.
In 1970, he became an activist in the post-Stonewall LGBT movement as a member of the Gay Liberation Front, the Gay Activist Alliance and as the second chairperson of Gay & Lesbian Youth of New York.
He is a copywriter in the advertising industry having worked at agencies in New York and Tokyo. As a journalist, he has written feature stories for The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and Metrosource magazine. He is also a performing storyteller, and he taught traditional Jewish storytelling in the Prozdor program of the Jewish Theological Seminary for more than ten years. He is the editor/writer of the Stonewall Seder liturgy, a ritual dinner celebrating Jewish Queer Pride, which has been used and adapted by congregations around the United States, as well as in Europe and Australia.
Mark has studied Kabbalah with academic, religious and practical teachers of Kabbalah in organizations ranging from the highly respected to the highly unorthodox, including Professor Elliot R. Wolfson at NYU, Rabbis Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z’’l, at Elat Chayyim and with Jason Shulman in the Non-dual Kabbalistic Healing program of A Society of Souls.
He has studied tarot with many of today’s leading teachers, including Rachel Pollack, Mary K. Greer, Robert Place, Ruth and Wald Amberstone and Ferol Humphrey. He has led classes and workshops in Kabbalistic tarot at conferences and workshops in New York City.
He lives on the Upper West Side in New York City where he is available for private instruction and consultation and can be contacted through his website, GatesOfLightTarot.com
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