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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 Staves

The Major Arcana conveys a higher purpose. The Minor Arcana relates to everyday matters. Part of the "Minor Arcana" Staves, like the other tarot suits, contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king. The tarot suit of staves represents action, details, energy, strong ego, confidence and commerce. Considered aggressive at times, when they set a goal it is achieved. Staves are about power; control, and achievement - usually at all costs. Even if they know they are wrong they will die trying to explain why they are right. Fire signs are competitive and professional, collected and in control of most situations they are involved in. These 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. They are often accomplished entertainers or in sports. Element of staves is drive, ambition and active by nature.

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

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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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STAVES Staves/Wands in Tarot cards are related to astrological signs of Fire: Leo, Sagittarius and Aries. Wands people are spiritual and charismatic. In music, Staves are a set of five parallel lines on any one or between any adjacent two of which a note is written to indicate its pitch. The are a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.

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Divination Dante’s Treatment of Music in the Divine Comedy is Music as Mirror. Dante utilizes musical imagery as an essential component of his allegory. Influenced by both Christian thinkers and philosophers, Dante viewed scholastic music as an adjunct of religion. In the Divine Comedy, Dante presents auditory allusions as an inextricable factor of the protagonist’s epic pilgrimage through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Through a progression of anti-music in Inferno to human context in Purgatory to the music of the spheres in Paradise, the musical langauge of Dante’s Divine Comedy conveys humanity’s innate connection with God, with the universe. Dante is deep in thought with his Divine Comedy poem in the music section wearing his laurel wreath and holding a Stave with laurel growing from it. As if these leaves hold a magical property that connects him to the energies of the universe, time and thought, all the while propelling him through his work journey. In some countries the laurel wreath is used as a symbol of the master’s degree. The wreath is given to young masters at the university graduation ceremony. The word “laureate” in ‘poet laureate’ refers to the laurel wreath. The medieval Florentine poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, a member of the Sicilian School, is often represented in paintings and sculpture wearing a laurel wreath. In Italy, the term laureato is used in to refer to any student who has graduated. Right after the graduation ceremony, or laurea in Italian, the student receives a laurel wreath to wear for the rest of the day. Card upright keywords: Scholarly. Important achievements. Erudite. Card reversed keywords: Learning. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say. What was this forest savage, rough, and stern?

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CONViCTiON

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Hallway of Windows

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Divination The Divine Comedy with illustrations by Sandro Botticelli originates from between 1480 and 1490 in Florence and was commissioned by the Italian Renaissance Prince Lorenzo de Medici, Lorenzo il Magnifico’s son. This significant work of world literature was and continually is received in the visual arts. The breathtaking illustrations of this edition are counted among the most famous works by Botticelli. Here, in Lorenzo il Magnifico’s hands he holds one of the works, The Eighth Sphere (heaven of the fixed stars): St. John questions Dante on the third theological virtue—love. Dante regains his sight, stronger than before; The light of Adam appears. Illustration Creator: Sandro Botticelli, Date: c.1480-c.1495. Botticelli’s interest in Dante went much further than even Vasari knew. Sometime late in his career, after he had already achieved local renown in Florence, Botticelli promised his patron Lorenzo an illustrated Divine Comedy on sheepskin with a separate image for each Canto, something no artist had yet attempted; 92 of those illustrations survive, this is one of them. When the humanist Cristoforo Landino (1425–98) lectured on the poems of ancients and moderns (Horace, Virgil, Juvenal, Persius, Dante, and Petrarch), he often remarked on the “variety” of their style and teaching. The reader, he stated, can at times only be “stunned” (attonitus) by the direction a poem takes. As if following a poetic model, Landino had “variety” mark both his writing and his public career. He moved freely from Latin to Italian, from poets to orators, and from philosophical precepts to the art of writing letters. While seemingly preoccupied with composing dialogues in moral philosophy. The Platonic Academy of Florence was another invented tradition. Thus already by the time of the first Medici restoration Lorenzo had come to read Plato’s Symposium (as translated by Aringhetti) and discussed Dante. Dante, Botticelli and the Medici philosopher and humanist scholar of Plato proposed a new approach to understanding classical authors. This approach involved Platonic philosophy but also included absorption of other doctrines. The Florentine Platonic Academy’s Neo-Platonism synthesized the works and teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras and other Greek philosophers and applied this to their approach at interpreting the writings of Dante. Card upward keywords: Philosophy. Motivation. Incubation of Ideas. Card reversed keywords: Reflection. Preparation.

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Divination The energies from the image of entertainer Pete Way is present in the windows in front of Dante Alighieri. Dante lived 1265 – 1321. Pete Way was born August 7, 1951. This image is from late 90’s. Though Dante is focused on 3 staves and the number 3, Pete’s image energies are so strong they are coming through time 670 years from the future as if Dante’s thoughts were generating an energy wave capable of being heard by someone like Pete for the music aspects of his poetry. Dante holds his book, his Divine Comedy while contemplating the 3 staves and the importance of the number 3 as it was part of his complex sequencing and numerology in this preeminent work of Italian literature. Fascinated with the number 3, the numbers 7 and 9 are also throughout the poem. He used the number 3 in his poem many times such as: 3 beasts (lion, leopard, she wolf), the 3 realms of the dead, during Easter 1300, Dante was 35 years old in 1300. With similarities to tarot and Dante’s complex system of using numerology allowed for specific sections such as 33 cantos in each book, 34 cantos is in the Inferno, the devil has 3 faces (red, black and yellow), 3 ladies who pray for him (St. Lucia, Virgin Mary and Rachel), the trinity of 3 (God appears as 3 equally large circles: father, son and holy spirit), the last world in each of the 3 parts of the Divine Comedy is “stars” and also the 3 rhymes mean every imperfection can become perfection. Other numbers are actually connected with the number 3: 9 circles of Hell, the 7th circle is divided into 3 rings, the 8th circle is divided into 10 bolgie, the 9th circle is divided into 4 zones, 4 intended levels of meaning (narrative, allegorical, moral and anagogical), in Purgatory an angel uses his sword to draw the letter “P” 7 times on Dante’s forehead, the angel uses 2 keys to open the gates, Dante goes through 7 terraces of purgatory, 7 deadly sins and 9 spheres of heaven. The Divine Comedy is composed of 3 canticas: Inferno (Hell), Purgutorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Heaven) (33 cantos). He wanted the reader to see this as parts of the universe arranged in concentric circles using this structure. Card upward keywords: Number 3 factors into project decisions. Foresight per future. Card reversed keywords: Possibilities.

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Structured Realms

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Divination Dante and Beatrice and the Vault of Stars. The structure of the three realms follows a common numerical pattern of 9 plus 1, for a total of 10: 9 circles of the Inferno, followed by Lucifer contained at its bottom; 9 rings of Mount Purgatory, followed by the Garden of Eden crowning its summit; and the 9 celestial bodies of Paradiso, followed by the Empyrean containing the very essence of God. Within each group of 9, 7 elements correspond to a specific moral scheme, subdivided into three subcategories, while 2 others of greater particularity are added to total nine. After an initial ascension, Beatrice guides Dante through the nine celestial spheres of Heaven. These are concentric and spherical, as in Aristotelian and Ptolemaic cosmology. While the structures of the Inferno and Purgatorio were based on different classifications of sin, the structure of the Paradiso is based on the four cardinal virtues and the three theological virtues. The seven lowest spheres of Heaven deal solely with the cardinal virtues of Prudence, Fortitude, Justice and Temperance. The first three spheres involve a deficiency of one of the cardinal virtues – the Moon, containing the inconstant, whose vows to God waned as the moon and thus lack fortitude; Mercury, containing the ambitious, who were virtuous for glory and thus lacked justice; and Venus, containing the lovers, whose love was directed towards another than God and thus lacked Temperance. The final four incidentally are positive examples of the cardinal virtues, all led on by the Sun, containing the prudent, whose wisdom lighted the way for the other virtues, to which the others are bound (constituting a category on its own). Card upward keywords: Four cardinal virtues were recognized by Plato and in the Bible, classical antiquity and in traditional Christian theology: Prudence, Courage, Temperance, Justice. Card reversed keywords: Different stars visible. The altered position of the sun.

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N DEFENSE

Assailed By Beasts

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Divination Often, but not always, an encounter such as Dante’s is met with the Astrological activation of the chart angles such as the Ascendant (first house), and Mid Heaven (10th house) along with their corresponding angles and houses (Descendant or seventh house, and the Imum Coli, or fourth house). The matching angles of the Ascendant and the Mid Heaven are never far behind because the back needs a front and up needs down. When one is affected the other one is as well. Pluto, in measurement to the Sun, Moon or any number of midpoints are equally influenced by Pluto leading us into the descent of the underworld (Pluto or Hades is the ruler of the underworld). It is on the night before Easter Sunday, and Dante is thirty five years old when the poem begins (enough time for Pluto to make a major aspect to an angle or planet), and Dante finds himself lost in “sin” (Pluto, Scorpio). Dante is assailed by beasts (a lion, Leo/Sun, ego, and a she-wolf, Mars, Aries), and he finds it impossible to evade them no matter what he tries all the while searching for the “right way” (discipline, Saturn). It is then that Virgil (the psyche, represented by Mercury) begins to lead Dante down into the underworld where each of his sins are “punished” (Saturn, Capricorn) in the inferno (Pluto, Scorpio) which represented the soul (Sun, Leo). “If you, free as you are of every weight had stayed below, then that would be as strange as living flame on earth remaining still. And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.” —Dante Alighieri Card upward keywords: “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.” —Dante Alighieri Card reversed keywords: “Behave like men, and not like witless sheep.” —Dante Alighieri

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Old & New Universe

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Divination The sixth window behind erudite Cosimo I de’ Medici, a portal through the old universe. By the time Cosimo came to power in 1537, Dante’s Divine Comedy had suffered a considerable drop in popularity because of the rise of Renaissance humanism, a movement that considered Dante’s use of the vernacular as somewhat crude. While the late fifteenth century had produced a number of commentaries on the Comedy that included maps even of Dante’s three realms - hell, purgatory, and paradise, such efforts were attributable more to the burgeoning field of cartography than to a genuine interest in the content of Dante’s great poem. A number of cultural and political issues inherent in Cosimo’s rise to power, however, caused Dante and his writing to enjoy a Renaissance of their own in the sixteenth century and, to be recast as the vanguard of Cosimo’s cultural project. If we can hold both New Universe and Old Universe together in our minds, we will be able to have some sense of the “unmoved mover,” of the point “that is enclosed by that which it encloses.” Card upward keywords: New Universe. Within the heaven of the godly peace revolves a body in whose power lies the being of all things that it enfolds. ( Par. 2.112-14) Card reversed keywords: Old Universe. From the heaven of divine peace you turn a body whose virtue the being of all his contentment lies. ( Par. 2.112-14)

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.7 SUCCESSFUL

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N ENCOUNTERS

Successive Wins

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Divination By forcing us to complement the circumference model of the universe with a centrist one, Dante is trying to make us come to grips with the paradox of a point that is “enclosed by that which It encloses”: "enclosed by that which It encloses": "inchiuso da quel ch'elli ' ncloses "( Par . 30.12). This point is both center and circumference, both the deep (Augustinian) within and the great (Aristotelian) without. It is the Enclosed that Encloses / the Enclosing that is Enclosed. Angels never turn their gazes from the face of God and see all things in His eternal present, their sight is uninterrupted by new things, and they have no need of memory (which we use to store the new things once they are no longer new). Forward progress is articulated by our successive encounters with the new. My eyes, which had been satisfied in seeking new sights—a thing for which they long did not delay in turning toward him. Card upward keywords: My lady, who saw my perplexity—I was in such suspense — said: “On that Point depend the heavens and the whole of nature." Overcoming challenging decisions. Card reversed keywords: The size of spheres of matter, large or small, depends upon the power more and less, that spreads throughout their parts.

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FORCEFUL

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N SPHERES

Urgencyins

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Divination Pushing forward. The further into Limbo they travel, the less bleak it seems. Dante describes a brightly-lit castle surrounded by seven high walls and a beautiful moat. Within the walls is an ‘’emerald green’’ meadow of fresh grass. The Fifth Sphere of Heaven or Mars is home to holy warriors, whose souls are forming the shape of a cross. Paradiso XXVIII is a metaphysical canto, in which Dante considers the universe from a new perspective. Rather than the earth as a point at the center circled by ever larger heavens, he now imagines the universe inverted, with God as a luminous point at the center: I saw a point that sent forth so acute a light, that anyone who faced the force with which it blazed would have to shut his eyes. Card upward keywords: The ring with clearest flame was that which lay least far from the pure spark because it shares most deeply that point’s truth. Card reversed keywords: The eighth and ninth were wider still; and each, even as greater distance lay between it and the first ring, moved with lesser speed

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N DES iRE

Weary

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Divination “This wretched state of being is the fate of those sad souls who lived a life but lived it with no blame and with no praise. “My son,” the gentle master said to me, “all those who perish in the wrath of God assemble here from all parts of the earth; they want to cross the river, they are eager; it is Divine Justice that spurs them on, turning the fear they have into desire. A good soul never comes to make this crossing, so, if Charon grumbles at the sight of you, you see now what his words are really saying.” He finished speaking, and the grim terrain shook violently; and the fright it gave me even now in recollection makes me sweat. Out of the tear—drenched land a wind arose which blasted forth into a reddish light, knocking my senses out of me completely, and I fell as one falls tired into sleep. Card upward keywords: They want to cross the river…desire Card reversed keywords: Weeping bitterly.

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Divination Halfway through his life, Dante The Pilgrim wakes to find himself lost in a dark wood. Terrified at being alone in so dismal a valley, he wanders until he comes to a hill bathed in sunlight, and his fear begins to leave him. But when he starts to climb the hill, his path is blocked by three fierce beasts: first a LEOPARD, then a LION, and finally a SHE-WOLF. They fill him with fear and drive him back down to the sunless wood. At that moment the figure of a man appears before him; it is the shade of VIRGIL, and the Pilgrim begs for help. Virgil tells him that he cannot overcome the beasts which obstruct his path; they must remain until a “GREYHOUND” comes who will drive them back to Hell. Rather by another path will the Pilgrim reach the sunlight, and Virgil promises to guide him on that path through Hell and Purgatory, after which another spirit, more fit than Virgil, will lead him to Paradise. The Pilgrim begs Virgil to lead on, and the Guide starts ahead. The Pilgrim follows. A bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good. (Canto 1: The Dark Forest) Another way, by other ports…carry you. Charon, whose boat bears only the souls of the damned, recognizes the Pilgrim as a living man and refuses him passage. Card upward keywords: As a man who, rejoicing in his gains, suddenly seeing his gain turn into loss, will grieve as he compares his then and now Card reversed keywords: And, everywhere I looked, the beast was there blocking my way, so time and time again I was about to turn and go back down.

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MEMOR iES

The Chosen One

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Divination

Look into my heart, and thy living thou 'it find; or call, and thy dead will awake in my mind enough that we two are here. Within the Heaven which most receives His Light I was; and saw what he who thence descends neither knows how, nor hath the power, to tell; for as it draweth near to its Desire, our intellect so deeply sinks therein, that recollection cannot follow it. As much, however, of the holy Realm as in my memory I could treasure up, shall now become the subject of my song. Card upward keywords: Make me a worthy a vessel of Thy Power. Card reversed keywords: O' Power Divine, if Thou but lend Thyself to me so much, that I may show the blessèd Kingdom’s shadow.

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WONDER

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MOT iONLESS iNTENT

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Divination THE CHURCH OF DANTE AND BEATRICE - at least, in Dante’s mind it is. Dante hears music trailing behind him, pauses with his work and basks in thoughts of how Beatrice has become the catalyst for his life’s work, his purpose, his life. “Asleep in my dreamland,” God said with a smile Which lighted my soul’s new sky, “The real world is only where thou and I are;” 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. Card upward keywords: “Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain...” —Dante Alighieri, Paradiso Card reversed keywords: “Thy loved ones are dreams in my dreamland.” —Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

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QUEEN

ViSUALS

Dante & Beatrice

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Divination Dante and Beatrice and the Vault of Stars. Beatrice, in one of his illustrations for the Divine Comedy it is shown that Botticelli knew. He knew that Alighieri had hidden three Ptolemaic drawings inside the Poem, and he also knew that, changing the point of view, that cosmic model related to the planet-earth would have given a very long farewell. Dante Alighieri saw Beatrice frequently after the age of 18, often exchanging greetings in the street, but never knew her well. In this scene, the musician is hidden in shadows of the bushes playing for the gathering, celebrating the Queen of Staves. Card upward keywords: “These are the radiances of the perfected vision that sees the good and step by step moves nearer to what it sees.” —Dante Alighieri, The Paradiso Card reversed keywords: Different stars visible. The altered position of the sun.

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KiNG

iMAGE

Activatiing Energies

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Divination Through time and space. “...Because the sacred fire that lights all nature liveliest of all in its own image glows. All these prerogatives the human creature possesses, and if one of them should fail, he must diminish from his noble stature.” Man from his finite assets never could make satisfaction; ne’er could he abase him so low, obey thereafter all he would, as he’d by disobedience sought to raise him; and for this cause man might not pay his due himself, nor from the debtor’s roll erase him. By his own ways, renew man’s proper life, and reinstate him so; his ways I say - by one, or both of two. And since the doer’s actions ever show more gracious as the style of them makes plain the goodness of the heart from which they flow, that most high Goodness which is God was fain - even God, whose impressive Heaven and earth display - by all His ways to lift you up again; nor, between final night and primal day, was e’er proceeding so majestically and high, nor shall not be, by either way; for God’s self-giving, which made possible that man should raise himself, showed more largess than if by naked power He’d canceled all; and every other means would have been less than justice, if it had not pleased God’s Son to be humiliated in fleshliness.” —Dante Alighieri, Paradiso Card upward keywords: In its own image glows. Reinstated him so. Impressive Heaven and earthly display. Card reversed keywords: Humiliated in fleshliness.

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