Platonic Academy Tarot Booklet

PLATONIC ACADEMY TAROT

PLATONIC ACADEMY TAROT™ Published By Alchemist Publishing LLC For World Of Tarot™ Copyright ©2010 Londa Marks ISBN-13: 978-1-935615-30-9 ISBN-10: 1-935615-30-0 Concept & Design By: Londa Marks Written By: Londa Marks Credits: Commons Wiki, Wikipedia, Genre: Visionary/Metaphysical Collectable Tarot Cards PRODUCT DETAILS Designed & Written By Londa R. Marks • Full Color Major Arcana Deck • 2 Extra Cards • Size: 2.75” x 4.75” • 66 Page booklet; download after purchase • Deck comes beautifully packaged in shrink wrapped box

Dedication The Platonic Academy Tarot deck and book are dedicated to those intellectual minds who question, wonder and search for answers beyond the obvious to make themselves more enlightened like The Platonic Academy of Athens, Greece and Cosimo de’ Medici and Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Platonic Academy of Florence, Italy. Thanks Many thanks goes to my son Edward who works day and night on my tarot projects. His patience is that of Job’s and his diligence in inventing methods and perfecting printing and packaging of my work is nothing less than that of a Renaissance craftsman. Without him my tarot decks such as: The Alchemist, Medici Tarot, Fiorenza Tarot, Ancient Magick to The Platonic Academy and more would not have been possible. Tarot Card Graphics The Platonic Academy Tarot deck consists of ancient paintings graphically composed through cutting and colorizing, manipulating original images through replacing characters, item placement, architecture or character placement, costumes, scenes and overall atmosphere to present a montage of images related to the card title and description. The images were created before the text was written. About Artist, Author Londa Marks (born 1952) is an American artist, author published by U.S. Games Systems for Crow’s Magick Tarot which has been in print since 1997. Londa Tarot also published by U.S. Games Systems which was in print from 1993 to 2004. As of 2011 she

has created a total of 9 tarot decks with over 220 original paintings and drawings along with over 70 montages. Alchemist Publishing has published her works since 2001. She studied under New York artist Murray Stern (19271985) from 1972 - 1974, an art professor from Athens, Ohio, whose work is in the Kennedy Museum of Art Collection. He encouraged her to focus on her original characters and worked closely with her at West Virginia University and his studio to help her cultivate her unique talent. Influenced by Italian history especially from the 15th century, the majority of Londa’s tarot decks are centered around or inspired by elements of the Renaissance and medieval period. Londa grew up in a Catholic environment in Ohio where Italian history was omnipresent and not only a constant reminder of the Renaissance period but of the importance of old world quality craftsmanship. As a perfectionist she incorporated her son Edward Nichols, a student of Italian art history, former craftsman of reproduction medieval period furniture and former set builder for movies and commercials in Burbank, CA, into her studio in 2002 to print and package her tarot decks to adhere to her strict quality guidelines. An antique library case that held Shakespeare, Plato and Aristotle’s works was in her father’s library during Londa’s childhood years. As an artistic child, those books intrigued her. The library case was kept locked though, adding even more intrigue to the mysteries it held. But, her father’s answer was always the same. “They’re over your head” he would say. Relentlessly, she pursued and each time she could talk her father into opening the creaky door to the book case so she could just look at them and touch them that old world smell would lazily drift out and surrounded both her and her father. It was as if they were looking into a time- machine and being

lured back in time by the seductive smells of history. It was intoxicating being that close to ancient minds and to be able to touch their works and the frail pages that held their ideas and thoughts. Londa continued to watch the bookcase daily with wonder and hopes that it had been left unlocked by mistake so she could consume more of Plato and Aristotle’s esoteric knowledge. She looked forward to the day that she could have a relationship with all the knowledge that was inside those crumbly old books. After her father died, she inherited the precious books he carefully collected throughout his life then she understood why the case was always locked. The brittle pages were written for a mind that had created and experienced much more than just a twelve year old starry eyed artist would have. Experience was key to understanding at least fragments of the historic insight. To read any aspect of their works allows one a glimpse of ancient thought that was indeed over Londa’s head as a child, though she believed if her father had spent time explaining the works to her that she would’ve been engrossed in the essence of their messages. He was not a teacher though. And, apparently he felt that they were light- years ahead of what she could comprehend at the time. For Londa, though it was the forbidden that probably held magick and she swore to herself that the day would come when she would connect with historic figures that her father held in high regard. Treasures Though many years since those days have passed that childhood curiosity still drives Londa’s life’s work; not

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