Program 10-20-10: Mimicry
A gift for observation that learns by drawing on those who succeed, and finds its real strength when imitation helps you become yourself.
- keen observation
- chosen inspiration
- personal style
Program 10-20-10: Mimicry at a glance
In a new environment, you quickly pick up the gestures, tone, and codes of those who succeed and adjust without friction. This power of observation eases learning, helps you find your place, and can serve the stage: comedy, impressions, voice acting, any performing trade where slipping into a role is a pleasure.
By dint of copying, you can lose sight of your own tastes: adopting the style, opinions, or spending of those you admire, aiming at the look of success more than success itself. Get in the habit of noting what you truly like and asking whether a choice comes from you or from a model.
- The card 10
- X · Wheel of Fortune
- The card 20
- XX · Judgement
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
What this program carries
According to the method, the person who carries it takes their cue from the look and conduct of people who succeed.
Its strengths
Taken literally, this inclination sometimes leads to the stage: comedy, parody, impersonation, or any other performing work. One can see in it a great capacity for observation and adjustment, which helps find a place in a new environment.
Where it can get stuck
Nothing in the sources gathered describes the downsides of this program: they are only guessed from its title and the method’s short definition. The risk is that imitation takes over from personality: adopting the style, opinions, or lifestyle of those who succeed to the point of losing sight of one’s own tastes, or aiming for the appearance of success rather than success itself.
What helps
These suggestions follow from the program’s name. Use imitation as a learning stage: observe a person who succeeds, spot the precise quality that works for them, then ask yourself how to express it your own way. Write down your own tastes and opinions from time to time, without comparing yourself. If acting appeals to you, try theater, improv, or voice-over: that is the most direct version of this program.
In everyday life
Within a few months, you buy the car, the watch, and the vacations of colleagues who impress you, then notice that the budget has melted away without your life being any happier.
Take an evening to draw up two lists: what you admire in them, and what you really like, you. Then keep the quality that inspires you, such as their ease in public, and let the rest go.
A symbolic reading of the Destiny Matrix: food for thought about yourself, never a verdict or an established fact.
Go further
Wheel of Fortune
The card of energy 10Judgement
The card of energy 20
How is it calculated?
First calculate all the points of the matrix, then look at each line of three points.
Fictional example, March 14, 1987: the finance line brings together points c1 = 10, x2 = 11, and x = 19. These three numbers form program 10-11-19, “Burnout, flare-up.” Order does not matter: 19, 10, and 11 would give the same one. The karmic tail is not part of this search; it has its own reading. In all, this date carries nine programs, including 17-22-5 for the talents of the paternal line and 20-3-10 for the maternal line.
Frequently asked questions: program 10-20-10: Mimicry
Is imitating others always a flaw?
No, it is a natural way to learn. Children, artists, and craftspeople all begin by copying. The trap appears when imitation replaces the search for your own voice. Spot the precise quality of a model, such as their way of listening or organizing, then ask yourself how to translate it in your own way.
How can I rediscover my personal tastes?
For a month, note what pleases you without anyone knowing: a dish, a piece of music, a way of spending Sunday. When a choice comes up, ask what would attract you with no outside gaze. Little by little, a list takes shape: that is your style, to cultivate and to own.
Does this program predispose you to performing careers?
It can point toward theater, improv, voice acting, or any performing work, because it gives the wish to observe and slip into another skin. It commits you to nothing: a trial class is enough to see if the pleasure is there. Many mostly gain an ease in communication, useful in any profession.
Programs: the 22 energies
- Program
Program 9-20-11: Disappearance of the lineage
The feeling of being the last link of a worn-out family, and the strength to become the one who picks up the thread. - Program
Program 10-15-5: High spiritual mission of unification
A talent for bringing people together around an idea, which becomes a mission when the person dares to embody it instead of merely imagining it. - Program
Program 18-10-10: Fear of trusting
A concrete mind that wants to verify everything and learns that relying on life, or on something greater than oneself, is not a danger. - Program
Program 20-3-10: Betrayed trust, motherhood
A tempered character that learns to place its trust with discernment, and to experience passing on life without inherited fear. - Program
Program 13-7-20: Danger on the road, in decisions
A foresight that protects loved ones and, well dosed, finally allows leaving, changing jobs, or moving to another city. - Program
Program 10-5-22: Inquisition
Firm convictions that become a strength when they leave everyone the right to live in their own way. - Program
Program 19-9-10: Pure flow
A limpid influence that lifts those who come near, and that asks for intentions as clear as the gift itself. - Program
Program 20-4-11: Taming aggression
A gentleness that calms the anger of others and that learns not to smother its own.
Illustrations: Nicolas Conver’s Tarot de Marseille, dated 1760, restored by Tarot World Project, CC BY-SA 4.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons — images resized and compressed by Versana.