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“A Rock And Roll Divine Comedy”

Divinations Booklet CRYPTOGRAPHIC TAROCCHI BOOKLET CREATED AT LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO a FIRENZE ITALY INSPIRED BY SONGWRITER & BASS LEGEND PETE WAY & FLORENCE, ITALY’S SUPREME POET DANTE ALIGHIERI ©2019 LONDA R. MARKS

Kismet, Way Of The Sword - Cryptographic Tarocchi

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

Quick 3-Card Reading Example of a 3-card layout tarot reading with the cards: 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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Example Divination References:

III STAVES Divination: Number 3 factors into project decisions. Foresight per future.

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

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

KISMET WAY OF THE SWORD A Rock And Roll Divine Comedy

LIMITED EDITION 99 TAROCCHI KIT Inspired By Bass Legend & Songwriter Pete Way & Florence, Italy’s Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. Created by Florence, Italy visionary Londa R. Marks. Complete Tarot Kits available in digital and paper kits Includes 78 Tarot Cards & In-depth Booklets. www.wayofthesword.com

DIVINATIONS

Major Arcana

Kismet, Way Of The Sword 0 - XXI Major & Minor Arcana • The Major Arcana conveys a higher purpose. • The Minor Arcana relates to everyday matters.

The Difference Between Magic & Magick • Magic is what a magician does on stage. • Magick is connecting with metaphysical energies. Historically, the Major Arcana are 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.

0 KISMET Divination

AIR - AQUARIUS - URANUS - WINGED SWORD - ANKH

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 ©2019 LONDA R. MARKS PUBLISHED BY ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC 11