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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

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

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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

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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.

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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.”

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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

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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.

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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 Arcana or Minor Arcana cards. Select 6 page numbers to do a 6 Card Layout Reading or select any numbers for custom tarot reading.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Minor Arcana - Suit of Dice

The Major Arcana conveys a higher purpose. The Minor Arcana relates to everyday matters. Part of the "Minor Arcana" dice, like the other tarot suits, contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king. The tarot suit of dice (coins. pentacles) represents hard work, belief in self; trades, crafts, business, material and physical. Steady and dependable, stoic, practical, skilled & skillful; artistic. Dice are about academia; learning or teaching. This is a sensual suit of scenarios; a party atmosphere though and enjoyment of food and luxury and very much home oriented. Dice can be considered down to earth and immovable in decisions, tenacious and stable but attacking goals to win as long as all details are addressed. 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 dice is material, physical & sensual.

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

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DICE

“Bone dice.” “Rollin’ Bones.” The line between divination and gambling is blurred. In the first millennium BC, civilizations in Greece, India, and China all threw dice. In Rome, it was common for gamblers to call out the goddess Fortuna’s name while rolling a 20-sided die during a game of chance. The next time you find yourself rolling a pair of dice, know that you’re tapping into something primordial keeping alive an ancient tradition that began long before recorded history. Archaeologists can’t pinpoint the first human who threw dice, but they do know dice-throwing appeared independently all across the populated world. The oldest known dice dates back at least 8,000 years.

CONTEMPLATiON

ACE

REALiZATiON

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Divination O everlasting Light, you dwell alone In yourself, know yourself alone, and known And knowing, love and smile upon yourself! That middle circle which appeared in you To be conceived as a reflected light, After my eyes had studied it a while, Within itself and in its coloring Seemed to be painted with our human likeness So that my eyes were completely focused on it As the geometry specialist who sets himself To square the circle and who cannot find, For all his thought, the principle he needs, Just so was I on seeing this new vision I wanted to see how our image fuses Into the circle and finds its place in it, And my own wings were far too weak for that. But then my mind was struck by light that flashed And, with this light, received what it had asked. Here force failed my high fantasy; but my desire and will were moved already—like a wheel revolving uniformly. (From Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy Paradiso – Canto XXXIII: The Final Vision)

Card upward keywords: “As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.” —Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, So pick up from deep thought and prepare to see the reflection of your dream turn into a windfall! Card reversed keywords: “Fate’s arrow, when expected, travels slow.” —Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

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.2 POSiTiON

O BALANCE

Perseverance

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Divination In Dante’s paradise, the nine circles of heaven are an allegory for the angelic hierarchy using the planets of our solar system as names including, in order, “the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, and the Primum Mobile.” Canto XX, where it concerns the soothsayers and sorceries and the spellcasters, and the origin of Mantua, which dealt with giving Manto an enchantress; and their pain and misery and their poor condition, in the fourth bedlam and many others. Master poet Dante Alighieri of Florence, Italy loved music. He holds his harp class lyre, to accompany his song and recitation; his poetry. “Fer the city over that death bone; and for the one who first chose the place, Mantüa appealed without further fate. His thicker people were already out, before the deception from Casalodi da Pinamonte was deceived. But I assure you that if you ever hate to originate my land otherwise, the truth will not lie deceit.“ “You see the sad ones who left the needle, the spool and the spindle, and became divinities; made sickness with herbs and with imago. But he came now, for he already holds the boundary of both sides and touches the wave under Sobilia Cain and the thorns; and the round moon was already yesterday: well ten de ‘remember, because it did not harm you once for the deep forest.“ Yes he spoke to me, and we went to meet each other. (Excerpts from Canto XX Inferno) Card upward keywords: Straighten your head, straighten up, and see where the land began to appear in Teban’s eyes. Gather your wealth. Card reversed keywords: So that as pain it remained for the wedges - wishes to cut the first rope. High tragedy sings in some place: you know it well that you know it all.

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.3 TRANSCEND

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O HUMANiTY

FreQuencies

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Divination “Astrology, the noblest of sciences.” —Dante Alighieri “O grace abounding and allowing me to dare to fix my gaze on the Eternal Light, so deep my vision was consumed in it!” Purgatorio XXVII is in many ways Virgil’s canto that purifies a special bond shared by Dante with the mentor who has guided him thus far with reference to his paternal guidance. Later we see that only Virgil - not the new guide Stazio - can induce Dante to cross the flames. When Dante proves intransigent, Virgil knows to refer to Beatrice and he said: “Now you see son, between Beatrice and you is this wall.” (Purgatory XXVII 34-36). Dante dreams, his third purgatorial dream comes, like the previous two, at a moment of transition. The first dream figures his being carried up to the gate of Purgatory by Santa Lucia; the second figures the vices of the top three terraces, embodied in the siren; the third dream figures the two forms of bliss - active and contemplative - that humans can seek in their lives. Card upward keywords: Mastery. Frequencies. Acumen. Lofty vision. Motivated. Turning the page. Card reversed keywords: “Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.” —Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

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.4 SPARKS

O CHANCES

MarvelAt Your Climbing

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Divination In the Late Middle Ages, most poetry was written in Latin, making it accessible only to the most educated readers. In De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular), however, Dante defended the use of the vernacular in literature. He would even write in the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and the Divine Comedy; this highly unorthodox choice set a precedent that important later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and his depictions of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. That when Peneian branches can incite someone to long and thirst for them, delight must fill the happy Delphic deity. Great fire can follow a small spark: there may be better voices after me to pray to Cyrrha’s god for aid--that he may answer. The lantern of the world approaches mortals by varied paths: but on that way which links four circles with three crosses, it emerges. Every nature has its bent, according to a different station, nearer or less near to its origin. Card upward keywords: Feel more marvel at your climbing than you would were you considering a stream that from a mountain’s height falls to its base. Card reversed keywords: A living flame stood still.

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IV Of Dice A LIVING FLAME STOOD STILL

While rolling dice are considered a game of chance, Pete Way saw it as symbolic to: “Winners don’t wait for chances, they take them.” “And while Schenker is the heart of the band and Mogg the foundation, bassist Pete Way is the soul.” —Dave Wood

Francisco Xavier says about Pete: “He lives in music ‘n energy we will meet.”

Much like the poet Pete Way, Dante Aligheri was the soul of language and passionate expression through words. This is an excerpt from Dante’s Divine Comedy, Paradiso Canto 1 which is included in the accompanying booklets of, “Kismet, Way Of The Sword,” deck kit:

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That when Peneian branches can incite someone to long and thirst for them, delight must fill the happy Delphic deity. Great fire can follow a small spark: there may be better voices after me to pray to Cyrrha’s god for aid that he may answer. The lantern of the world approaches mortals by varied paths; but on that Way which links four circles with three crosses, it emerges. Every nature has its bent, according to a different station, nearer or less near to its origin.” Card upward keywords: Feel more marvel at your climbing than you would were you considering a stream that from a mountain’s height falls to its base. Card reversed keywords: A living flame stood still.

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.5 WEARY

O HOPE

Holy Warriors

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Divination “Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind’s root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams—the nectar of which poets sing.” —Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy In the third and the last section of Dante’s epic poem of Divine Comedy, the Italian poet describes his journey through Heaven, the things he sees and people he encounters on the way to the so-called Empyrean, the true home of God, saints, angels and the souls of the faithful. In the sky that takes most of its light it was I, and I saw things that say neither knows nor can those who descend from there; I was within the heaven that receives more of His light; and I saw things that he who from that height descends, forgets or can. Dante and Virgil leaning on Homer author of the Iliad and the Odyssey hoping for some insight. Card upward keywords: Holy warriors. Revel in the work of that great Artist who so loves His art, His gaze is fixed on it perpetually. Card reversed keywords: Reasons for the dark marks on the Moon. Exile.

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.6 SONG

O DES iRE

A Matter of My Song

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Divination Dante’s singing in Hell is exceptional, but for the rest of the poem, his singing is normal. The exceptional citation of the parody of a metrical Latin hymn Vexilla regis in Hell foreshadows the singing of the metrical hymn Te lucis ante terminum in Purgatory. Here Te lucis is described as being sung facing East, the traditional direction of facing God, and thus it projects a sense of moving to the goal. This hymn in turn becomes a type for the hymn Summe Deus clementiae, sung at the beginning of the seventh terrace. There the souls face a purgation of fire, and sing the hymn together. Since God is outside of time, and music inside time, music is not an attribute of God. It is inconceivable that God should have sung in the Commedia. To be sure, God is seen as creator of motion, and thus of music, but he is himself unmoved and beyond music. So as Dante approaches the vision of God, there is no more talk of music. Card upward keywords: By approaching his desire, our intellect deepens so much that behind memory it cannot not speak; for nearing its desired end, our intellect sinks into an abyss so deep that memory fails to follow it. Card reversed keywords: Truly as much of the holy kingdom as I could treasure my mind, it will now be a matter of my song.

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PERSiSTANCE

Vii

O BELiEF

Goalkeeper

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Divination Canto IX, Antipurgatory: the goalkeeper angel Il canto XIV del paradiso. Canto XIV, in which Salamone solves anything doubted; and mount in the star of Mars. The fifth part starts here. From the center to the circle, and yes from the circle to the center, the water moved in a round vase, according to whether it was struck out or inside: in my mind this case I immediately said, yes how the glorious life was silent of Tommaso, for the similarity that arose of his speaking and that of Beatrice, which he liked to begin after. To him he makes trades, and he does not say to you, neither with his voice nor thinking again, or another truth, go to the root. Tell them if the light from which your substance grows, will remain with you eternally as it is now; and if it remains, say how, then: whereby the vision grows together, the ardor that lights up grows, the ray that comes from it grows. Card upward keywords: O good Appollo, at the last work make me of your valor has become a vessel, as you ask to give the beloved laurel. Card reversed keywords: O godly force, if you so lend yourself to me, that I might show the shadow of the blessed realm inscribed within my mind.

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PRODUCTiVE

Viii

O RiSKS

Heavy Weights Of Labor

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Divination Building the Tower of Babel was, for Dante, an example of pride. After being introduced to humility, Dante and Virgil meet the souls of the proud, who are bent over by the weight of huge stones on their backs. As they walk around the terrace, they are able to profit from the sculpted examples of humility. The first of these souls is Omberto Aldobrandeschi, whose pride lies in his descent (“I was Italian, son of a great Tuscan, my father was Guiglielmo Aldobrandesco”), although he is learning to be more humble (“I do not know if you have heard his name”). Oderisi of Gubbio is an example of pride in achievements – he was a noted artist of illuminated manuscripts. Provenzano Salvani, leader of the Sienese Ghibellines, is an example of pride in dominating others (Canto XI). In Canto XIII, Dante points out, with “frank self-awareness,” that pride is also a serious flaw of his own:

“I fear much more the punishment below; my soul is anxious, in suspense; already I feel the heavy weights of the first terrace”

After his conversations with the proud, Dante notes further sculptures on the pavement below, this time illustrating pride itself. The sculptures show Satan (Lucifer), the building of the Tower of Babel, King Saul, Niobe, Arachne, King Rehoboam, and others.

The poets reach the stairway to the second terrace at noon. As they ascend, the Angel of Humility salutes them and brushes Dante’s forehead with his wings, erasing the letter “P” (peccatum) corresponding to the sin of pride, and Dante hears the beatitude Beati pauperes spiritu (“Blessed are the poor in spirit”, Matthew 5:3) (Canto XII). Dante is surprised to discover that climbing now seems easier than it did before. Virgil tells him that one of the initials has been removed from his forehead by the angel and that the effort will be increasingly lessened as he climbs higher. Dante compares the stairway to the easy ascent from the Rubiconte, a bridge in Florence, up to San Miniato al Monte, overlooking the city.

Card upward keywords: Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.

Card reversed keywords: The highest love we are to have is love for God.

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.9 GA iNS

O GOALS

Ascending

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Divination And so, in Cantos XXXI-XXXIII, Dante is shown by Bernard the throne room of God in the Primum Mobile, that point from which the spheres of the universe hanging and which moves them — or, rather, out of love for which all things move. And then Bernard turns his gaze upward, to that vision of God reserved for the blessed: And so my mind, bedazzled and amazed, Stood fixed in wonder, motionless, intent, And still my wonder kindled as I gazed. That light doth so transform a man’s whole bent That never to another sight or thought Would he surrender, with his own consent; For everything the will has ever sought Is gathered there, and there is every quest made perfect, which apart from it falls short. The first mirrored the next, as though it were rainbow from rainbow, and the third seemed flame Breathed equally from each of the first pair. How weak are words, and how unfit to frame my concept — which lags after what was shown so far, ‘twould flatter it to call it lame! Eternal light, that in Thyself alone Dwelling, alone dost know Thyself, and smile On Thy self-love, so knowing and so known! (Canto XXXIII, ll. 97-105, 115-126) Card upward keywords: And as a second ray it is customary to go out of the first and go up again, even as a pelegrin who wants to return. Card reversed keywords: Dreams are always markers of transition.

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.10 ABUNDANCE

O CONTENTMENT

Harmonies

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Divination The Paradiso is suffused with a transcendent background of harmonious sonorities. These are not merely humanly audible harmonies (musica instrumentalis); rather, increasingly a direct apprehension by the soul (musica humana) of the harmonious order of the cosmos (musica mundana), and this perception increases only as the soul’s capability of grasping it increases; this is suggested when Dante asks, “Why in this wheel the sweet symphony of Paradise is silent, which below through the others so devoutly sounds,” and the answer comes, “You have the hearing as the sight of mortals.” You are not yet capable of hearing it. “Ladies that have intelligence of Love, I of my lady wish with you to speak; Not that I can believe to end her praise, But to discourse that I may ease my mind. I say that when I think upon her worth, So sweet doth Love make himself feel to me, That if I then should lose not hardihood, Speaking, I should enamour all mankind.” Sixth Terrace (Canto XXV) Card upward keywords: Bliss. Card reversed keywords: Renaissance audience and crew stage checks. Procuring security.

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DUB iOUS

PAGE

APPRENT iCE

The JourneyIs My Song

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Divination The source of all motion and light, who will be the final goal of his journey through the heavens, saying that this journey will be the “subject of my song;” the music of Dante’s “song” as it leads to his ultimate vision of God. In Dante’s time, singing is a natural concomitant of poetry: Lyric poetry of Dante’s predecessors, such as Arnaut Daniel, is transmitted with music, and in several places Dante refers to his own activity as song. In such a poem as this on a sacred subject, the liturgy is an apt point of comparison, since the norm at that time was that everything spoken aloud in the liturgy was sung. Music is a prominent feature of the Paradiso; but Dante treats it in all three cantiche—very differently for each one. At the end of the Purgatorio, the procession with the gryphon is accompanied by transcendent music: “I did not understand, nor is it sung back here, the hymn those people sang then, nor did I endure all its melody.” The traditional notion of the music of the spheres of the philosophers might suggest a monotonous grind of a constant chord, but here the sounding music in the heavens of the planets is produced by the souls who inhabit the turning wheels, singing and dancing. Dance is prominent: “those carols differently dancing, allowed me to judge their richness, being fast and slow.” A carol is a round dance, perfectly suited to the “wheels” being depicted. Await no further word or sign from me: your will is free, erect, and whole—to act against that will would be to err: therefore I crown and miter you over yourself.” (Purgatorio XXVII 139-42) Card reversed keywords: Hell is a region characterized by noise: its proper sound is “shrieks, moans, and lamentation.” Virgilio announces that Dante is now free. He has finished purgation and his will is now free, straight, and whole. Card reversed keywords: And while I sang these notes to him, he accused Constantine of avarice.

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SACRED GEOMETRY

KNiGHT

MESSENGER

Amplyfy

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Divination “As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.” —Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Sacred geometry amplifies our connection to spirit while creating harmony within ourselves, and between ourselves and the outside world. It is often called “sacred architecture” because it underlies everything and is woven into the fabric of all creation. Art and music applies this principle. “We sullen were in the sweet air, which by the sun is gladdened, bearing within ourselves the sluggish reek; now we are sullen in this sable mire.” (Inferno, Canto VII) The banners of the king advance forward, the mystery of the cross does gleam, where the creator of flesh, in the flesh, by the cross-bar is hung.) Virgil recites it in the beginning of the final Canto of the Inferno, Canto XXXIX, where he leads Dante through the lowest and final Ninth Circle of Hell. However, Virgil quotes a parodied version of the hymn – he instead saying, “The banners of the king of Hell advance forward.” Card upward keywords: We astute sullen, over and over they repeat their “song.” Card reversed keywords: The Sullen cannot sound their songs because they are “submerged” deep beneath the Styx.

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CREATiVE

QUEEN

COMFORTiNG

Liturgy Of Hours

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Divination

.. in my dream, I seemed to see a woman both young and fair; along a plain she gathered flowers, and even as she sang, she said: Whoever asks my name, know that I’m Leah, and I apply my lovely hands to fashion a garland of the flowers I have gathered. To find delight within this mirror I adorn myself; never deserts her mirror; there she sits all day; she longs to see her fair eyes gazing, as I, to see my hands adorning, long: she is content with seeing, I with labor. Seventh Terrace, has an immense wall of flame through which everyone must pass. As a prayer, they sing the hymn Summae Deus Clementiae (God of Supreme Clemency) from the Liturgy of the Hours, marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer. Card upward keywords: Spirits of people who dedicated their lives to prayer, climbing up and down a golden ladder. Card reversed keywords: Faith, love and hope.

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MASTER

KiNG

BUiLDER

The Boss

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Divination

That light supreme, with its fathomless Clear substance, showed to me three spheres, which bare Three hues distinct, and occupied one space; The first mirrored the next, as though it were Rainbow from rainbow, and the third seemed flame Breathed equally from each of the first pair. How weak are words, and how unfit to frame My concept — which lags after what was shown So far, ‘twould flatter it to call it lame! Eternal light, that in Thyself alone Dwelling, alone dost know Thyself, and smile On Thy self-love, so knowing and so known! (Canto XXXIII, ll. 97-105, 115-126) Card upward keywords: The Boss, Boss of Bone dice. “The devil is not as black as he is painted.”— Dante Alighieri Card reversed keywords: “The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.” — Dante Alighieri

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