"1844: American Apostles"

"1899: Mother Horne, Utah's First Lady of the Arts"

"1826: The Treasure Seekers"

"1881: Aunt Zina, The Comforter"

"1928: Minerva Teichert: Artist, Mother, Rancher"

Manti Temple Terrestrial Room Imagine the Catholic Church painting over the Sistine Chapel walls and ceiling... ​The world would not...

The Holiness to the Lord Parchment appears to have been designed for the purpose of summoning angelic beings.

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.

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.

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.

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