top of page
Spirituality


KING OF CUPS
"1844: American Apostles"
Joshua Baird
Mar 31, 202322 min read


QUEEN OF WANDS
"1881: Aunt Zina, The Comforter"
Joshua Baird
Apr 26, 20229 min read


ASTROLOGY & THE TAROT
Jul 23, 2021 Happy Pioneer Day! Here's a few more pages from my tarot notebook... There's an astrological dimension to every tarot card...
Joshua Baird
Jul 23, 20212 min read


COLOR SYMBOLISM
Mar 15, 2021 I just thought I'd share occasional peaks into my tarot journal... I have dozens of tarot related books and find it very...
Joshua Baird
Mar 15, 20211 min read


THE HOLINESS TO THE LORD PARCHMENT
The Holiness to the Lord Parchment appears to have been designed for the purpose of summoning angelic beings.
Joshua Baird
Feb 20, 20212 min read


THE NAUVOO PENTACLE
Technically speaking the "Nauvoo Star" is a pentacle. If the 5 pointed star contains a pentagon at its center, it's a pentagram. If the pentagram is circumscribed by a circle, it's a pentacle.
Joshua Baird
Feb 7, 20217 min read


THE ELEMENTS OF THE TAROT
Dec 5, 2020 Greetings to all you Sun and Moon patrons! I recognize you might not all be tarot experts, so I thought I would share some...
Joshua Baird
Dec 5, 20202 min read


AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TAROT
The Mormon tradition has a history of mystical belief and practice. In his book Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, celebrated historian D. Michael Quinn lays out abundant evidence for the way church founders and early followers utilized folk magic, astrology, talismans, forms of divination, and, yes, even tarot cards as integrated aspects of their religion.

Sara K. S. Hanks
Oct 19, 20208 min read


"SEEING MYSTERIES IN THE TAROT", BY SARA K.S. HANKS
As a tarot reader, I see myself in each of these cards. I’m The Fool, to be sure, but I am also the structured and rigid Emperor, the open-hearted soul of Strength, a shadowy, nocturnal figure most at home in The Moon. I see similar amalgamations in everyone. Tarot has a unique power to facilitate a befriending of these seemingly disparate parts of ourselves. The simplest way to understand the cards is to recognize how they’ve operated in our own stories.

Sara K. S. Hanks
Jun 30, 20191 min read


"tarot, mormonism & the fool's journey", sunstone symposium slc 2019
The amazing Sara Katherine Staheli Hanks (from Cottonwood Tarot ) and I will be presenting at Sunstone SLC 2019! Our session will be...
Joshua Baird
Apr 28, 20191 min read


TAROT AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
by Nancy Ross FROM EXPONENT II: Nancy Ross Nancy Ross is an associate professor and department chair atUtah Tech University, where she...

Nancy Ross, PH.D.
Nov 19, 20171 min read


APPLYING ANCIENT DIVINATION TO MODERN INTUITION
The process of "Divination" has been around as long as humans have been around. We actually use it everyday. Here's a fascinating...
Joshua Baird
Feb 1, 20161 min read


JOSEPH SMITH'S BIRTHCHART
From https://astro-charts.com/persons/chart/joseph-smith/ Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious...
Joshua Baird
May 1, 20151 min read
bottom of page