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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 Swords The Major Arcana conveys a higher purpose. The Minor Arcana relates to everyday matters. Part of the "Minor Arcana" Swords, like the other tarot suits, contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king. The tarot suit of swords represent logic; mind and thoughts. The tarot suit of swords' very nature is that of being aggressive and warlike. Swords people are great thinkers. Study, law courts and libraries, any type of research, academia, the sciences, are magnets to air signs. Learning for them in any capacity is highly appealing. 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 swords is that decisions are made based on facts.

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

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

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XIII X IV XV XVI XVII XVIII

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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.

SWORDS According to Dante's house museum, it was used by a soldier during the Battle of Campaldino—perhaps, even, by Dante himself (hence it being labeled “Dante’s Dagger”). It was chosen for the Suit of Swords to include even more of Florence, Italy’s spirit of poet Dante Alighieri in Kismet, Way Of The Sword.

.1 TRUTH

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Divination Finding a way through dream echoes and mirroring memories. In ancient Pompeii, Italy, little white stones set into the street paving catch the moonlight to help citizens get home in the dark. Piazza Dante is a large public square in Naples, Italy, named after the poet Dante Alighieri where tourists to Pompeii arrive before visiting the Archaeological Site. The square is dominated by a 19th-century statue of the poet Dante, sculpted by Tito Angelini. Dante’s Dagger is stationed at a Y shaped street in Pompeii; the entry gate to the stadium where Pink Floyd has executed great conceptual works and attempts to artistically merge artful images, spirit and music celebrating the historical period in which the last thing missing from their art is precisely those who lived there then - though still find a way to arrive again among frequencies of the performers magick: their music. In a vision, a dream of herself in Pompeii during 78 BC, Londa rode a horse into a stadium event as if she were Diana The Huntress; determined, strong and intent upon delivering an urgent message. She rode into the very stadium that Pink Floyd has played; those musicians who also had a past life there and return to embrace the memories they mirror and gather their ancient powers. Pompeii, like Florence, Italy has a way of claiming their own - or vice versa. Though it is a gift, it comes with heavy responsibility and the artists are frequently reminded of it. Among other lives in Italy, past and present, and after living in Florence for a couple of years in this lifetime artist Londa R. Marks had a dream revealing where she lived in Pompeii. The altered state of consciousness turned into a trance; a reflection soaked in shadows of an ancient stone residence produced a figure who emerged and embraced her whispering, “It is not our time. You have work to do.” Card upright keywords: Merging time zones and parallel worlds. Shadows. Connecting the dots. Supernatural disclosure by Way Of The Sword. Purposeful messages. Altered state of consciousness. The sword of truth. Card reversed keywords: Stealth code.

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Worshiping Venus

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Divination Desperately worshiping Venus, Dante and Virgil pray for guidance. In parallel worlds a curious but indifferent artist channels a vision out of time to watch Purgatorio adventures unfold while remembering that she is only the artist as medium receptive to the messages she must articulate, “Tai nella facccia io non lo soffersi” (I do not suffer it) from Purgatorio IX. Canto IX, in which the actor places one of his significant dreams; and then how they came to the entrance of their own purgatory, describing how in the entrance of purgatory, “I found an angel who with the point of the sword he carried in his hand and wrote in the forehead of Dante: seven P,” perhaps in memory of his first troubles. Behind the artist in Purgatorio an entertainer from another realm of time contemplates his oracle cards laid out on the ground in front of him. Emphatically, he predicts the artist will weave together Italian history and mythology with the Divine Comedy of music, art and theatre. in Canto XX, fortune-tellers and soothsayers must walk with their heads on backwards, unable to see what is ahead, because that was what they had tried to do in life: Canto XX, Divine Comedy 1308 - 1320 They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ... and since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path. (Correlation on following page)

White light flashes and a phantom rainbow swirls among intoxicating white tea musk, rose and jasmine scents confirming the scene as an omen of agreement. Ironically, the path of creator also becomes a labyrinth in Purgatorio. Card upright keywords: Aligning with Purgatorio and Paradiso. Strategically creating an exit from Purgatorio. Card reversed keywords: Stuck in a labyrinth of Purgatory.

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String Theory

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Divination The Three Fates, or Moirai, are a group of three weaving goddesses who assign individual destinies to mortals at birth. Their names are Clotho (the Spinner), Lachesis (the Alloter) and Atropos (the Inflexible). In the older myths, they were the daughters of Nyx, but later, they are more often portrayed as the offspring of Zeus and Themis. In Orphic cosmogony, their mother is said to have been Ananke or Necessity. Either way, they had enormous power and even Zeus was unable to recall their decisions. They controlled the mother thread of life of every mortal from birth to death. They were independent, at the helm of necessity, directed fate, and watched that the fate assigned to every being by eternal laws might take its course without obstruction. In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. It describes how these strings propagate through space and interact with each other. The entertainer forges through his destiny with unequivocal force and wild embrace as he makes a part of his aura a 12th century Tetragrammaton Triangular Shield of three circles that are related to the Borromean rings used as a symbol of the Trinity. The 1260 allegorical illustration was a symbol of a knight battling the seven deadly sins. In Dante Alighieri’s Inferno he encounters various sins in the following order (canto number): Lust (5), Gluttony (6), Avarice (7), Wrath (7-8), Heresy (10), Violence (12-17), Blasphemy (14), Fraud (18-30), and Treachery (32-34). The Purgatorio, closely follows the traditional seven deadly sins. Since Pride is the root of all sins, the souls in Purgatory must be purged of that sin first. As they ascend the mount, they experience less punishments to absolve the other six deadly sins. As they are freed of sinful inclinations, the souls can regain the earthly paradise renounced by Adam and Eve. Card upright keywords: Incarnations of destiny. Thread one’s way, as through a passage or between obstacles. Card reversed keywords: Feeling lost in this world.

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Divination

the river of forgetfulness, is one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld; the other four are

Purgatory, also known as Purgatorio in Italian,

Acheron (the river of sorrow), Cocytus (the riv-

was the second Kingdom of the Afterlife and

er of lamentation), Phlegethon (the river of fire)

was a major realm in Dante’s Inferno. Even if

and Styx (the river that separates Earth and the

someone was baptized, it does not mean they

Underworld). According to Statius, it bordered

automatically went to heaven, according to

Elysium, the final resting place of the virtuous.

Dante Alighieri’s theology. They would first

Ovid wrote that the river flowed through the

spend time in purgatory until enough prayers

cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, where its mur-

and enough masses were said for the souls of

muring would induce drowsiness.

those in limbo. The purification that the soul went through would make sense for Dante to

The shades of the dead were required to drink

have to experience Hell first to finally reach

the waters of the Lethe in order to forget their

heaven.

earthly life. In the Aeneid, Virgil (VI.703-751) writes that it is only when the dead have had

“Purgatory is the place in which the human

their memories erased by the Lethe that they

spirit purges himself, and climbing to Heaven

may be reincarnated. Some ancient Greeks

makes himself worthy. I did not die and I did

believed that souls were made to drink from the

not live. These souls waited for their chance to

river before being reincarnated, so they would

begin their ascent to Purgatory, but remained

not remember their past lives.

joyful as their presence here was a clear sign that they were spared from Hell. At the sum-

The artist holds a page from Purgatorio, Canto

mit was the Garden of Eden where those who

XXXIII, which is the last of the second song,

completed their time in Purgatory ascended to

where it is said how Beatrice declares to Dan-

Heaven. Dante was reunited with Beatrice who

te those things that he saw, dealing with and

became his guide in Heaven. Dante and his

demonstrating future revenge and injury in the

guide hear the anguished screams of the un-

aforementioned griffin wagon; and finally, hav-

committed.” —Dante Alighieri

ing seen the four rivers of Paradise, they go up to heaven.

Those who drink from River Lethe experience complete forgetfulness. River Lethe was one of

Card upright keywords: A necessary

the five rivers of the underworld of Hades. Also

intermission. Resting. Releasing. Contem-

known as the Ameles Potamos (river of un-

plating experiences and lessons. Replen-

mindfulness), the Lethe flowed around the cave

ishing. Rejuvenating. Process of reincarna-

of Hypnos and through the Underworld, where

tion.

all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. Lethe was also the name of

Card reversed keywords: Giving up.

the Greek spirit of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often identified. Lethe,

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Divination Theatrics of Dante’s Divine Comedy aligns with similar struggles of any artists life such as these excerpts and figures of speech: “In the Ninth Circle of treachery and in a place of Political Traitors hatefully gnawing away at the flesh in the same manner a desperate dog pulls at stray meat from a bone.” “As Virgil paused, Count Ugolino switched political parties when it suited him and his own personal desires, not due to morality. Archbishop Ruggieri turned against the Count, his political ally, after he either knowingly or unknowingly killed the Archbishop’s nephew. “In my eyes, I saw where both men deserved to be in Hell.” “Ugolino found himself imprisoned in a tower. Eight months passed, and Guido I da Montefeltro took power. He decided that the wooden door to Ugolino’s prison cell would be nailed shut, and the keys thrown into a nearby river. Ugolino would ultimately starve to death” — physically and figuratively. Dante and his guide hear the anguished screams of the uncommitted. From, The Traitorous Pair - Ugolino and Ruggieri: figures in the Inferno, Dante’s Divine Comedy. And, similarly, the musician fights off clinging traitors and performs his work. Card upright keywords: Avoiding traitorous illusions in the Divine Comedy of Art. Card reversed keywords: Betrayal. Solitude.

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Dispatching Souls

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Drinking From River Mnemosyne

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Divination Greek mythology tells of Styx as a deity and a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld, often called “Hades,” which is also the name of its ruler.

The rivers Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon, and Styx all converge at the center of the underworld on a great marsh, which sometimes is also called the Styx. According to Herodotus, the river Styx originates near Feneos. Styx is also a goddess with prehistoric roots in Greek mythology as a daughter of Tethys, after whom the river is named and because of whom it had miraculous powers.

In Inferno, the first cantica of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Cocytus is the ninth and lowest circle of The Underworld.

“Mnemosyne” is derived from the same source as the word mnemonic, which means “remembrance, memory.”

Mnemosyne is the mother of the nine Muses.

Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when reincarnated. In Orphism, the initiated were taught to instead drink from the Mnemosyne, the river of memory, which would stop the transmigration of the soul.

An initiated artist arrives in a land of previous life instilled with a heavy responsibility.

Card upright keywords: Remembering past life. Resolving unfinished purposes.

Card reversed keywords: Misuse of time.

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Divination Dante and Virgil arrive on Mount Purgatory. Wondering and worrying about his shadow Virgil reassures Dante, then Dante talks against Florence and falls asleep. When Dante wakes up by the gate of Purgatory, Virgil tells him St. Lucia carried him there in his sleep. Dante and Virgil climb three steps to the entrance of Purgatory and enter Purgatory proper. On the way from the third to the fourth terrace, Virgil explains to Dante the importance of love in structuring Purgatory. Later, Virgil discourses on love and free will, but admits he can only explain as much as reason will allow. Dante must turn to Beatrice for faith. On the fifth terrace of the Avaricious and Prodigal, Dante and Virgil meet Statius. Statius adores Virgil and Virgil allows Dante to tell Statius who he is. On the sixth terrace of the Gluttonous, Statius explains how his conversion to Christianity was inspired by Virgil’s Aeneid. On the seventh terrace of the Lustful, Dante asks how souls can become emaciated if they don’t require food. Dante is afraid of entering the wall of flame in the seventh terrace but Virgil tempts him with the promise that he’ll see Beatrice on the other side so, Dante walks through the flames where a performer is ghosting the sky and invades their camp as if from another world where this entity has tuned into the past by channeling them, bidding for their knowledge and insight, experiencing what they are in order to take the essence of the experience back to the stage. Card upright keywords: Creative code. Artistic sacrifice. Card reversed keywords: Dubious approaches.

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TRANSCENDING REALMS “Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone. —RUMI

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Dante and Virgil arrive on Mount Purgatory. Wondering and worrying about his shadow, Virgil reassures Dante, then Dante talks against Florence and falls asleep. When Dante wakes up by the gate of Purgatory, Virgil tells him St. Lucia carried him there in his sleep. On the seventh terrace of the Lustful, Dante asks how souls can become emaciated if they don’t require food. Dante is afraid of entering the wall of flame in the seventh terrace but Virgil tempts him with the promise that he’ll see Beatrice on the other side so, Dante walks through flames to another realm. There he sees a performer ghosting the sky, invading their camp as if from another world where the entity of a performer channels them, bidding for their knowledge and insight, experiencing what they are experiencing in order to take the poetic essence of it all back to the stage.” Card upright keywords: Creative code. Artistic sacrifice.

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Sirens

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Divination Dante’s Dream of the Siren. In Greek mythology, the Sirens were dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Plato said there were three kinds of sirens: the celestial, the generative, and the purificatory / cathartic. The Dream of the Siren in Purgatorio 19 as compared to the first dream, whose language is rich and evocative but whose action is fairly simple, Dante is carried aloft, in a terrifying manner, as the dream of Purgatorio IX recounts a complex drama. Dante is seduced by a woman, one who calls herself the very siren who seduced Ulysses. Virgil, overtly chastised by the “donna” for having allowed the siren to make such inroads into Dante’s consciousness; he is responsible for “guarding the threshold of assent,” and is therefore emblematic of reason. Virgil proceeds to explain the dream of the siren as in Purgatorio IX, the dream of the eagle. He explains that Dante saw “quell’antica strega / che sola sovra noi omai si piagne,” “that ancient witch who alone causes the weeping above us.” In other words, Virgil aligns the dolce serena with the vices that are purged, “sovra noi”—“(above us).” The Book Of Waysted “And, the band decreed, you won’t get out alive. And the fans cried, we don’t want out anyway.” Card upright keywords: Feeling trapped and oppressed but addicted to this state due to a knowing that it is right. Card reversed keywords: Seductive allure. Change is up to the individual.

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DANTE’S DREAM OF THE SIREN The Dream of the Siren in Purgatorio19 whose language is rich and evocative.

“

In Greek mythology, the Sirens were dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Plato said there were three kinds of sirens: the celestial, the generative, and the purificatory/cathartic. In Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy the dream of the Siren’s language is rich and evocative.” A Book of Waysted with its related tools, charms and trinkets was created by Londa R. Marks and now accompanies this card and scene. Peter Frederick Way’s initials along with the anthem from Pete Way’s band Waysted is on the cover. WAYSTED ANTHEM

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Dreams & Nightmares

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Divination Dante begins the Divine Comedy with, “filled with sleep” or a “weary body.” Throughout the work, Dante Alighieri recounts vivid dreams and brief sleeps then awakens with rested eyes. Sometimes he was overcome by emotion falling to the ground like a dead body. Narcolepsy, vivid hallucinations, dreams, nightmares and disturbed sleep is found throughout Dante’s work, particularly his 14th-century epic poem where he travels through the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. On the way, he documented experiences of sudden awake-dreaming transitions, visions and hallucinations, unconscious behaviours triggered by emotional falls. Dante interpreted his experience of self in the form of his holy target - his work, his world; that which was dictated by this channeled penance, though, like Plato, Dante attributed much of his influence to the heavenly spheres. The artist awakens from a dream filled with ideas, thoughts, songs and visions. She wants to write a song like the one she wrote and heard in that other world, that dream, no, she wants to visually depict the dreams; she isn’t sure, they all work together, they are one soul. They all come from the same ‘heavenly spheres.’ Card upright keywords: Overwhelmed with ideas, visions and need to coherently deliver what is harvested in dreams, nightmares and visions. Caught in Purgatory. Card reversed keywords: Harmonic discord.

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Dante Looks Towards Purgatory

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Divination Dante looks towards the Purgatoro he invented and the stars and the moon decorating it. He evaluates his journey while holding notes about his experiences and how his world unfolds. Looking at the seashore, at a sapphire sea, a world of light and beauty that takes the place of the “mar sì crudele” (cruel sea) on which the poet’s ship has sailed thus far, the place where all souls, preparing for blessedness, are working to become “new” again: innocent as at birth, innocent as the human race in the Garden of Eden. In the foreground, the second realm, is a version of the performer who appears tired but rather is grounded by the stage floor and at one with music, in a state of daydreaming for the creation of difference and the consequent blurring of distinction, he exploits this freedom to the hilt in the creation as an invented space for which there is absolutely no constraint. Dante oversees artist expression, relates to the subconscious meditation for receiving instruction from other worlds and he too draws from the musicians source while the musician performer draws from Dante’s Purgatorio world. Card upright keywords: That which appears to be sacrifice is a desired realm. Realizing dreams at all costs. Card reversed keywords: Nightmares. Misinterpretation.

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Nine Circles & Seven Gates of Oceanids

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Divination Nine Circles and Seven Gates of Oceanids. In Greek mythology, the nymph daughters of the Titan Oceanus (Ocean), were known collectively as the Oceanids. The Oceanids are not easily categorized, nor confined to any single function, not even necessarily associated with water. The Oceanids were the nymphs of springs, and some of the names reflect this aquatic connection, with some having the names of actual springs. Though most nymphs were considered to be minor deities, many Oceanids were significant figures. Like Metis, the Oceanids also functioned as the wives (or lovers) of many gods. As a group, the Oceanids form the chorus of the tragedy Prometheus Bound, coming up from their cave beneath the ground, to console the chained Titan Prometheus (god of fire). Inferno is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the “realm of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen.” As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. The esoteric Page consumes and hides omens only to use them if necessary on a ephemeral but complex journey. Card upright keywords: Enigmatic. Stealth. Disruptive. Indefinable. Card reversed keywords: Everlasting. Perpetual.

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iNTERPRETER

KNiGHT

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Trickster

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Divination Dante And Virgil In The Ninth Circle Of Hell; The poet’s vision of Hell. Still journeying toward the center of the Ninth Circle of Hell, Dante becomes aware of a great shape in the distance, hidden by the fog. Right under his feet, however, he notices sinners completely covered in ice, sometimes several feet deep, contorted into various positions. These souls constitute the most evil of all sinners—the Traitors to their Benefactors. Their part of Hell, the Fourth Ring of the Ninth Circle, Judecca. Judecca, named after the apostle who betrayed Jesus (Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus with a kiss), is the innermost zone of the ninth and final circle of hell. The last Ninth Circle of Hell is divided into 4 Rounds according to the seriousness of the sin. Though all residents are frozen in an icy lake. Those who committed more severe sin are deeper within the ice. Dante and Virgil advance toward the giant, mist-shrouded shape. As they approach through the fog, they behold its true form. The sight unnerves Dante to such an extent that he knows not whether he is alive or dead. The figure is Lucifer, Dis, Satan—no one name does justice to his terrible nature. The size of his arms alone exceeds all of the giants of the Eighth Circle of Hell put together. He stands in the icy lake, his torso rising above the surface. Gazing upward, Dante sees that Lucifer has three horrible faces, one looking straight ahead and the others looking back over his shoulders. Beneath each head rises a set of wings, which wave back and forth, creating the icy winds that keep Cocytus frozen. And, the entertainer, a conduit for interpreting the darkness in his mind, gathers all his thoughts, emotions, lessons and inspiration to turn this Hell into a beautiful masterpiece of music. Card upright keywords: Music in E minor. Hauntingly beautiful approach to art. Card reversed keywords: Treachery. Trickery. Traitors. Sad cello.

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LA VOLTA

QUEEN

THiNKER

Emotional Independence

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Divination Dante’s Purgatorio XXVII v. 97-99, “Giovane e Bella in Sogno Mi Parka Donna Vedere Andar Per Una Landa Cogliendo Fiori” (Young and beautiful in dream, a woman seen on the land of the park harvesting flowers) in another time, another world not far away. Virgil said, “Remember, remember!” (Purgatory XXVII). Time and memory are the currencies of human affect and love: affect accrues over time and is preserved in memory. The last verse of Purgatorio XXVI, referring to Arnaut Daniel, is “Poi s’ascose nel foco che affina them.” Then he hid himself in the fire that refines them. In Purgtorio XXVII we learn that the refining fire of the seventh terrace must be confronted by every soul who passes beyond the terraces of Purgatory. My gentle escorts turned to me, and Virgil said: “My son, though there may be suffering here, there is no death. Remember remember! If I guided you to safety even upon the back of Geryon, then now, closer to God, what shall I do? “ (Purgatory XXVII v. 19-24) Time and memory are the currencies of human affect and love: affect accrues over time and is preserved in memory. Card upright keywords: Gentle poetic soul with powerful resolve. Solutions through common sense and grace. Creative thinking. Card reversed keywords: Overly determined. Isolation. Depression.

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Divination Paradiso; Italian for “Paradise” or “Heaven,” is the third and final part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. It is an allegory telling of Dante’s journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolizes theology. In the poem, Paradise is depicted as a series of concentric spheres surrounding the Earth, consisting of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, the Primum Mobile and finally, the Empyrean. It was written in the early 14th century. Allegorically, the poem represents the soul’s ascent to God. However, for Dante’s benefit (and the benefit of his readers), he is “as a sign” showing various souls in planetary and stellar spheres that have some appropriate connotation. While the structures of the Inferno and Purgatorio were based around different classifications of sin, the structure of the Paradiso is based on the four cardinal virtues (Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude) and the three theological virtues (Faith, Hope, and Charity). During the course of his journey, Dante meets and converses with several blessed souls. He is careful to say that these all actually live in bliss with God in the Empyrean: But all those souls grace the Empyrean; and each of them has gentle life though some sense the Eternal Spirit more, some less. Card upright keywords: Passion, discipline, power. Intuitively knows how to reach the light, the Empyrean. Card reversed keywords: Indulgence. Self destruction. Misunderstood.

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