Summary

Eden Gray (1901–1999), born Priscilla Pardridge, was a pioneering American tarot author and metaphysical teacher.

• Popularized the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck in the U.S.

• Wrote accessible guides like Tarot Revealed (1960), The Tarot Says Welcome (1970),
  and A Complete Guide to the Tarot (1971).

• Earned a Doctorate of Divinity from the First Church of Religious Science—a New Thought denomination.

Her work helped bring tarot out of the occult shadows and into the realm of personal growth, psychology, and spiritual development.

It was Eden Gray to whom we owe the term “Fool’s Journey,” appearing as the title of the Epilogue in A Complete Guide to the Tarot. She explained:

“The Fool represents the soul of everyman, which, after it is clothed in a body, appears on earth and goes through the life experiences depicted in the 21 cards of the Major Arcana, sometimes thought of as archetypes of the subconscious. Let each reader use his imagination and find here his own map of the soul’s qust, for these are symbols that are deep within each one of us.”