Symbolon Deck

29 MARIONETTE

Brief Description

The Marionette represents a loss of personal autonomy and authentic self-expression, symbolizing someone controlled by external forces through material desires and social expectations. This card warns of becoming a puppet in others' games, sacrificing individuality for the illusion of perfection or acceptance. The archetype combines the Lover and Tempter energies, creating a beautiful but hollow form manipulated by unseen hands. It calls for awareness of manipulation and the courage to reclaim one's authentic self from the strings of materialism and conformity.

Keywords

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Keywords

Barbie doll syndrome, remote-controlled sensuality, flawless appearance, lack of independence, dependency, affectation, others' rules, fixation on material things, digestive disorders.

Card Description

Astrological Correspondence

Taurus\Scorpio

Planets

Venus\Pluto.

Archetypes

Lover + Tempter.

The Image

Lover plus Tempter. The result is a doll. Large vacant eyes. Strings that someone pulls. The Marionette is completely under someone's control. Who pulls her strings?

The Hidden Controller

Unknown, this is a hidden character. What do the strings represent? They are all material things, money and such. The Barbie complex - wonderful appearance and an absolutely empty head. This is an object of manipulation. Her forms are perfect, while content is completely absent.

Infantile Nature

She is infantile. The doll mindlessly follows others' commands. Can be a front person. Who controls her? Unknown, this is a hidden character, invisible on the card, but the Tempter's signature is recognizable. He manipulates so skillfully that a person doesn't notice how they lose themselves.

The Strings Above

What are the strings stretching upward? These are all material things - money, goods, fashion in clothing, phones, music, waist size, behavioral style, thinking and lifestyle. The Marionette is driven by the desire to conform to generally accepted norms.

Perfect Form, Empty Content

Her external form is perfect with complete absence of content, and consciousness is undeveloped. The Marionette is like Ellochka the Cannibal from Ilf and Petrov's novel 'The Twelve Chairs' with her competition with foreign Vanderbilt lady, vocabulary of 30 words and life credo.

Symbols and Colors

Doll - object of manipulation. Strings - material fixation.

Card Meanings in Spreads

Positive Meanings

Ability to keep a good face during a bad game, sex appeal.

Negative Meanings

Infantilism, lack of independence, dependency, affectation, being an object of manipulation.

Card for the Day

Being a pawn in someone else's game. You'll have to play an imposed role, perform the actions of a pawn in someone else's game.

Necessary Actions

You may be manipulated today, used for others' purposes.

Conclusions to Draw Today

If you engage emotionally in someone else's game, you can lose your individuality.

What I Can Learn Today

Today you can learn to act according to your assigned role without engaging emotionally in the situation.

Behavior Among Your Circle

Your environment imposes its will on you, but not openly, but by involving you in their 'dirty games'. Today it's important to realize others' motives toward you. Understand where you're being used, who controls you.

Motive

Material. Shifting responsibility. Keeping a good face during a bad game. Desire to get your 'strings' - money. Fear of being yourself and showing independence. Striving to match the level, fashion and other external 'manifestations of society'.

State

Rejection of your 'self', lack of independence, absence of awareness of what's happening. Falling into dependency that you don't even realize. Illusions that a person can manipulate someone.

Dependencies

Dependence on advertising, magazines. Fear of going into life.

Process

Playing in someone else's goal. A person is being manipulated. The card often indicates that a person is entangled with someone from the ancestral system.

Relationships

Outwardly prosperous, but without any feelings. They have no soul, no humanity, no naturalness. Partners pull each other's strings. Sex appeal as hypercompensation for frigidity.

Relationship Tensions

Constant tension between sincerity and deception. There is no sincerity or feelings in relationships, only mutual manipulation.

Warning

Risk of losing yourself, your individuality, becoming a reflection of others' expectations.

Advice

Perceive the situation as a game. Don't engage emotionally, just play your role. If the spread is about work, it's advisable to change it.

Result

Get your carrot by playing someone else's game. You will receive your share by playing by others' rules, following others' instructions.

Additional Notes

A person who is not independent, complete absence of awareness.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Peter Orban, Ingrid Zinnel, Thea Weller

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