Eden Gray was the professional name of Priscilla Pardridge, an American actress, and writer on the esoteric

Esotericism

Esotericism or Esoterism signifies the holding of esoteric opinions or beliefs, that is, ideas preserved or understood by a small group or those specially initiated, or of rare or unusual interest. The term derives from the Greek , a compound of : "within", thus "pertaining to the more inward",...

 meanings of Tarot cards and their use in fortune-telling

Fortune-telling

Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting information about a person's life. The scope of fortune-telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination...

. In the 1960s, Through her books, Gray had an integral part in the creation of the contemporary interest in esoteric Tarot in general, and the Waite-Smith Tarot

Rider-Waite tarot deck

The Rider-Waite tarot deck is the most popular Tarot deck in use today in the English-speaking world . Other suggested names for this include the Rider-Waite-Smith, Waite-Smith, Waite-Colman Smith or simply the Rider deck...

 deck and the Fool's Journey

Quest

In mythology and literature, a quest, a journey towards a goal, serves as a plot device and as a symbol. Quests appear in the folklore of every nation and also figure prominently in non-national cultures. In literature, the objects of quests require great exertion on the part of the hero, and...

 interpretation of the Tarot trump cards in particular. She influenced later writers on the Tarot, such as Mary K. Greer

Mary K. Greer

Mary K. Greer is the author of numerous books on tarot divination which focus on self-exploration and transformation. She has also presented at a number of conferences and run Tarot workshops in various parts of the world....

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Works

• Tarot Revealed: A Modern Guide to Reading the Tarot Cards. Inspiration House, New York, 1960. reprinted, Signet Books 1969
• Recognition: Themes on Inner Perception, Inspiration House, 1969
• A Complete Guide to the Tarot. Bantam Books
  Bantam Books
  Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
  
   and Crown Publishers, New York, 1970
• Mastering the Tarot: Basic Lessons in an Ancient, Mystic Art. Crown Publishers, New York, 1971

Dutch editions

• Het geheim van de Tarot: de magische kaarten die verleden en toekomst onthullen, translated by Wim Gijsen
  Wim Gijsen
  Wim Gijsen was a Dutch science fiction and fantasy writer.-Biography:Wim Gijsen was one of the Netherlands' most successful writers of modern Science Fiction and Fantasy books...
  
  , Kosmos-Z&K, 1996

Sources

Birth information is from the 1910 U.S. Census (on Ancestry.com) and death information is from the Social Security Death Index, also on Ancestry.com.

External Links

• Gray at the Internet Movie Database website
• Mary Greer writing on Gray