The Nobody

feeling out of place I split up to find myself in another light

The Symbols

Nightingale, Bluebird, Wind-Up Bird, Beech Tree, House, City, Moon, Night

Might Mean

Invisibility: need for privacy, working in the shadow, being away from the spotlight, anonymity, humility, experience of losing oneself

Emptiness: absence, living in one's head, being distracted or not in one's body, virtual reality, impersonality, feeling unimportant or not being seen as a person, loneliness

Idealization: imagination, fantasy, escaping reality

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

Understanding Characters in the Movie Paterson

The Story of a Man Who Doesn't Exist (Mr. Nobody),
Ethan Hawke on the Experience of Losing Oneself,
What Is Imposter Syndrome and How To Combat It

Podcasts:
A Tattoo for The Living (Modern Love),
The Night Girl Finds A Day Boy (Modern Love),
The Story of Zero (Radiolab),
The Color Blue (This is Love),
Being a Nobody in Paris (This American Life, hear clip below)

Writings:
The Shadow Muse, Shadow (Psychology), Idealization and Devaluation,
Privacy, Anonymity, Nothing, Darkness, The Void, Chaos

Literature:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (the novel that inspired this card)

(Toru, while thinking in the dark well) "I saw myself as the wind-up bird, flying through the summer sky, lighting on the branch of a huge tree somewhere, winding the world's spring." "Have you ever had that feeling – that you'd like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?"

Bluebird (Bukowski)