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Doing human incarnation well requires playing many roles and accepting multiple identities. A woman's life may require her to play daughter, sister, lover, mother, grandmother, crone, student, professional, retiree, etc. Even in the course of a single day, you may be required to play several roles and work from multiple identities. Often, we may experience a larger archetypal identity within — hero, sage, prophet, etc., while we are perceived as something much smaller in the outer world. I may be a legend in my own mind, but to the outer world, I may present as a weird old guy working on an eccentric website.

We're the star of our movie, but since other people tend to be the stars of their movies, we may show up in their movie as an extra helping to fill in a crowd scene. Mutants are likely to feel a painful tension between their sense of themselves and the roles they have to play in the world. We live in a society that celebrates and rewards certain things — the ability to skillfully manipulate a stock portfolio or chuck a football, for example — but is notoriously deficient in recognizing other abilities such as empathy, individuation, and many creative talents. For example, most people can give you the names of several famous quarterbacks but would be hard-pressed to think of the name of even a single online oracle creator, even though the fate of the species depends on their tireless and humbling labors.

Consider the occurrence of this card an auspicious time to accept and work skillfully with your many roles and identities.