The Performer

no matter what the story is, I can suit my self and play my part

The Symbols

Fox, Donkey, Owl, Crow, Rose Tree, Fleur-de-lis, Banjo, Morning, Early Summer

Might Mean

Experience: learn by doing, playing a part in the situation, put in practice, embodiment, rituals, performance, agency, maturity, individuality

Tolerance: forgiveness, accepting imperfections, moderation, leniency, lightness, humor, harmony, humanity, compromise, bending the rules, within limits, fear of conflict, politically correct

Adaptation: change, transformation, creativity, ambiguity, ambivalence, straddling the fence, neutrality, fluid boundaries, poetic justice, craftiness, double-think

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

Human paradox – A Serious Man

Neil as Puck – Dead Poets Society

The many sides of Mr. Fox – Fantastic Mr. Fox

Latin Names Scene, Toast To Our Survival – Fantastic Mr Fox,
Gideon Grey's Apology, Hopp's Final Monologue – Zootopia,
Moonrise Kingdom: The Power Of Rituals

Why Are Things Funny? - Absurdism & Humor,
Trickster gods, Apollo vs Dionysus, Vital Person – Joseph Campbell

"What is right and what is wrong under the new conditions must be determined from a deeper level–from a more fundamental understanding of true morality. To go back to the old standard of "authority" would mean inevitable regression. Those who have assumed the task of determining what is right for themselves can never again find 'goodness' simply by doing what they are told."

–M. Esther Harding, The Way Of All Women

Podcasts:
What's Left When You're Right (Radiolab),
Another Tequila Sunrise (This American Life),
Conan O'Brien podcast with Stephen Colbert

Writings:
Putting your self on the line and playing a part in your story,
Wisdom Lies in Accepting Your Own Foolishness, The Opposite of Shame,
The Nuanced Relationship Between Agency and Victimhood,
How to Negotiate Our Capacities for Good and Evil,
The Politician Is The Malformed Monster Of Our Coexistence

"In myths the acquiring of individuality, of personal autonomy, is always represented as a theft, a stealing of something which the gods have reserved for themselves; for to be individual is to be godlike. Thus we have Adam and Eve stealing the knowledge of good and evil–a knowledge in their case closely linked with the stealing of instinct. The story of Prometheus stealing the divine fire and bringing it to earth has the same motif. But in the myths only the hero was capable of this deed.

–M. Esther Harding, The Way of All Women

Performance, Locus of Control, Ingenuity, Liminal Being,
Totem, Daemon, Symbolic Boundaries, Duality, Self-Actualization,
Superego, Higher Self, Agency, Politics, Tricksters, Humor, Comedy,
Poetic Justice, Karma, Contrapasso, Restorative Justice, Enactment,
Reenactment, Performativity, Masking, Ritual, Catharsis

Literature:
The Musicians of Bremen (Brothers Grimm)
(The story that in part inspired this card, except I traded the rooster for a crow and owl, and the cat and dog for the anthropomorphic fox)

"A donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster (or hen), all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters. One by one, they leave their homes and set out together. They decide to go to Bremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners and become musicians there ("Something better than death we can find anywhere")."

Songs:
Harmonium (english lyrics),
Let Her Dance – I Fought the Law (The Best of Bobby Fuller Four)
The Perfect Life (Moby with Wayne Coyne)