We know exactly what would be good for us, what would bring us into our strength and beauty, yet we often choose things and behaviors that lead us astray. Bad Influence tempts us to not take things so seriously and to nibble at the forbidden fruit, which is sometimes the best idea. 

Walk in the shoes of this role and see how it fits you. The bad influence offers you various things or ways to get you off the ‘straight and narrow’. The bad influence offers you a cigarette or suggests that you drive a black car. The Bad Influence role is nonconformist, does not care about conditioned behavior and false morality. You are the pirate of your heart. 

The Bad Influence has no choice but to trust his or her own inner voice and its truth, almost inevitably moving outside the zone of what the Norm considers ‘right’. The Bad Influence role remains true to itself and does not sell out to false conformity for the sake of dubious security. Bad Influence encourages you to ‘go off the rails’, to ‘let your guard down’. This can get you into trouble, but it can also be relieving and helpful, especially when the ‘right path’ has become a boneheaded duty…