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Eyes of the Tarot is a juvenile fiction novel written by American author Bruce Coville. The book is a mystical adventure made richer by accurate descriptions of tarot cards as well as techniques for utilizing the cards and Coville's suggested interpretations. In many ways, the heroine's experiences with the figures from the tarot mirror those found in Russian occultist P.D. Ouspensky's 1913 book The Symbolism of the Tarot.

One notable technique for utilizing the cards involves sleeping with a specific card inside your pillowcase in order to commune with the figure on the card while dreaming. Occult author Travis McHenry has frequently cited the book as inspiring him to purchase his first deck of tarot cards, a Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck in 1993. He subsequently published more than a dozen tarot and oracle decks. Bruce Coville wrote the forward for McHenry's 2025 book An Occult Guide to the Tarot.

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Death trionfi

• ... that the Death tarot card was derived from an earlier trionfi?
• ... that descriptions of Mammon closely resemble those of Lucifuge Rofocale?
• ... that the Abbey of Thelema was so unsanitary one of Crowley's followers died?
• ... that Islamic clergy consider members of the Baháʼí Faith to be apostates?
• ... that Remen Hery Sah represents purification?
• ... that Galileo Galilei wrote his most influential work while under house arrest?
• ... that at least three fallen angels were members of the choir of Virtues?
• ... that the Oracle of Amun was built to align with the fall and spring Equinox?

This month in history Saint Joan of Arc 2 May - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. (1536) 2 May - German Jesuit scholar and author Athanasius Kircher is born. (1602) 3 May - Occult horror film The Craft is released in theaters. (1996) 4 May - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. (1415) 7 May - Argentine folk saint Eva Perón is born. (1919) 8 May - Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War. (1429) 9 May - Austrian painter Christoph Haizmann successfully retrieves his diabolical pact from Satan with the help of an exorcist. (1678) 9 May - Doug Headrick, a 12-year-old boy, disappears from Devil's Gate Dam in Pasadena, California. (1960) 10 May - Antoine Court de Gébelin, author who wrote an early treatise on the Tarot, dies in Paris. (1784) 13 May - Psychic Jeane Dixon predicts the assassination of John F. Kennedy in an issue of Parade Magazine. (1956) 15 May - French author Jean-Baptiste Pitois, who coined the terms Major Arcana and Minor Arcana, is born. (1811) 16 May - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc. (1920) 19 May - Arthur Edward Waite, creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot, dies. (1942) 23 May - A merchant of Shiraz, the forerunner of the Baháʼí Faith, announces that he is a prophet and founds a religious movement. (1844) 23 May - German physician and astrologer, Franz Mesmer, is born. (1734) 24 May - Nicolaus Copernicus dies. (1543) 26 May - Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia. (1896) 31 May - Occultist and author Éliphas Lévi dies. (1875)

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