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Eight of Swords and Imposter Syndrome at Work
Before a leadership talk, Eight of Swords reversed named the invisible script I kept mistaking for reality.
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Eight of Swords reversed appeared the night before my first leadership talk. I had rehearsed the slides six times and still felt like someone would expose me in the first five minutes. My reader asked, "What story are you telling yourself about not belonging?" That landed harder than any prediction. The room was not a cage; my script was.
The presentation went fine. Not brilliant, not disastrous — fine. Tarot had named the real obstacle: self-imposed limits, not competence.
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