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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

Virgil & Dante

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

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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 in orange to do a 6 Card Layout Reading with Major Arcana only 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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The Major Arcana conveys a higher purpose. The Minor Arcana relates to everyday matters. Historically, the Major Arcana is also known as trumps. There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack. They are typically numbered from 0 to 21. The trumps originally had little mystical or magical import. The terms "Major" and "Minor Arcana" are used in the occult, and divinatory applications of the deck as in practicing Esoteric Tarot. The Major Arcana originally had simple allegorical or esoteric meaning, mostly originating in elite ideology in the Italian courts of the 15th century when it was invented. By the 19th century, the tarot came to be regarded as a "bible of bibles," an esoteric repository of all the significant truths of creation. The trend was started by prominent freemason and Protestant cleric Antoine Court de Gébelin who suggested that the tarot had an ancient Egyptian origin, and mystic divine and kabbalistic significance. The Major Arcana are considered the most important group of cards in the tarot. To some, they represent universal archetypes. To others, they represent the spiritual quest of enlightenment. They are magickal and special and yet they also represent our everyday lives and experiences. There are many aspects to the Major Arcana and it would be wrong to classify them from just one perspective. Like the rest of the tarot, the Major Arcana are multi-faceted and multi-talented and should be allowed to express themselves in many different ways, from predictive tarot reading, to psychological explorations; from tarot spells and magick to its original purpose – as a game.

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.

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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ExperienceAlchemy ofMadness Destiny

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AIR - AQUARIUS - URANUS - WINGED SWORD - ANKH

Divination In the middle of the path of our life I found myself in a dark forest, having lost the way...” —Dante Alighieri Opening line of the “Divina Commedia” Ah me! How hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more; But of the good to treat, which there I found, Speak will I of the other things I saw there. I have seen you. I do not know how to redirect how I entered you, So full was I of slumber at the moment In which I had abandoned the true way. But after I had reached a mountain’s foot, At that point where the valley terminated, Which had with consternation pierced my heart, Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders Vested already with that planet’s rays Which leadeth others right by every road. Then was the fear a little quieted That in my heart’s lake had endured throughout The night, which I had passed so piteously And even as he, who, with distressful breath, Forth issued from the sea upon the shore, Turns to the water perilous and gazes; So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward, Turn itself back to re-behold the pass Which never yet a living person left. After my weary body I had rested, The way resumed I on the desert slope, So that the firm foot ever was the lower. And lo! almost where the ascent began, A panther light and swift exceedingly, Which with a spotted skin was covered o’er!

And never moved from before my face, Nay, rather did impede so much my way, The time was the beginning of the morning, And up the sun was mounting with those stars That with him were, what time the Love Divine. CANTO I. INFERNO, DANTE ALIGHIERI Typically shown as a Jester or The Fool, the harlequin character in 0 “Kismet, Way Of The Sword,” is one of several harlequin’s throughout the deck that shows up when we need them — need them, not necessarily want them. 0 “Kismet, Way Of The Sword,” is a card that symbolizes a soul’s journey powered by belief; fate, destiny. It is a play, a stage, scenes, possibilities, affirmations; a visionary perspective. Mythological messages and metaphysics of the divine wisdom are derived from the carefree harlequin. Kismet’s trunk is always packed for the next adventure and carries a large key because Kismet’s travels and risks have brought large knowledge - a key to making new decisions. A crow flies along for the ride paying his way by revealing omens. The choice is always: “La Folie ou L’Alchimiste : Madness or Alchemist.”

Far away a light suddenly appears from which a stranger comes to help the author. It is the soul of Virgil. —Divine Comedy Card upright keywords: Alchemist, fate, journey, destiny, grandiose achievements, grandiose losses, seeker, traveler, risk taker, wanderer, freedom, independence, sacrifice. Card reversed keywords: Madness, mistakes, missed chances, stability, stifled, bored, regret.

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EARTH - AIR - FIRE - WATER - MERCURY

Divination The Magician evolves from kismet’s esoteric tradition. Every omen that kismet reveals is a tool to master and makes him a better Magician to teach others or set masterful examples. The Magician understands technique but relies on intuition, emotion and passion to express his wisdom. Naturally, an element of technique is employed but the Magician is wise and realizes that human nature wants what is desired; a magical experience. Mastering tools is never truly accomplished, only levels of mastery. Lifetimes of service to the tools and new tools emerging along the way require sacrifices to achieve magical results. ’T is true that I was conjured once before down here by magic of that wild Erìchtho, who used to call shades back into their bodies. “O, of the other poets honour and light, Avail me the long study and great love That have impelled me to explore thy volume! Thou art my master, and my author thou, Thou art alone the one from whom I took The beautiful style that has done honour to me. CANTO I INFERNO, DANTE ALIGHIERI “Now let Medusa come! We ’ll turn him thus to stone!” INFERNO IX And I to him: “Poet, I thee entreat, By that same God whom thou didst never know, So that I may escape this woe and worse, “Thou wouldst conduct me there where thou hast said, That I may see the portal of Saint Peter, And those thou makest so disconsolate.” Then he moved on, and I behind him followed. CANTO I. INFERNO, DANTE ALIGHIERI Card upward keywords: Tools, Master, Talent, abilities, skills, achievements, alchemy, application, action, curiosity, lessons, omens, messages, confidence, wisdom, obsession. Card reversed keywords: Abuse of talent, disinterested, squandering time, giving up, use of tools/knowledge for negative purposes.

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ViA DELLA SPADA

Indomitable Spirit Indomitable Spirit

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The StudioThe Studio

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WATER - PISCES - NEPTUNE - MOON

Divination Typically named: II The High Priestess, visual artist Londa R. Marks named this card after herself with her birthday 2/26 because this deck is about art, artists, music, what happens at Londa’s Firenze Studio and the stamina to make something grand happen; all of which Londa has spent her entire life devoted to, at all costs, like many artists do, and much like a High Priestess or a Mythological Goddess would. It is about the achievement of her studio in Firenze, a lifetime of persistence, the culmination of determination and drive to be good enough in her own eyes to call herself an artist. Although, a little late to the Renaissance at least she is surrounded by the best even if she just lives in their graveyard. The secrets of the universe are maybe better left as secrets since secrets can motivate. And, only glimpses are really ever shown anyway, but the journey of curiosity can cause historic creations. The High Priestess is often silent because the mystery that comes with magnificent knowledge can be overwhelming to others. She is tenacious and driven. Strong but calm and loving with a soft heart yet has the ability to stay in control in order to get others through their dilemma or simply offer insightful possibilities based on intuitive direction from our incredible universe. She knows her mission in life and conveys needed messages, articulates visually so it can be understood by those pure seekers. She knows and sees what other’s purpose is and how to work with it and achieve an artistic fulfillment like she has from her journey. A natural inclination towards ancient mysteries of tarot has brought thought provoking realization that tools outside of the normal way of thinking are needed. And, in Florence, Italy where ancient knowledge, code and symbolism is the way of life, her cache of insight is nurtured. Once again, the spirits have called her to be available for those who really need her. Though she resisted, metaphysical gifts are not free. Work doesn’t just end with a completed project. With each batch of knowledge gained from a truly magnificent source it must be shared in some way. Kismet has its way of owning you. Once you go through the door, you cannot return. The power bestowed upon her is not hers alone. She is chosen to share these treasures because she can do so in a comprehensible way propelled by Dante Alighieri’s wave of thought: Dante vows to write nothing further of Beatrice until he writes “concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.” The promise is fulfilled in La Divina Commedia, which he composed many years later, expressing his exalted and spiritual love for Beatrice, who is his intercessor in the Inferno, his goal in traveling through Purgatory, and his guide through Paradiso. At first sight of her, in Purgatorio, he is as overwhelmed as he was at the age of nine, and he is dazzled by her presence throughout the journey, until she ascends again to her place in heaven. This expression of sublimated and spiritualized love ends with Dante’s total absorption in the divine. (Britannica) Card upright keywords: Noble heart, mystical, mysteries, mythology, understanding and acceptance, philosophy, strength, teaching, humanism, metaphysics, intuition, morality, way of life, arts and science, philosophy, cryptographics, symbolism, code, spirituality, integrity. Card reversed keywords: Lack of compassion, abuse of power, selfishness, superficiality.

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Queen of the Underworld

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EARTH - TAURUS - VENUS - POLYHYMNIA - MUSE

Divination While Polyhymnia, a siren, plays her song among magical activities the muse of astronomy, Urania, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, known for accurate predictions by seeing the arrangement of the stars. She is considered to be Universal Love who inherited Zeus’s majesty and the beauty of her mother Mnemosyne. Greek mythology is rich with gods and goddesses, but none have been as influential as the nine Muses who were created to give inspiration, knowledge, artistry, and music to the ancient world. Muses are a personified force or source of inspiration for creative artists. Polyhymnia was one of the nine Greek muses of sacred religious music and poetry and sometimes thought of as the muse of thinkers and geometry because she herself is such a deep thinking person. Compared to the other muses Polyhymnia was very serious and conservative. She is always shown wearing a long modest dress with a cloak like veil. A circle of 12 stars radiates from her sword representing the 12 zodiac signs she understands well. Greek thinkers give credit and praise to Poyhymnia saying that it is she who helped inspire them to think great things. Polyhymnia means “the one of many hymns.” She is also sometimes credited as being mentioned in Dante’s epic poem Divine Comedy (Paradiso, Canto XXIII, Line 56). The siren song was a promise to Odysseus of mantic truths; with a false promise that he will live to tell them, they sing. Once he hears to his heart’s content, sails on, a wiser man. We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured. Song that as greatly doth transcend our Muses, Our Sirens, in those dulcet clarions, As primal splendour that which is reflected. And as are spanned athwart a tender cloud Two rainbows parallel and like in colour, When Juno to her handmaid gives command, (The one without born of the one within, Like to the speaking of that vagrant one Whom love consumed as doth the sun the vapours,) Muses are usually not chosen but arrive at the right time and the allure is usually for both the receiver and the muse. This may be attributed to biophotons. Muses tend to know when they are needed even if subconsciously and can be disturbed by those provoking vibrations that show up unexpectedly. IT’S KISMET! It’s Biophotons. Biophotons (from the Greek βίος meaning “life” and φῶς meaning “light”) 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. Card upright keywords: Inspiring, mother nature, fruitful, natural attraction, siren’s songs, bringer of light and truth, guide, philtre - love potion. Card reversed keywords: Vacuous allure, quick ending infatuation, miscarriage, disruption of time.

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Earned Bow

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Fire - Aries - Mars - Ankh

Divination Achievement has been gained and a bow has been earned. Though he bows with honor he almost drops to the ground from exhaustion. The artist is powerful but “Kismet, Way Of The Sword,” has made him humble and prepared for historic record. On this stage visitors to Il Porcellino put a coin into the boar’s gaping jaws, with the intent to let it fall through the underlying grating for good luck, and they rub the boar’s snout to ensure a return to Florence, and stop by the street musician to drop a few more coins in appreciation for entertaining gestures. In Circle 4, Dante also encounters Avicenna, a Persian polymath, and Averroes, a medieval Andalusian polymath known for his commentaries on Aristotle’s works. Dante and Virgil depart from the four other poets and continue their journey. Canto IV Dante wakes up to find that he has crossed the Acheron, and Virgil leads him to the first circle of the abyss, Limbo, where Virgil himself resides. When Dante asked if anyone has ever left Limbo, Virgil states that he saw Jesus (“a Mighty One”) descend into Limbo and take Adam, Abel, Noah, Moses, Abraham, David, and Rachel (see Limbo of the Patriarchs) into his all-forgiving arms and transport them to Heaven as the first human souls to be saved. Dante encounters the poets Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan, who include him in their number and make him “sixth in that high company”. They reach the base of a great Castle – the dwelling place of the wisest men of antiquity – surrounded by seven gates, and a flowing brook. After passing through the seven gates, the group comes to an exquisite green meadow and Dante encounters the inhabitants of the Citadel. These include figures associated with the Trojans and their descendants (the Romans). Dante next encounters a group of philosophers, including Aristotle with Socrates and Plato at his side, as well as Democritus, “Diogenes” (either Diogenes the Cynic or Diogenes of Apollonia), Card upright keywords: Persistance, backbone, loved by all whom he has fortified, inspirational, stable, powerful position, wise, harnessed authority yet humble remembering where he came from. Card reversed keywords: Unfulfilled dreams, empty retirement.

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Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. ©2019 Londa R. Marks Published by Alchemist Publishing LLC Kismet, Way Of The Sword Inspired by Bass Legend Pete Way & Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. Londa R. MarksGOD Published by Alchemist Publishing IMAGE CARD: IV ©2019 MYTHOLOGICAL FROM “KISMET, WAYLLC OF THE SWORD.”

IV Of Swords

MYTHOLOGICAL GOD It’s a game, but it isn’t. A bow has been earned.

Though he bows with honor he almost drops to the ground from exhaustion. Both sides of the blade have been experienced. “I’m a man of extremes.”

—PETE WAY

DE-CODING The four symbols of the emblem symbolize: FIRE. WATER. EARTH. AIR. The Latin phrase around the V (Vatican) from year 1059 translated: “Does not matter whether he is well, when you are destined, no matter, Angelica is a poet.”

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Indulgences

ANAEL

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EARTH - TAURUS - VENUS - INDULGENCES

Divination The god-like harlequin upon his Romanesque throne connecting to the supreme authority awaits to answer prayers submitted to his indulgences payment boxes. Drop a note with a coin to buy some of the harlequin’s time and clout, prayers and songs to the spirits for attention to his requests. Eyes are nailed shut so he cannot see to judge but listens to pleas for penance. Sinners acquire certain liabilities: the liability of guilt and the liability of punishment. An indulgence, a song, is “a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins.” It might even reduce the “temporal punishment for sin” after death, in the state or process of purification called purgatory. When Beatrice first refers the author by name in the composition, she calls him “Dante”. That part is the 55 in the composition (5 + 5 = 10). Before the following part there are 54 songs 5 + 4 = 9 and then 90` 9 + 0 = 9. Dante seeks to emphasize that his God is a God of love, even though He created an underworld designed to torture sinners. The inscription atop the gates stresses that God was moved by justice, wisdom, and love when He created hell. Beatrice’s explanation in Canto 2 for why she does not fear for her safety as she travels through hell: ‘’I am so fram’d by God, thanks to his grace! That any suff ’rance of your misery Touches me not, nor flame of that fierce fire Assails me.’’ In this passage, we have another example of Dante’s emphasis on the love and grace of God. Beatrice is so confidant in God’s protection of her, that she is clearly not concerned about the horrors that she sees around her in the underworld. Card upright keywords: Invocations, enchantment, promise of eternity and forgiveness, feeling better from the hand of a god, payment for penance. Card reversed keywords: Exorcism, criticism, judgmental.

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M RiTUALS

Sacred Rhythms

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AIR - GEMINI - MERCURY - SERPENT TREE

Divination Marassa are the divine twins in Vodou. They are children, but more ancient than any other loa. “Love, truth and justice directed by reason, mysteries of liaison between earth and heaven and they personify astronomic-astrological learning. They synthesize the vodou Loa as personification of divine power and the human impotence. Double life, they have considerable power which allow them to manage people through their energies. They are children mysteries. They are also referred to as “mystères” and “the invisibles” and are intermediaries for the “good God”)—the Supreme Creator, who is distant from the world—and humanity. Unlike saints or angels, however, they are not simply prayed to, they are served, they are loved, and these twins love. But they are each distinct beings with their own personal likes and dislikes, distinct songs, dances, ritual symbols, and special modes of service. The loa are not deities in and of themselves; they are considered intermediaries for, and dependent on, a distant Bondye. They belong to the theatre of drama and rituals with an echo of sacred rhythms in the background enchanting the players and audience with a mesmerizing atmosphere and chemical cocktails laced with pheromones. A harlequin mask lays on the floor, like an enticing pile of gifts, with tarot cards to choose from and receive predictions of either yes or no answers. Love, which in gentlest hearts will soonest bloom seized my lover with passion for that sweet body from which I was torn unshriven to my doom. Love, which permits no loved one not to love took me so strongly with delight in him that we are one in Hell, as we were above. Love led us to one death. In the depths of Hell Caïna waits for him who took our lives.” This was the piteous tale they stopped to tell. Card upright keywords: Love laced with drama and theatrics, echo of familiarity. Echo of Psyche and Eros, mesmerized. Zeus made Psyche immortal so that two lovers could be together forever. Card reversed keywords: Trials, rehearsals, promises.

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Stage Of Dreams

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WATER - CANCER - MOON - TIME CHANGES

Divination On this stage of dreams Zeta Leonis is guided by the energies of his guitar, his magickal tool that speaks to him. He is intuitive and can be taken or takes others to the zone with his musical vehicle. Zeta Leo, ζ is a third-magnitude star in the constellation of Leo, the lion. It forms the second star (after Gamma Leonis) in the blade of the sickle, an asterism formed from the head of Leo. Zeta is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet but in the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin, letters that arose from zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З. The musician character is Pete Way whose signature bass guitar is the Thunderbird. 7 is the day Pete Way was born in August. He is a Leo. Dante’s seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above lead to the Purgatorio notable for demonstrating the medieval knowledge of a spherical Earth. During the poem, Dante discusses the different stars visible in the southern hemisphere, the altered position of the sun, and the various time zones of the Earth. The figure 7 has an important place; it is used in 7 terraces of Purgatory. In many religions figure 7 is associated with divine power. It also symbolizes the 7 days, the seven phases of the moon, 7 days of creation from nothingness and the 7 planets known in ancient times. In the Kabbalah 7 sefirot (Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and Malkuth) describe the primary and secondary conscious divine emotions. The sefirot of the left side and the sefira of Malkuth in Kabbalah describes a vessel that receives the outward male light. Card upright keywords: Vehicle for transformation, world class achievement, excellent performance takes one to the universal zone where intuition is nurtured. Card reversed keywords: Empty stage, no audience.

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Power Moves

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AIR - LIBRA - SUN - CONVICTION - INFINITY

Divination A wild cheetah faithfully guards a strong willed female notifying her of its loyalty and strength to her prowess. She holds a heavy sword among an idolizing audience and chess pieces surround her. One of them holds a scale reminding to balance ideas. An ancient card game book includes instructions and rules for ways to play the game but the larger than life chess pieces indicate that big risks can produce magnanimous results if done so in a fair manner. Perfectly paired artists align with each other on a stage to produce spectacular creative results wining the scene by emitting uncommon, enchanting, seductive sounds, thoughts, ideas and feelings in an abstract theatre; energies ablaze from power moves. Much like Dante’s ability to transcend the traditional limits of art he derived from his innate strength. The Divine Comedy illustrates Dante is a master storyteller. The poem is a spellbinding journey. The Divine Comedy, Dante’s great poem is the fantastic story of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; an arduous task that takes great strength, determination, and conviction with any artistic destiny.

Card upright keywords: Statement of faith, code, equity, standing firm in shared beliefs. Presence and energies, frequencies, fairness. Card reversed keywords: Unfair approach, missed chances, replay, start again, loss.

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EARTH - VIRGO - SATURN - GATE KEEPER

Divination As a child Londa would draw out her visions as original characters and scenes. Scenes seemed to come to life in some way, either through dreams, Catholic school mates or church props. She designed fashion first inspired by Italian Renaissance and actress Sophia Loren. Her scenes were similar to tarot cards and included women dressed eloquently in fashions she created. Scenes were titled like one she drew with a fashion model standing at a Y shaped street like where Londa lives in Italy now. Londa placed a sign on the street titled, “Vacant Way.” Little did she know she would be living on Way Of The Sword in Florence, Italy 50 years later where fashion is also prevalent. But art has a type of supernatural power to it. Art is a type of affirmation. In this card the visual artist stands vigil over parallel worlds seeing a musician on one level and her on the other, both reflecting their realms, both becoming the light encased in magick solitude. In Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy there are nine circles in Hell. Later, there are nine spheres in heaven as well. The number three was the number of God, a number Dante emphasizes throughout ... and nine is the number of miracle, as every reader of the Vita nuova knows. Sequencing and numerology was quite complex in this preeminent work of Italian literature. The structure of the poem is quite complex, with mathematical and numerological patterns. He is fascinated with the number 3; along with the numbers 7 and 9 are throughout the poem. Love which is gentlest treats teats will Soonest bloom… Love permits no loved one not to love… Love led us to death Card upright keywords: Light, standing vigil, standing by your ideas, magick solitude. Card reversed keywords: Missed chances, replay, start again, loss.

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Chances

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X WHEEL OF DREAMS By LONDA R. MARKS

FIRE - SAGITTARIUS - JUPITER - LUCK

Divination Typically, this is titled Wheel of Fortune but it really is about a Wheel Of Dreams. To each person fortune is different. Though money can come from achieving dreams true fortune is having built dreams into reality for many years and seeing those dreams come to life and others finding value in them. Anything Londa has achieved, tarot decks, music magazines, products, has appeared magickal to others. However, a secret about something magickal can be described like this: Londa’s son exclaimed to her about the place he moved to. He said it is magickal! She told him it is not magickal, it looks magical because it was built by hard working, sacrificing people who wanted a community that was magickal-like. And, that is magick. That is what magickal dreams are made of, sacrifice and hard work. Money is nice but it is not as rewarding as having built something that looks magical to others. It is believed that Dante Alighieri suffered from narcolepsy, a sleep disorder which may have been a source of creativity as narcolepsy sufferers often report very lucid dreams. He built these dreams and one of the dreams including The Divine Comedy, completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Card upright keywords: Magick, dreams, ideas, hard work, creative thinking, rewards. Card reversed keywords: Lethargy, wanting something handed to you, superficial reasoning.

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Vibrations

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Xi FORTiTUDE BY LONDA R. MARKS

FIRE - LEO - STAR - INFINITY

Divination Fortitude is an important element in achievement but vibrations from others who are on the same wave length as you can become the difference between mediocre and mythic. When you have the same type of fortitude, thinking and ideas as someone else that you are close to or working with there is a positive charge of frequencies that you either draw from or magnetize to yourself — and vice versa. Add to that Fortitude, bravery, being firm in educated decisions, following through regardless of how hard it is — is what makes things happen, that and sometimes working harder than anyone else. But that comes from having the fortitude to do so. It is not as easy as it sounds but worth it. Throughout Purgatorio, stars symbolize the light of God’s grace. In particular, the stars symbolize different virtues that are reflective of good, godly behavior. At the beginning of the poem, four stars hang in sky. They represent the “cardinal” or “natural” Virtues of justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude. Lombardo, a soul in Purgatory, explains, “the stars initiate” human behaviors—that is, to some extent, humans are naturally predisposed to behave in certain ways—but this isn’t the full story. Lombardo argues that God imbued humans with the ability to discern right from wrong and then choose accordingly, which is also known as free will. This final prayer is made, O dearest Lord, not for ourselves (we now have no such need). We speak for those behind us, who’ve remained.’ Then praying, for themselves and us, ‘God speed’, these shadows made their way beneath such loads as sometimes in our nightmares can be seen. We surely ought to help them cleanse the marks that they bore hence – till, light in weight and pure, they’ve power to rise towards the wheeling stars. Canto 11, Divine Comedy Card upright keywords: Courageous, divinity, stamina, steadfastness, mythic proportions. Card reversed keywords: Adversity, danger, weakness.

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GOTH iC

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P PLOT

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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Xii L iMBO By LONDA R. MARKS

FIRE - LEO - STAR - INFINITY

Divination Being in a situation where no progress is made no matter how much sacrifice has happened can seem like a Gothic plot straight out of the dark ages. This is when things can turn around though if fortitude is applied. As difficult as anything is, forcing self to get up and keep going can cause one to transcend above it all. If you feel all is lost think about how short life is and be curious enough to just see what does happen - it will all be over soon enough and what you take into the next life can be a series of problems you may have to spend the next life sorting out if not resolved now. The most important lessons I have learned is fairness to self and others, consistency, longevity, building, getting through the darkest times, using limbo times to create something of value because that helps you rise above it all like a phoenix. It is rewarding to shape-shift through it - not necessarily financially but becomes a facet of what your life is about and what you have created so you can see who you really are. Limbo, the extreme edge of the infernal ravine houses souls of virtuous pagans and children who died without baptism, who did not sin but are excluded from salvation; they do not suffer any pain, but are suspended and live in the unattainable desire to see God, continually moaning making the dark air of the Circle tremble. In Canto II of the Inferno Virgil tells of how Beatrice had descended into Limbo to induce him to help Dante in the forest, described in Canto IV. The two poets meet the souls of four poets (Homer, Horace, Ovid and Lucan), then visit the castle of the “great spirits,“ or the souls of the pagans who distinguished themselves particularly in life. A halo of light surrounded by seven walls and a small river where Virgil explains to Dante that the souls of the biblical patriarchs remained in Limbo until the Resurrection of Christ who then went down to Hell to take them all to Heaven. Card upright keywords: Force self to be your best self. Solving problems, finding solutions, transcending. Card reversed keywords: Trapped, bound by negative thoughts and energies. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, In The Realms Of Dante’s Limbo The Irish writer, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde understood life as a work of art and, as he said on numerous occasions, was in his life where he had put all his genius, while in his work only his talent. He liked to look at himself in the mirror of The Divine Comedy and compare his vital moments with those of Dante Alighieri’s work. His life is the perfect drama of someone who has achieved everything the world can offer and then suddenly lose it. —Javier de Isusi, Oscar Wilde’s Divine Comedy “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray “I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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LAST ACT

Xiii

REGENERATOR

Checkmate

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Xiii DEATH MASKS By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER - SCORPIO - SATURN - MARS

Divination Is it the last act of our lives or is death a regenerator from this life to another? Masks used in a theatrical way hide one type of personality and convey a different one. The death mask symbology of Lorenzo de Medici and Dante Alighieri represents a life once lived that contributed historical value for many centuries thereafter; still living and inspiring as the person they were but may also be living as a different human being now; someone who has shed one shell to accommodate another. The main character representing Death on this card is shown as a harlequin but with Girolamo Savonarola’s eyes. As he was in the 15th century arrogantly he stands in the center of a chess game acting cocky but hidden in his costume he is bullying behind a harlequin mask and cockily announcing the fact that he was able to dispose of their lives - he thought - by having his bonfire of the vanities and destroying priceless works of art out of competitive jealousy and enviousness which Lorenzo and artists like Dante represented. The irony is, Giraolamo was hung and burned in the centre of the Piazza della Signore where he held his envy built bonfire, and his body parts were thrown into the magnificent Arno river, eaten by the fish and bottom feeders. So, yes, checkmate Girolamo; Kismet! - You chose the wrong side of the blade! Dante Alighieri believed everyone is responsible for their own future and have to deal with the consequences. The Divine Comedy Inferno, actions always have a consequence, now or in the long term. Card upright keywords: Esoteric principals of death can simply be related to using the knowledge that one day we must die, and then we may have to pay for our actions in this life, so today we must live our best life. We may need that best part of ourselves again in another lifetime. Card reversed keywords: Arrogance boomerangs harshly.

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.14 MUSiC

XiV

D iMENSiONS

Underworld

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V iSiONARY

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XiV ViSiONARY By LONDA R. MARKS

FIRE - SAGITTARIUS - SATURN - CHALICE

Divination Two artists, two visionaries shown: Londa R. Marks and Pete Way, hovering over the Arno river with bridges stitching together the Oltrarno and Firenze Centre: the underworld where consciousness somehow intertwines with pure seekers of a realm of the Renaissance, either from those artists who lived then or from their own past life selves. A crow watches and guards them on their journey. The fool card falls in the air to signify the risks taken and the risks ahead but belong to part of the Renaissance remnants with two crystal skulls holding an elixir of memory and, “The Book Of Waysted,” with all its trinkets and reminders of youth - a bible of artists, proudly exclaiming its anthem: The Book of Waysted “And the band decreed You won’t get out alive. And the fans cried, We don’t want out anyway.” Appropriately so, ironically so, this anthem can apply to all aspects of art and artists. Artists have fans, artists are usually fans of other artists and none of them can escape Kismet and honestly, don’t want to. “Through me the way is to the city dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost. Justice incited my sublime Creator; Created me divine Omnipotence, The highest Wisdom and the primal Love. Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last. “All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” -Dante, ‘Inferno’ Canto III The journey Dante takes, as all artist’s take, is a psychological one, as much as a metaphysical one. The particulars, while informed by Christian belief, are predicated on much deeper elements of the human condition, expressed masterfully by Dante throughout the Commedia. Card upright keywords: Insight and vision, creative way of life, music and art; The Principle of Vibration: Nothing rests; Everything moves; Everything vibrates. Card reversed keywords: Ignoring intuition.

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O PARAD iSO

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XV DiViNE COMEDY By LONDA R. MARKS

EARTH - CAPRICORN - SATURN - DEMON

Divination Divided into 3 parts, Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio, the great story by Dante Alighieri, the father of language, describes his journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In this work, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth. After passing through the vestibule, Dante and Virgil reach the ferry that will take them across the river Acheron and to Hell proper. The ferry is piloted by Charon, who does not want to let Dante enter, for he is a living being. Virgil forces Charon to take him by declaring, Vuolsi così colà dove si puote / ciò che si vuole (It is so willed there, where is power to do that which is willed), referring to the fact that Dante is on his journey on divine grounds. In similar struggles, on divine grounds, fiercely trying to carry out their fateful journey the visual artist holds a medieval blade inscribed with music, the musician uses his magickal tool to push through the circles of hell to achieve artistic musical goals. They both align with each other’s vibrations clinging to each others powers, relying on each others strength to achieve magnanimous dreams. A radiant light beckons. The way is shown but suddenly is jealously overshadowed by an evil angel with sharply honed wings of hatred and vengeance arriving to thwart any attempts into the light so the creators remain on the edge of nine circles of torment. Card upright keywords: Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio, vision and sound, determination, unstoppable with severe prices to pay. Card reversed keywords: Stress, tension, extreme efforts.

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SACRiF iCE

XVi

ANGU iSH

La Vita Nuova

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DANTE’S TOWER

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XVi D ANTE’S TOWER By LONDA R. MARKS

FIRE - ARIES - MARS - METAMORPHOSIS

Divination Divided into 3 parts, Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio, the great story by Dante Alighieri, the father of language, describes his journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In this work, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth. After passing through the vestibule, Dante and Virgil reach the ferry that will take them across the river Acheron and to Hell proper. The ferry is piloted by Charon, who does not want to let Dante enter, for he is a living being. Virgil forces Charon to take him by declaring, Vuolsi così colà dove si puote / ciò che si vuole (It is so willed there, where is power to do that which is willed), referring to the fact that Dante is on his journey on divine grounds. In similar struggles, on divine grounds, fiercely trying to carry out their fateful journey the visual artist holds a medieval blade inscribed with music, the musician uses his magickal tool to push through the circles of hell to achieve artistic musical goals. They both align with each other’s vibrations clinging to each others powers, relying on each others strength to achieve magnanimous dreams. A radiant light beckons. The way is shown but suddenly is jealously overshadowed by an evil angel with sharply honed wings of hatred and vengeance arriving to thwart any attempts into the light so the creators remain on the edge of nine circles of torment. “From there we came outside and saw the stars. But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay. Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” – Dante Alighieri, Inferno Card upright keywords: Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio, vision and sound, determination, unstoppable with severe prices to pay. Card reversed keywords: Stress, tension, extreme efforts.

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DANTE’S

XVii

DAGGER

“ L’amor che move il Sole e l’ altre Sella”

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STARS

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XVii STARS By LONDA R. MARKS

AIR - AQUARIUS - URANUS - STAR GODDESS

Divination Julia Zenobia, third century Queen of Palmyrene Empire in Syria founded the Neo-Platonic school in Apamaea. Julia was a cultured monarch and fostered an intellectual environment in her court, which was open to scholars and philosophers and was discussed in Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Platonic Academy during the 15th century Renaissance. Marsilio Ficino, Medici astrologer, also translated Dante‘s state theoretical work De Monarchia into Italian, work that was also burned in the “Bonfire of the Vanities” in 1497. This card takes on Julia Zenobia’s spirit with the artist fiercely holding Dante’s Dagger while Sopdet, ancient Egyptian name of the star Sirius and its personification as an Egyptian goddess, assists in her loyal stance staking claim to the power of the stars in order to channel those energies to the worthy musician nearby keeping him high above admirers and competitors because she knows of his adherence to his burning intuition, brilliant starlight, unique personality and natural abilities which requires him to be unattainable; all of which makes a star, a star like those artists of the 13th and 14th centuries fighting to keep their arts, ideas and work remaining on a starlit pedestal of history. “I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.” —Dante Alighieri Card upright keywords: Positive energies, white light and frequencies drawn from the stars, keeping a bright light bright. Beyond comprehension. Card reversed keywords: Unused talent, overly egotistic, ungrateful.

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EXCESS

XViii

DELiR iUM

Absinthe

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LUNA

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XViii LUNA By LONDA R. MARKS

WATER - CANCER - MOON - LIGHT

Divination The happy harlequin is enjoying some fun time at a festival but will later fight with delirium; a price to pay for excess. But never-mind, because right now the full moon stokes up a side of him that he usually hides but can help him flourish in his work. He is part of a road crew needing a break from the serious side of managing structure and architecture of a stage. Now he plays a bit and sends his exhaustion to the ethers of absinthe and the green genie. The partially hidden moon shoots some of its energy to the skull of a crow who signals that life as we know it is short so imbibing now relieves his stress and even fortifies his cache of knowledge in a mystical way while elements of the moon’s residue dance around him with memories that have fondly become part of his personality. First Sphere (The Moon: The Inconstant) (Canto II, Divine Comedy): Yet an experiment, were you to try it, could free you from your cavil, and the source of your arts’ course springs from experiment The waxing and waning of the moon is associated with inconstancy. Consequently, the sphere of the Moon is that of souls who abandoned their vows, and so were deficient in the virtue of fortitude. (Canto IV, Divine Comedy): for will, if it resists, is never spent, but acts as nature acts when fire ascends, though force a thousand times tries to compel. So that, when will has yielded much or little, it has abetted force as these souls did: they could have fled back to their holy shelter. Card upright keywords: Psychological seduction. Card reversed keywords: Ignoring talent, overly egotistic, not comprehending.

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FORCE

XiX

V iTA

Empowerment

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XiX iLLUMiNi By LONDA R. MARKS

FIRE - LEO - SUN - VITA

Divination Music is an artistic demand that can be exhilarating when an extension of feelings bond with a musicians’ creation of sounds and frequencies. On XIX Illumini, artist Pete Way is immersed in a world he creates with his musical emotions that shine a very illuminating light for those who know how to experience him. Every 500 years or so someone comes along that wields a type of powerful inspiration that affects artists and their followers. Dante Alighieri 700 years ago and Lorenzo de’ Medici 529 years ago was like that. His affect, his energy, his biophotons and fateful existence affected some of the world’s greatest Renaissance period artists. Still, not many know who Lorenzo de’ Medici was. Yet, still, some of the greatest influence is executed that Lorenzo inspired. Those few artists who are affected enough by that one leader instinctively feel a desire to burn out an extension of that leader, and maybe they are an extension of that leader. About 500 years later, like a spiritual tradition, Pete Way enters. He is one of those rare, uniquely talented artists and leaders whose biophotons ignited the 1970’s rock community influencing and inspiring many artists from then to today; those who instinctively and intuitively know, they are here for historic purposes, and are a reminder that Pete Way fired all cylinders, shook and rocked his peers like few others have, still does, and reinvents himself time and again as if he is his own work of art; well, he is. Nikki Sixx and Steve Harris are just two of those Pete Way emulations in the small but effective circle of today’s “Renaissance” artists affected by Pete Way’s fiery aura, vibrant energy, intuitive frequencies with the universe and unstoppable knowing he has a mission to accomplish — at all costs. “Only those two lights that ascended wear their double garment in this blessed cloister. And carry this report back to your world.” (Paradiso 25.127-29) Card upright keywords: Mind altering experience for the positive. Exceptional outcome. Soul changing for the better. Unexpected gifts. Card reversed keywords: Illusions at first but turns around. Slower growth than expected but growth.

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Background: Sonett von Dante Alighieri, Contributor Poet, Painter, Musician Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Ink Markings 1865

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TREACLE PEOPLE I walked through this place, although it wasn’t really there And when I reached the other side, thought I didn’t really care I moved round a bit, and started seeing people And the people that I met, oh were all covered in treacle Everyone was laughing, everyone except for poor old me, So I tried to entertain them, oh but they were hard to please As time went by, oh backwards I walked Backwards I talked, and backwards I laughed. Lyrics Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Mick Bolton Treacle People lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Carlin America Inc UFO 1 Released October 1970

“They must therefore walk backwards because they cannot look forward.” —Dante Aligheri, Divine Comedy

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N THEOLOGY

Karma

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XX GAMES OF LiFE By LONDA R. MARKS

FIRE - SAGITTARIUS - PLUTO - REBIRTH

Divination On a life sized chessboard-stage a tired and bored defacto judgmental authority figure is stationed where he feels it is his duty to determine if others are worthy of playing the next game and if they should be moved to a higher winning level or demoted to a lower level. Players, props, mannequins and statues take their positions at this event to audition. An astrolabe reminds us of all the different kinds of problems in astronomy, convoluted astrological chaos and cryptographic clues that can affect the nature of the game. Colors, atmospheric conditions, numbers and Roman numerals aid in formulating divinations so the players can predict the outcome or circumstances that could occur. Curiosity seekers calculate how to play the games of life in order to get approved by Judgment. All are caught in a level awaiting and theorizing the nature of God and reincarnation, awaiting a chance to ‘get it right’ in their next life. In the light to lift off towards a grand entrance is bass legend Pete Way. When Dante Alighieri’s concern of the afterlife in Divine Comedy included his choice of Virgil as his guide through hell and purgatory. Virgil described the descent of mythological Trojan hero Aeneas into the underworld. By beginning his own descent on Good Friday, Dante created a blend of Christian traditions with the model of epic pagan heroes who journeyed into the underworld. He presented Virgil as one who already knew the way, or as one who was fit to guide the new initiate in this cycle of symbolic death and spiritual rebirth. Card upright keywords: It’s ‘right’ now, all answers bring more questions never answered. Nothing is for sure, we only make our moves. Card reversed keywords: Determined to do it the ‘right’ way.

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FiRENZE

XXi

MED iC i

Paradiso Sempre

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XXi WAY OF THE SWORD By LONDA R. MARKS

FIRE - WATER - EARTH - AIR - PARADISO SEMPRE

Divination WORLD OF TAROT reached!—by “Kismet, Way Of The Sword, because the artist chose Alchemiste instead of Madness—or, maybe they are the same thing.” Artist reached the World Of Tarot in the last part of her life; her power spot. Was it really kismet or destiny? Was it fate? Were all spots along the way power spots? Did she create her existence and her way there?” Is our life chosen by us or by our own design? Or, is it both fate and hard work? Kismet happens through hard work but the hard worker does so because of being driven to make something happen. Willingness does not allow anything to stop someone. And, now, the artist holds close to her heart her most treasured gift in life: an original nail, centuries years old, from Villa Medici Cafaggiolo in Mugello valley near Londa, Italy in the Metropolitan City of Florence and central Italian region of Tuscany. The ancient nail was given to her a year after arriving in Florence and her visit to the castle. It is from the property owners of what was Lorenzo de’ Medici’s home where he grew up and was originally owned and established by his great grandfather Averado de’ Medici in 14th century. The nail is symbolic of foundation, permanence, home. In Purgatorio, an allegory telling of Dante’s journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolizes theology Paradiso 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 - the highest heavenly sphere in ancient and medieval cosmology consisting of fire and or liquid light. In early 14th century this represents the soul’s ascent to God. Card upright keywords: Major achievement, worldly accomplishments, change of life, change of residence, finding the right spot in life, knowing where you are ‘truly’ from and where you are supposed to be, finding that location where your star dust first landed and reconnecting with it. Card reverse keywords: Believe me when I say, it is not luck. Do not rely on luck, rely on hard work and extreme effort. Weakened power. Not at your power spot.

Shamans See Power Spots Clearly “In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is not time for regrets or doubts... Find your spot of happiness and you will find your power.” —Carlos Castenada’s Shamanic Indian friend Don Juan

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