Kismet, Way Of The Sword, Suit Of Cups, Cards & Divinations Digital Tarot Book Kit. 2021 Edition. by Alchemist Publishing LLC

SUIT OF CUPS DIGITAL TAROT KIT

“A Rock And Roll Divine Comedy”

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD CRYPTOGRAPHIC TAROCCHI a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BYITALY BASS& LEGEND WAY & INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ARTWORKPETE LONDA CREATED FOR FLORENCE, ITALY’S POETGROUP DANTE ALIGHIERI BASS LEGEND PETE SUPREME WAY FACEBOOK PROJECT ©2019 LONDA R. MARKS PUBLISHED BY ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC FOR WORLD OF TAROT®

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC

ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC PRESENTS

KiSMET

WAY OF THE SWORD By Londa R. Marks

Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC ©2019 LONDA R. MARKS PUBLISHED BY ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD “A Rock And Roll Divine Comedy“

MAJOR & MINOR ARCANA

Digital Tarot Cards & Book

“La Folie Ou L’Alchemiste”

Madness or Alchemist

Revised Edition May 2021 Published By Alchemist Publishing LLC PO Box 772, Southern Pines, NC 28388 Major & Minor Arcana Complete Kit ISBN: 1-935615-70-X 978-1-935615-70-5 Major Arcana ISBN: 1-935615-96-3 978-1-935615-96-5 Created at Londa Firenze Art Studio 50123 Firenze, Italy www.LondaFirenze.com FOLLOW US

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

Kismet,OF Way Of The WORLD TAROT ®

LONDA ™ SwordWAY Inspired bySWORD Bass Legend Pete WayFIRENZE & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. OF THE ™ ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING® ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC

FROM THE 1993 ARCHIVES, VISIONARY

Londa R. Marks

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

Information

License. If content is factually incorrect or highly offensive you can edit articles at Wikipedia use of data and may include other wiki’s, stock photos, private archived photos, stock illustrations, and similar sources. Special thanks to contributed photos of rock band UFO and Pete Way from photographer Mike Patton Nashville, TN.

COMPANY NETWORK WorldOfTarot.com is a registered trademark with USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office New York, USA Law Trademark Firm. Alchemist Publishing LLC network includes: AlchemistPublishing.com, WayOfTheSword.com, WayOfTheSword.it - various brands and trademarks. WORLD OF TAROT PRODUCTS Tarot Decks By Londa R. Marks Available At WorldOfTarot.com • • • • • • • • • • • •

THE ALCHEMIST TAROT THE ALCHEMIST TAROT COUNTER DISPLAY THE ALCHEMIST TAROT REVEALED THE ALCHEMIST SPELL TAROT KIT MEDICI TAROT (STANDARD) MEDICI TAROT (EXPANDED) MEDICI TAROT (FINE ART EDITION) RINACSIMENTO TAROCCHI FIORENZA TAROT THE PLATONIC ACADEMY TAROT ANCIENT MAGICK DIVINATION DECK KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

Founded in 1993 Alchemist Publishing LLC publishes digital works through ISSUU, the world’s largest electronic publishing and discovery platform for magazines, catalogs, newspapers. The magazines and other Alchemist Publishing publications and projects are registered with R.R. BOWKER LLC., based in New Providence, New Jersey, and incorporated in Delaware, an exclusive agent for issuing International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) for works to the book trade, including publishers, booksellers, libraries, and individuals; its roots in the industry trace back to 1868. PROJECT INFORMATION ©2019 Londa R. Marks ISBN: 1-935615-70-X 978-1-935615-70-5 www.worldoftarot.com www.londarmarks.com Designed & Written By: Londa R. Marks Concept: Londa R. Marks Subject of Title: Visionary Fiction & Metaphysical Art Style: Montage, Surrealism, Metaphysical Theme: Harlequin-esque, theatrical, rock music, mythological, mystical surrealism. Tarot Reader Level: Advanced Title Subject: Fiction, Visionary & Metaphysical

Kismet, Way Of The Sword, Tarocchi Complete Kit Of Books and Deck Kit InAccessories cludes: • ALCHEMIST TAROT JOURNALS • 80 Cards Major Arcana & Minor Ar• TAROT LAYOUT SHEETS FOR EACH DECK cana • TAROT EMBEDDED FASHION • 22 Cards Major Arcana cards • Cards sized: 2.75” x 4.75” • 2 extra cards per kit Tarot Decks By Londa R. Marks • 5 booklets sized: 2.75” x 4.5” Published by U.S.Games Systems, Inc. • Digital and printed booklets • LONDA TAROT • Physical kit packaged in a beautiful • CROW’S MAGICK TAROT box • CROW’S MAGICK TAROT DECK/BOOK SET • Limited edition 99 (digital & print combined • Signed & numbered KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • Certificate of authenticity “LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST This deck’s divinations, montages and surrealistic • Historic charting CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY inspiration and images may have been drawn from INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR various sources including but notBASS limited toPETE original LEGEND WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT ideas, some entries from Wikipedia, the user-conWaymay Of Thenot Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. tributed encyclopediaKismet, which have been ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC reviewed by professional editors and is licensed un-Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass der an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC a

Catalogs & Video Channel

ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING

Issuu & YouTube

Alchemist Publishing LLC Publishers of thought provoking creativity and innovative learning sources with foundation based in cryptography: The art of writing codes or solving codes; the underlying foundation of Alchemist Publishing LLC. Alchemist Publishing LLC publishes through ISSUU, the world’s largest electronic publishing and discovery platform for magazines, catalogs, newspapers, and other publications. All magazines and Catalogs are registered with R.R. Bowker LLC., based in New Providence, New Jersey, and incorporated in Delaware, an exclusive agent for issuing International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) for works to the book trade, including publishers, booksellers, libraries, and individuals; its roots in the industry trace back to 1868. Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC ©2019 LONDA R. MARKS PUBLISHED BY ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

Dedication

“La Folie ou L’Alchimiste : Madness or Alchemist”

How Tarot, The Tree Of Life, Chooses The Artist

uring 15th century Florence, Italy, Renaissance Cosimo de’ Medici said, “Art and Magic always call to each other.”

Creating magical worlds is what Londa R. Marks does best. Way Of The Sword (Via della Spada) is where Londa’s studio is located in Florence, Italy by chance or, by kismet. It is where her world’s are created. Londa is a visionary of art, music, technology and cryptography: the art of writing codes or solving codes—such as tarot, music and poetic art. Kabbalah, and specifically the Tree of Life, with the Tarot is a type of blueprint to the meanings of the cards and how they are connected. These connections include the energies of the artist’s who are predetermined to create a tarot system because it is an unavoidable destiny. Artist’s articulate this fateful appointment through their empathic intuition but perhaps a more important ingredient includes Biophotons (from the Greek βίος meaning “life” and φῶς meaning “light”) which are photons of light in the ultraviolet and low visible light range that are produced by a biological system. Quantum entanglement says that 2 entangled photons react if one of the photons is affected no matter where the other photon is in The Universe without delay.

The Light Of 3 Artist’s Entwined “From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?” —Friedrich Nietzsche Dante, Pete and Londa. Three artists whose Biophotons were affected no matter where the other photon was in The Universe and came together without delay to create something that generates light. The number three is clearly stated by Dante as significant. An example of Dante Alighieri’s use of the number three is the specific lines of poetry Dante used for his epic work. He used a poetic form known as terza rima. Terza Rima has sets of three-line stanzas in which the first and the third lines rhyme with each other, and the second line rhymes with the first and third lines of the next stanza. Dante so thoroughly believed in the importance of the number three that each stanza spoke to its significance.

• And among other things Dante Alighieri showed up in a dream I had on the first night in Florence when I came to study Medici. Dante hugged me and said, “Welcome home.” This dream was in an apartment on the ancient street of Borgo Santi Aposotoli, across the street from Limbo, a cemetery and church for infants who died before receiving baptism destined to populate Limbo in the afterlife with their souls. The church was founded by Charlemagne 6 April in the year 801. • Dante’s house is close to my studio. • Dante was pushy to enter this tarot development at card: XV Divine Comedy - well, in hindsight, his presence has been from the beginning of my locating to Florence. I named XV Divine Comedy because just as I was developing this card I walked by Dante’s house, a few blocks from my studio, and next to his house was a leather-maker’s shop who had regular playing cards on his desk stacked a red deck on a blue deck as shown on card XV. It was like Dante was saying, “I’m part of this deck - you craft me into it.” Since that day I went back to get a photo of the decks but they were gone. • There was an unexplained urgency/feeling to relocate to Florence to study Medici, but 3 months after locating to Florence I began Rock Legend News magazine due to meeting an avid fan of rock music who worked at Rome airport; he convinced me to do interviews with rock stars. That venture turned into my Rock Legend News magazine. One of the first interviews was with rock and roll bass legend Pete Way founder of the band UFO; a gifted songwriter and musician. Soon thereafter in January 2015, I began Pete Way Facebook Group because of how unique his character is, how inspiring he is, and realized he was a missing puzzle piece my art. Pete was fascinated with David Bowie and David’s artist had just released a tarot deck inspired by David in 2018. At that time I knew I had to create a tarot deck inspired by Pete; he loved the finished deck.

Kismet, Way Of The Sword tarocchi kit was completed in May 2020, was Giclee’ printed and packaged by my artisan son Edward and the first deck shipped June 9, 2020. On August 14, 2020, Pete Way died at age 69. His funeral took place on Further Entwining Keys: September 4, 2020. Dante Alighieri was born: 1265, died September 14, 1321. We know that • Kismet, Way Of The Sword, the name for Dante was a Gemini. It is from the perspective this tarocchi deck was due to the street name of a Gemini that Dante observes our world in my studio is located on (I did not know the his Divine Comedy. He cast actual horoscopes meaning of the street name when I rented my for May of 1265. Astrology was the infrastrucstudio until a year later). Further, Pete Way’s Dante’s poems. Rhyming macrocosm KISMET WAY OFture THEforSWORD name is part of the title. And from Canto IX with microcosm “LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST and the positions of the stars “Describing how in the entrance of purgatory, I with our personal fates. At that moment, the CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY found an angel who with the pointBY ofFLORENCE, the sword starsLONDA wereCREATED extremely INSPIRED ITALY & ARTWORK FOR threatening for any 1265 BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT he carried in his hand and wrote in the foreGemini, which is the whole point in a poem head of Dante: seven P,” perhaps in memory of poet’sPoet “war the stars.” Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legendabout Pete Waythe & Supreme Dantewith Alighieri. his first troubles.” ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC a

—LONDA R. MARKS Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC ©2019 LONDA R. MARKS PUBLISHED BY ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC

Far away a light suddenly appears from which a stranger comes to help the author. It is the soul of Virgil. - Divine Comedy

Virgil & Dante

Kismet, Way Of The Sword

The Poet makes explicit reference to “seven” walls, reminding us of the symbolic meaning of completeness. Noted Dante scholar, Charles Singleton, explains, “Probably the noble castle is best understood as the Castle of Fame, special dwelling of those whose ‘honored name’ has won them a privileged place in Limbo.” Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC ©2019 LONDA R. MARKS PUBLISHED BY ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

Introduction

A Cryptographic Portrayal of a Rock and Roll Divine Comedy

ismet, Way Of The Sword cryptographic tarocchi presents staged theatrical scenarios that can activate creatively charismatic choices for the reader while revealing unexpected answers to any querent’s questions. Tarot as the magical instrument here is highlighted with Dante Alighieri’s romantically poetic Middle Ages words, montaged with art from his Divine Comedy and as Dante points out in his body of work this too includes hidden meanings not accessible to everyone but will be understood by only one who is able to penetrate into the depth of the essence of dynamic visuals of rock music lifestyles woven among mythological and harlequin-esque characters and scenes. It is a deeply Utopian cryptographic portrayal of an artist depicting herself as Music Muse central to a Rock Star and Supreme Poet to enliven a Kismet realization; a surrealistic Rock and Roll Divine Comedy, by Way Of The Sword. Kismet Artist Londa Rae Marks was born February 26, 1952, 10:11am in Marietta, Ohio, the first settlement in the northwest territory. Brief astrological summary: Pisces sun, Pisces moon, Taurus ascendant, Capricorn mid-heaven. On her birthday February 26, 2014, in Florence, Italy, by a fluke or by the hand of kismet, Londa acquired her studio on Via della Spada (Way Of The Sword) - that afternoon at 3PM. Via della Spada, one of a trio of streets shaped like three swords or a Y — with Via delle Belle Donne the right blade, in between is Via del Sole and Via della Spada the left blade and leg of the Y. The three streets connect to Via del Morro. Bella Donna happens to be the title of a UFO song. Morro happens to be the name of a street that connected to Calimali (another street nearby in Firenze) the street Londa lived on in Woodland Hills, California connected to Morro also, where Hawk rock band was developed. On Via della Spada where her studio is: Art, Music & Technology based on Cryptography; The Art of Writing Codes or Solving Codes is the underlying foundation of Londa R. Marks Studio, Firenze, Italy.

The name Hawk was given to the rock band by her ex-husband, Hawk guitarist, Doug Marks, who came up with the name one morning while walking in the hills with vocalist Charles Morrill where they lived on Calimali Rd. Hawk has become a relentless spirit guide offering omens and is seen throughout this deck along with crows and other birds. The band is no longer together but the official Hawk Facebook page founded in 2012 by Londa is still run by her and Doug Marks still sells the Hawk album Londa designed. Crow’s Magick Tarot is a deck Londa created in 1997 for U.S. Games Systems, Inc., also due to her love of crows and how she sees them as a messenger from the magickal plane in the universe, always bestowing messages and great thoughts to us mortals. Harlequin role was definitively popularized by the Italian actor Tristano Martinelli in 1584–1585. The Harlequin is characterized by his chequered costume. The name Harlequin, derived from a demon called Alichino, was cited by Dante Alighieri in Inferno - part of the “Divine Comedy.” Alichino, a member of the Malebranche’s mission is to guard Bolgia Five in the Eighth Circle, the Malebolge - the eighth circle of Hell. Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” also includes his love of music. Throughout Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso began in 1308 and completed in 1320. In his “Divine Comedy” many parallels to the theatre of rock music and art are found. Born in the year 1265 in the city of Florence, Dante Alighieri has been long considered one of Italy’s first romantic figures and greatest poets. Throughout this deck are images of rock god bass legend Pete Way, Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri and Visionary Londa R. Marks. Experience the artists adventures of their Kismet, Way Of The Sword.

* References

Nikki Sixx, Mötley Crüe @nikkisixxofficial April 10, 2014 “Pete was a huge influence of me as a bass player from his early days in UFO and he is one of THE great REAL rock ‘n roll stars we have had.”

The harlequin theme of Kismet, Way Of The Sword, includes a harlequin-esque style that founder of rock band UFO Pete Way has adhered Source to for stage wear much of his life. His style has KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD been emulated by top rock stars like *Nikki Sixx “LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST Steve Harris, Iron Maiden of Mötley Crüe and *SteveCREATED Harris ofAT Iron Maiden. LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY “I’ve been influenced by many bands but UFO was a

INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR one of my favorite bands, BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

that’s for sure. Pete way

It is the hawk who leads the way for Londa, a for me particularly, playing and posing.” co-founder of glam rock band in Los AnKismet, Way Hawk Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC geles CA during the 1980s. Source Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC ©2019 LONDA R. MARKS PUBLISHED BY ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC

Sphere of the Fixed Stars Pt. 3 (Cantos 26-27) Cantando (“singing”). Invocation is overtly generated by song. Justice draws speech from the fount of Wisdome, as does the poet. Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC (Paradiso, Canto III) KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD A Rock And Roll Divine Comedy

LIMITED EDITION 21 TAROCCHI KIT Inspired By Bass Legend Pete Way & Florence, Italy’s Dante Alighieri’s Divine Complete Tarot Kits Includes 78 Tarot Cards & 5 In-depth Booklets Available at www.wayofthesword.com

“Kismet, Way Of The Sword” digital art project was designed by visual artist Londa R. Marks at her Florence, Italy design studio. The project is inspired by rock’s bass legend Pete Way and Dante Alighieri (“the Supreme Poet”) father of Italian language. Collectors of art, music and art history and those who appreciate and seek the magick from such works may find such revealed in this project. Limited edition of 99 deck kits. Each handcrafted by Londa’s artisan son at her atelier in USA. Signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity.

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

Available at WayOfTheSword.com & WorldOfTarot.com

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

“A Rock And Roll Divine Comedy”

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD “A Rock And Roll Divine Comedy”

Kismet, Way Of The Sword Tarot draws from an underlying foundation of cryptography: the art of writing codes or solving codes with stylized characters and scene designs built on a fantasy concept of surreal theatrics, music and poetically magical environments. Inspired by Rock And Roll Bass Legend Pete Way & Florence, Italy’s “Supreme Poet” Dante Alighieri.

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

Kismet, Way Of The Sword - Cryptographic Tarocchi

Reading Digital Tarot Deck & Divinations Cryptography & Digital Tarot Readings “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” —Arthur C. Clarke Art, Music & Technology is Cryptography: The Art of Writing Codes or Solving Codes; the underlying foundation of the author / artist Londa R. Marks Studio, Firenze, Italy. Tuning into the frequencies of the universe with digital technology tarot through ‘sending’ and ‘receiving devices’ (mobile devices), can open unexpected and unknown channels for receiving otherworldly messages, information and connecting with appropriate cosmic guides that resonate with this digital tarot reading while revealing deeper meanings not only for you but also for those you are connected with on earth. After all, isn’t that what we use tarot for, tuning into the universe? It can be a clearer and broader path with technology and frequencies than with paper. Tarot includes important messages within its code, cryptography and frequencies universally structured and intertwined with our souls. Digital Tarot Readings bring us one step closer to being in sync with frequencies of the universe and its specific messages for us independently and collectively.

How To Perform Digital Tarot Readings We are all at-one with our technology devices because we intuitively know our ‘messages’ are there, all messages, not just with Planet Earth but with the universe too. So, instead of shuffling paper tarot cards, go a step further and ask the universe to tell you what page numbers in Kismet, Way Of The Sword Digital Tarot have your cards’ answers for your tarot reading questions. • Ask the universe for 6 page numbers from list on the right for your digital tarot reading. Either remember the numbers or make note of them. • Select each page number matching the numbers that came to you. These page numbers are your cards with its divination for your Digital Tarot Reading. • Instead of reversed cards use the reverse divination in the reading to alert the querent that this could occur.

Choose Tarot Card Page Number The page numbers on this list correspond to a tarot card from Kismet, Way Of The Sword Major and Minor Arcana cards. Select 6 page numbers to do a 6 Card Layout Reading or select any numbers for custom tarot reading.

30 32 34 36 38 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 70 74

76 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 96 100 102 104 106 108 110 114 116 118 120 124 126

6-Cards Layout Guide All cards sum up your Digital Tarot Reading 1. First position card represents the nature of your question. KISMET WAY OFyour THEquestion. SWORD 2. Second position card represents what is influencing “LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST 3. Third position card is what has past and influenced your question. CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY 4. Fourth card influences your future in relation to your question. INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT 5. Fifth card has to do with the hopes of thePETE outcome. 6. The sixth card influences all cards and outcome. Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. a

©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC ©2019 LONDA R. MARKS PUBLISHED BY ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC

128 130 132 134 136 138 140 142 144 146 148 150 152 154 156 158 160 162 164 166 168

170 172 176 178 180 182 184 186 188 190 192 194 196 198 200 202

Kismet, Way Of The Sword

World Of Tarot® Digital Tarot Readings Cards & Divinations Card on left page. Divinations on right page (as seen below).

Divinations Kismet, Way Of The Sword Tarocchi includes Major & Minor Arcana cards with divinations.

Examples:

Click to Turn Page

Search Digital Cards & Divinations

Click For Full screen

Page Numbers

Slide to Page Numbers

Enlarge/Reduce Page Images and Text

Cards & Divination Example

Tarot Tip The Major Arcana conveys a higher purpose. The Minor Arcana relates to everyday matters.

Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante ©2019 PUBLISHING Londa R. MarksLLC Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC ©2019 LONDA R. MARKS PUBLISHED BY Alighieri. ALCHEMIST

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

Kismet, Way Of The Sword - Cryptographic Tarocchi

How To Read a Printed Tarot Deck

“S

Quick 3-Card Layout • Shuffle your deck of cards while thinking of a question you would like it to shed light on. Sometimes a card will fall out while shuffling. Put that card in its proper position; past, present or future — if using a 3-card layout for your reading. If more than one card falls out you could either use three of the cards or put them back in the deck and shuffle again until one card falls or when you feel you should stop shuffling and want to pull a card. • Skilled card readers understand fundamentals of tarot while evaluating card layout perspectives and assimilating answers discovered from the tarot deck’s art. Collectively a richly insightful evaluation can be realized for what the layout wants to convey. • Refer to the booklet for its particular divinations but rely on card details, its art, characters, colors, numbers, symbols and feelings you receive from each card to help determine its meaning and story. Each card in itself is a mood, a stage, a world.

Quick 3-Card Reading

PAST

Example of a 3-card layout tarot reading with the cards on the right: Present: It may feel like you took a chance and threw the dice which is turning into a chaotic situation. Past: Looking back, a decision was made. The number 3 may have played a role in a decision but there were signs of karmic fate. Future: Ultimately, it is obvious that the past and present were supposed to happen as they did. This will be realized in an outcome better than expected.

Example D

III ST Divinat Numbe sions. F

Since Mt. Purgatory is situated on the

arth, it is explicitly linked to earthly time,

which is calculated musically. I seemed to hear... I wrote it down, Spirit or breath becomes voices.” —DANTE ALIGHIERI DIVINE COMEDY

PRESENT

FUTURE

Divination References:

TAVES tion: er 3 factors into project deciForesight per future.

PAGE OF DICE Divination: Hell is a region characterized by noise: its proper sound is “shrieks, moans, and lamentation.”

XIX ILLUMINI Divination: Positive mind altering experience. Exceptional outcome. Soul changing for the better. Unexpected gifts.

ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING PRESENTS...

KiSMET

WAY OF THE SWORD “A ROCK AND ROLL DIVINE COMEDY” Tarocchi Kit Created By Londa R. Marks

ismet lies on either side of the blade disrupting surrealistic theatrical scenes

whilst the muse of music invokes mythological metal-gods cryptographically weaving them into a World of Tarot, by Way Of The Sword.

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

View All Videos

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

HED BY ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC

Rare Prints

“KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD” Digital Art Collection

Limited Edition of 9 each. Giclee Prints and Download TIFFs.

View All Prints

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

Rare Prints by Visionary Londa R. Marks

Cards of Kismet

ED BY ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC

Minor Arcana - Suit of Cups

The Major Arcana conveys a higher purpose. The Minor Arcana relates to everyday matters. Part of the "Minor Arcana" Cups, like the other tarot suits, contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king. The tarot suit of cups represents emotions, feelings, subconscious, creativity, intuition and psychic ability. Considered passive, water can be deep or shallow. Cups are all relationships; Love, and the pursuit of happiness. Creative expression even though mostly passive and introverted are some of the traits of this suit. Tarot cards were originally designed for card play and are still used throughout much of Europe to play various Tarot card games. However, in English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. Element of cups is water, the agility of transcending limits. Astrological water signs are: Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. Additionally,

Roman Numerals 1I 2 II 3 III 4 IV 5V 6 IV

7 VII 8 VIII 9 IX 10 X 11 XI 12 XII

13 14 15 16 17 18

XIII X IV XV XVI XVII XVIII

19 20 21

XIX XX XXI

Kismet, Way Of The Sword Minor Arcana Four Suits

Cups - Water P Love, Heart, Empathy - Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio Swords - Air M Mind, Observation, Challenge - Gemini, Libra, Aquarius Staves - Fire N Creativity, Action, Spirit - Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Dice - Earth O Home, Health, Wealth - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

The Difference Between Magic & Magick • Magic is what a magician does on stage. • Magick is connecting with metaphysical energies.

CUPS Cups in Tarot cards are related to astrological signs of Water: Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio. The very nature of Cups is seductive and elusive. The element of water rules the Cups. Just as water takes on the form in which it is contained, so too does the meaning of the Cups take on the form of the one who is observing them.

MiRROR

ACE

iMAGE

Abundance

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

ACE OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination A medieval wine goblet holds a radiant Mythical White Hawk from another world of strength and courage. Cæsar in arms, Suetonius says of Cæsar that he was of fair complexion, but had black and piercing eyes. Brunetto Latini, Dante Alighieri’s teacher, says in his Tesoro, of the hawk here mentioned—the grifagno—that its eyes ‘flame like fire.’ And, ‘cursed hawk, preserve thy distance!’ said He is about to claw me on the skin.’ To claw in turn; together then the two Plunged in the boiling pool. The heat knew full well How to unlock their fierce embraces. From a booklet of magick eleven arcane sigils resembling musical notation bars underline excerpts from La Divina Commedia; Dante Alighieri’s Manuscrito (manuscripts) — 1301-1400, Canto XXXIII of the Paradiso. The number 13 at top right reduces to number 4. Connected with the number 4: 40, 400, 4000, a geometric sequence; infinite series with finite sums. The Ace of Cups brings gains with affections and adoration for the object of desire and sharpens the edges of the hardest of heart through grinding and honing the five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch, but above all: intuition, in order to synchronize souls. Heart is planted in the foundation below the cup among emblems from La Divina Commedia; Dante Alighieri’s manuscript, with eternal symbolism. Card upright keywords: Rapacious. Ravenous. A Holy Divine Truth revealed. Card reversed keywords: The strongest love is an unspoken truth.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

.2 SEER'S

P PATH

C lockwork

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

ii OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination Transitional moments in the Paradiso, the Holy Song of the souls of the Heaven of Venus. These souls have just arrived in the third heaven from the Empyrean: Those divine lights leaving the ride first started in them high Serafini; and within those whom I will appear before it sounded “Hosanna” yes, which unique then I was not disappointed to hear again. A curtain is drawn on a stage where the play is now behind the two becoming one interchanging souls’ energies presenting to spirit, the majesty of white hawks sight and aligning with the seers path through sanctification—making that which is holy, sacred. In the Paradiso descriptions of clockwork in Canto XXIV (lines 13–18), and Thales’ theorem about triangles in Canto XIII (lines 101–102): Although the image in the farthest glass will be of lesser size, there you will see that it must match the brightness of the rest But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars. Card upright keywords: One heart, one soul. Ecstacy. Serafini (angels being closest to God.) Card reversed keywords: Timing.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

.3 TRE

iii

P PASSI

Dante's Sonnet

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

iii OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination Hand notated music of “Sonett von Dante Alighieri” hangs at the doorway above the goddesses, in front of the music god. This music piece is located in Italy. Dante was a contributor. Accompanied by the singing of angels they walk this distance; that of three volleys of arrows, as before with “tre passi” (three steps). In his most important work, the Divine Comedy, Dante shows his passion for music by giving readers symbols and musical metaphors; through music he addresses the main topic of the poem: the Love of God. The division of music into mundana (the harmony of the spheres and the cosmos), humana (the harmony of the human being) and instrumentalis (music performed by the instruments), indicated by the philosopher Boethius. And the sciences of the Quadrivio (astronomy, arithmetic, geometry and music) are the cultural frameworks in which the Divine Comedy unfolds. The Florentine poet conceives the order and proportion of the human being and the universe in perfect harmony but when he speaks of music he leaves the numbers and proportions to give space to sensitivity and feelings. The passion and knowledge of music are also found in another of his works, the Convivio: “Music still draws the human spirits, which they are heart vapors, so that they almost cease from any operation; one is the whole soul when he hears it, and the virtue of all it almost runs to the sensitive spirit that receives the sound.“ The Divine Comedy is a spiritual path that leads from sin to redemption; also the art of sounds follows this path. The infernal noises are “purified” by the melody and harmony to reach the polyphony of Paradise in which the souls cheer with their songs, Dante and Virgil! Card upright keywords: Paradise. It is not a question of harmony, order, nor of music; Simultaneous noises dominate the infernal circles: “tragic resonating of sighs and tears and high troubles.” Three cups hold Dante’s books: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Card reversed keywords: Metamorphosis. A new circle; “And a sweet melody ran for the bright air.”

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

.4 PR iViLEDGED

P ZONE

Cultural Transmission

Priviledged Zone

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

iV OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination Cultural transmission, textual and oral transmission that carries ideas across cultural boundaries: Stazio in Purgatorio 22 in Inferno 4: “Averoìs, che ’l gran comento feo” (Averroes, who made the great Commentary (Inf. 4.144). Dante thus concludes his roll-call of the great who are excluded though virtuous with philosopher and commentator of Aristotle, responsible for the transmission of Aristotle to the Latin West, a form of cultural transmission of enormous value to Dante personally.

This canto is reserved for the first circle of Hell, which in Dante’s Hell contains the space that theologians call “Limbo.” Dante’s treatment of Limbo is anomalous in the history of the idea of Limbo. Dante’s treatment of Limbo is in fact radical. The Light of Limbo burns from a radical source.

Dante emphasizes the special status of the souls whom he places in his (non-traditional) Limbo. Limbo means “edge.” Limbo was imagined by theologians to be a privileged zone of Hell where the only punishment is deprivation. We have now entered the first circle of Dante’s Hell. Dante the poet goes out of his way to exploit the tension between the special status of the souls of Limbo and the reality that this is the first circle of Hell.

Music can shape a world to resemble Limbo and present gifts otherwise not found.

Card upright keywords: A privileged zone of Hell.

Card reversed keywords: Punishment is deprivation.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

.5 BL iND iNG

P SORROW

The Gate of Trials

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

V OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination As Dante grew older and matured, and realized that his love for Beatrice would never be consummated, his love for Beatrice turned more into a love of writing. Due to Dante’s maturity throughout his life his definition of love evolves depending on his location throughout The Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, or Paradise. Love is initially mentioned in the first canto of Inferno when Dante the traveler describes the approaching dawn. Dante states, “…when Divine Love first moved those things of beauty” (Inf. I. 40), referring to God creating every living creature on Earth and every object in the universe purely out love and devotion. Dante continues his journey to the gates of Hell, he comes across a sign that states, “…My maker was divine authority, the highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things. Abandon every hope, who enter here” (Inf. III 7-9). Through these gates if one enters where music is found, love, devotion and all trials will be made to those seekers. Card upright keywords: Highest wisdom, and the primal love is the strength not the sorrow. Sometimes we find love where we least expect it. Inevitable breakthrough. Classical eros, as in Vergil’s Eclogue 10, “omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori” (love conquers all, and we too yield to love). Card reversed keywords: Regretting past approaches to love. Blinded by Sorrow. Gate of Trials.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

.6 MYSTiC iSM

P SYMBOL iSM

Kismet's P lot

Q X Y

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

Vi OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination Dante is quite explicit about the challenge he poses the reader at the beginning of Paradiso 2. He tells the reader to turn back to shore, lest we get lost as we follow him onto the watery deep. Obviously it is a story about Pluto, both in terms of the journey through the underworld and of path that leads from the deepest of all agonies and suffering in hell to the highest states of bliss and union with the Creator. The initial recipient of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” was Beatrice, who the writer was in love with. The central point of the poem is the song, where Dante first meets the “perfection.” It’s the 30th song of “purgatory.” 30 is comprised of 3 and 10. If we count from the start, this song is the 64th: 6 + 4 = 10. Before this song there are 63 songs available in the composition (6 + 3 = 9) then 36 (3 + 6 = 9). The poem consists of 145 parts (including the prologue) 1 + 4 + 5 = 10. Dante’s journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso) with the word “comedy” in the classical sense refers to works which reflect belief in an ordered universe, that results in kismet of an ultimate good. The progression of the pilgrimage from Hell to Paradise begins with the pilgrim’s moral confusion and ends with the vision of God. Beatrice’s speeches of Paradiso 1 and 2—both devoted to illuminating the order of the universe—are complementary, book-ends as it were. The speech on the order of the universe in Paradiso 1 illustrates all of creation returning to the One, whereas the speech on the order of the universe in Paradiso 2 illustrates the One emanating into the many. The heavens actualize being—the actualization of being occurs in the ninth heaven. In general, “plot” gets harder and harder to pinpoint. At the same time, if effort is made to look for moments of “plot” in order to orient ourselves in what Dante himself will call, in the next canto, the “pelago” (ocean) of his text. In the opening three lines of the last cantica Dante poses both the borderless unity of the “universe” (whose etymology precisely stresses oneness) and the irreducible reality of difference: The glory of the One who moves all things permeates the universe and glows in one part more and in another less. Card upright keywords: Remember the shore. Contemplate the plot (of D & B - Dante & Beatrice). Mysticism and symbolism of numbers. Kismet, moved by planets.

Card reversed keywords: Paradox of symbolism.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

B iTTER

Vii

P SWEET

Wishes

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

Vii OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination As a prelude to Paradiso 8 and 9, let us note that we are now in the heaven of Venus, named after the classical goddess of love and eros. Dante features a typology of many kinds of love in this heaven: You loved me very much, and you had good waves; that if I had been down, I showed you of my love more than the branches. ( Par . 8.55-57) You loved me much and had good cause for that; for had I stayed below, I should have showed you more of my love than the leaves alone. You who ‘ntendendo’ is a poem about conflict, the conflict experienced by the poet between his love for Beatrice — his mystical, spiritual, and poetical interests — and the other chief interests of his life. Paradiso VIII 93: How can a bitter fruit come from a sweet seed? Voi that ‘tending’ the third heaven move: We turn with heavenly principles of a turn and a turn and a thirst, to whom you of the world already said: ‘You who’ moving the third heaven move ‘. . . ( Paradiso VIII 34-37) Card upright keywords: Poetic desires. Wishes. Card reversed keywords: Dante’s treatment of the heaven of Venus: a heaven where love is what we expect, and what we want, but not what we receive.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

LUXURY

Viii

BLESS iNGS

Poetic Principles

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

Viii OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination The door is closed. Hands are emptied, one last cup lays in front of it as a reminder of being finished. She looks towards a new sound, a new path. I shine here because this planet’s radiance conquered me. But in myself I pardon happily the reason for my fate; I do not grieve and vulgar minds may find this hard to see. (Paradiso IX 32-36) The next to speak is the troubadour, “The final soul is the brightest star in this heaven focused on Florence and the Vatican.” “God can see all,” I said, “and, blessed spirit, your vision is contained in Him, so that no wish can ever hide itself from you. Your voice has always made the heavens glad as has the singing of the pious fires that make themselves a cowl of their six wings: why then do you not satisfy my longings? I would not have to wait for your request if I could enter you as you do me.” Card upright keywords: “Sail enchanted and together in Merlin’s boat to its highest level, (Purgatorio XXIII 116).” Card reversed keywords: This heaven, where the shadow cast by earth comes to a point where the first soul to be taken up triumphed yet ends with despair even as the brightest soul in this sphere.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

.9 RED

P ELECTR iFiED

You Who Are Light

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

iX OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination Nine cups electrified with red energies between “second stories and iconographics;” and Dante displayed red cards, Florence. On the reverse side of the first wheel: Excelcis (Glory to God) from the mountains infinitas.” The first lines are repeated in reverse for the other side of the wheel. Or you who thirst, you who are light ... Here you have finished the treatise of paradise and the comedy of dances Aligherii of Firenze. I’m grateful. Amen (h. 187v) Initials in red and black. Capitals in blue and red. Iconographic imagery & symbolism outline the story La divina commedia, Divina commedia from Manuscrito of Author Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). In ermine tails and rabbit furs, black velvet, diamonds and rubies she is well-fashioned and carrying a page of the Divina Commedia for her pass through metamorphosis in order to awaken on the other side - the good side of karma. Card upright keywords: Good karma side of wheel. For happy, death or grief, red for love and passion. Card reversed keywords: Bad karma side of wheel.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

ONE

X i

.10

P L iGHT

Paradiso

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

X OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is considered one of the greatest poems of Europe’s Medieval Period. It builds on Thomas Aquinas’s Scholasticism, which linked the secular world of philosophy and reason with the religious world of faith and theology. According to Scholasticism you need both reason and faith to reach truth. Within the Light’s depths I saw gathered together, Bound by love into a single volume, Pages that lie scattered through the universe Substance and accidents and their relations I saw as though they fused in such a way That what I say is but a gleam of light. The universal pattern of this knot I believe I saw, because in telling this, I feel my gladness growing ever larger. One moment made slips my memory more than Twenty-five centuries robbed from the adventure That awed Neptune with the shadow of the Argo. So my mind, held in absolute suspense, Was staring fixed, intent, and motionless, And by its staring grew the more inflamed. Within that Light a person is so changed It is impossible to give consent Ever to turn from it to other sights Card upright keywords: But by the sight that gathered strength in me as I gazed on, what was One in appearance was altering for me as I was changing. In the profound and shining-clear existence of the deep Light appeared to me three circles, or nine. Card reversed keywords: Radiance within that living Light on which I looked.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

.11

MERCURY

PAGE

ARCHANGEL

The Caduceus

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

PAGE OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination A page from Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia. Foligno (Italy): Johann Neumeister, 1472 reveals that the third cantica of la Commedia by Dante Alighieri of Florence begins called Paradiso Canto VIIII first in that principal author has a problem with the canto invoking poetic science. To Gloria, he says that a need for you penetrates and shines in one part more and less in others of the sky that takes most light. It was I and you laughing who appreciates and defends our deep intellect so much that retro memory cannot. Truly how much of the kingdom in my mind could make theophorus (bearing or carrying a god) now allow me to make my song. The Page Of Cups holds The Caduceus Winged Rod With Twisting Serpents. Practitioners of ancient Egyptian medicine would often use snakes as a symbol of protection in their magical healthcare rituals. In ancient mythology, the Caduceus was wielded by several analogous deities within their respective cultures; Hermes in Greek mythology, Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology, and Mercury in Roman mythology. In every case, this serpentine staff represented negotiation and commerce; the two snakes symbolizing a balance in transactions. Within Egyptian and Greco-Roman culture, the Caduceus itself was not in any way considered a symbol of health or protection. The message he holds is poetic, romantic and healing: “Where Mercury returns from the underworld carrying the symbol of medical profession the caduceus, of which guild Dante was a member, and Dante has furthermore dressed up the archangel Michael as Mercury.” Card upright keywords: From the celestial spheres Mercury containing the name of a god in whose care the individual entrusted draws from his cup of ancient energies flowing towards the soul. Card reversed keywords: The night was filled with pity for that exceptional desire.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

.12

ZEPHYRUS

KNiGHT

BREATH

Zephyrus

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

KNiGHT OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination The underpinning of the Knight of Cups message. The Divine Comedy, Dante’s description of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, was written during the last thirteen years of the poet’s life. The Foligno edition, shown here, possessed by the cup, was printed by Johann Neumeister (Florence, Italy 1470-1495), and is one of the two first editions of the Divine Comedy ever published. Thus the Foligno edition was printed only twenty years after the Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1454), which was the first printed European book. This place in the early history of printing is a mark of the great poem’s importance and influence during the Renaissance. This vellum manuscript leaf preserves much of the revelatory and crucial cantos XXXI and XXXII. The manuscript (message) was printed by one of the printers of the Renaissance, publishing not only classical texts of Dante but also the vernacular works of Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Late in the Purgatory, Beatrice appears, initially rebuking the poet but, Beatrice was the idealized love of Dante’s life. Card upright keywords: Zephyrus, between worlds breathes life into souls. Then fear was poetically quiet in the heart. Card reversed keywords: The night was filled with pity for that exceptional desire.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

.13

SHEBA

QUEEN

PROCESSiON

Key Transition

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

QUEEN OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination At the beginning that the Commedia verbal forms of cantare are used “to sing” sixty-one different times, and nominal forms of “song” or “singer” (including canto, canzone, cantica, and cantor) fifty-three different times. In addition, note (“notes”) occurs fifteen times; “melody” (melodia, melode), seven times; “hymn” (inno), six times; and “psalm” (salmo/i), four times. At the same time of course, the text repeatedly incorporates quotations from various sung sacred texts (from the Bible, the liturgy, the hymnal, the canon, etc., which appear with frequency and regularity (forty times) in the Purgatorio and the Paradiso. The seventh and final terrace of Mt. Purgatory constitutes the beginning of the key transition from the mountain proper to the Garden of Eden with an extremely important emphasis on singing as penitence on this terrace, as Dante-protagonist is initially attracted by the singing of these penitents: Summae Deus clementiae in the breast to the great ardor then I heard singing which makes me feel no less volger. This key Matins hymn, associated with Saturday night, 4 is explicitly tied to the cleansing power of fire over lust (in the third stanza), while singing as such is stressed in the process (stanzas two and four). This is also, of course, the seventh (and last) time that a Beatitude occurs. In terms of song, there are two angels associated here with the Beatitude for the only time on the seven Purgatorial

ante recalling the popular legend that Christ’s Cross was formed from the wood of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and The Queen of Sheba to whom it was miraculously revealed that the Savior of the world would some day hang upon this wood refused to set foot on it and warned Solomon of the revelation she had.

terraces. On every other Terrace there has only been a single angel who speaks the Beatitude. Card upright keywords: Courtly-erotic love. Serves as a guide through the wall of fire. Ascent before the coming of night. Queen of Sheba, named by her grandmother at birth, begins to walk along the river, before she finally pauses, she commands Dante to initiate his experience of the phenomena that will become ultimately the procession. Card reversed keywords: Careful emphasis on the importance of singing, consider the key role of song in another key transition: the opening presentation of Dante’s vision of the holy procession in the Garden of Eden.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

.14

SPiRiT

KiNG

VO iCES

TheAct Of Song

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD a

“LA FOLIE OU L’ALCHEMISTE” : MADNESS OR ALCHEMIST

CUPS

CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY FLORENCE, ITALY & ARTWORK LONDA CREATED FOR BASS LEGEND PETE WAY FACEBOOK GROUP PROJECT

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

KiNG OF CUPS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER

Divination Music And The Act Of Song In Dante’s ‘Purgatorio’ And ‘Paradiso:’ “I seemed to hear... I wrote them down, Spirit or breath becomes voices.” Since Mt. Purgatory is situated on the Earth, it is explicitly linked to earthly time, which is calculated musically. The authority of the temporal monarch flows down into him without any intermediary from the Fountainhead of universal authority; this Fountainhead, though “one of the citadel of its own simplicity of nature” (Sonsol. 4.pr.6.8) flows into many streams from the abundance of its goodness. It is of course a well known critical fact that music plays an important role in Dante’s Commedia starting in Purgatorio 2 and continuing to Parardiso 32. And this key role for music in the Purgatorio and the Paradiso is qualitatively different for each of these two cantiche. In Paradise, on the other hand, narrative time is not meant to be earthly, but celestial, and music thus functions very differently. As of his wanting your angels make sacrifice to you, singing hosanna, so do their men. Osanna indicates the singing associated with the advancing procession. Card upright keywords: Cantando (“singing”). Invocation is overtly generated by song. Justice draws speech from the fount of Wisdome, as does the poet. Paradiso, Canto III: Dante and Beatrice speak to Piccarda and Constance of Sicily. Dante’s Paradiso: Sphere of the Fixed Stars Pt. 3 (Cantos 26-27). Card reversed keywords: His short final journey is a kind of honorary confirmation; but for the later, this exit involves a passage through the wall of fire.

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD TAROCCHI

LIFESTYLE

Kismet, Way Of The Sword SHOP NOW

FASHION

World Of Tarot SHOP NOW

ROCK LEGEND NEWS

FIRENZE ITALY Issues

Published By Alchemist Publishing Firenze, Italy Rock Legend News Founded By Londa R. Marks October 16, 2014

RECENT ISSUES

MOST POPULAR ISSUE 1 Million+ Readers/Viewers

ROCK LEGEND NEWS ROCK STARS ARE TODAY’S MYTHOLOGICAL GODS

FIRENZE, ITALY

SPECIAL EDITION MAY 2020

Digital Zine & Online Presencec Rock Legend News magazine features classics rock era. Chief Editor & CEO: Londa R. Marks Concept, Graphics & Design: Londa R. Marks Content & Contributors: Some entries are from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia which may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. If content is factually incorrect or highly offensive you can edit articles at Wikipedia use of data and may include other wiki’s, stock photos, private archived photos, stock illustrations, social news aggregators, contributor photos, RSS news feeds, print syndications, submitted news tips & information and similar sources. Magazine, graphics, installments, editing & website designed, developed, coded at Londa R. Marks Studio in Firenze, Italy. • Over a Million World Wide Readership/Viewers Since 2016 • Londa R. Marks Founder/Administrator of: Pete Way Facebook Group in 2015 - Join Here

Headquarters & General Contact: Rock Legend News L.R.Marks Studio P.O. Box 555 Ufficio Postale Firenze V.R. 50123 Firenze, Italy Tel: +39 055282070 Email: support@rocklegendnews.com Website: www.rocklegendnews.com Live Chat Support: www.rocklegendnews.com Facebook: facebook.com/rocklegendnews Twitter: twitter.com/rocklegendnews YouTube: youtube.com/rocklegendnews

DONATE B I TCO I N

ROCK LEGEND NEWS

Bitcoin Donation Address:

bc1q3hvmyglrq54xwvtf4t4urznywkmzsgp6eknwmy

SPECIAL EDITION

JOEY RAMONE

Publishing All Rock Legend News magazines are published and distributed by Alchemist Publishing LLC, USA & Italy, through ISSUU, the world’s largest electronic publishing and discovery platform for magazines, catalogs, newspapers, and other publications. Rock Legend News includes Entertainment, Arts & Technology. Full issues from 2016-2020 are FREE to download, read or save for later. These issues are not sold anywhere in the world but available to anyone in the world thanks to advanced technology options. Currently, Rock Legend News magazines PDF format is free; download, print, share, distribute freely. Rock Legend News can be found on ISSUU alongside magazines such as: Classic Rock, Fender, Circus, Guitar World, Music Connection, Drum Media, Rolling Stone, The History of Rock, Heavy, In Rock, Metal Hammer, Billboard, MRF (Frontiers Records, Italy).

Rock

ROCK LEGEND NEWS

ROCK GEAR

k Legend News SHOP NOW

A ROCK AND ROLL DIVINE COMEDY

Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC