Further defined as an intensity of the psychic processes operating through psychological effects. The face or public mask, we present to the world. The lens through which we project our personality and carry on our daily activities. How we wish to be perceived and how we are perceived. It is an outer attitude developed specifically for relating to and dealing with our environment.
People identify themselves by their persona.
The persona is the role or roles one acts out, but what one actually is not. For instance, a person who dances, believes he is a dancer, acts out the role of a dancer, and sees no identity for himself outside of dance. The danger is to live out ones life in the persona totally, and never to integrate the persona into the self. Persona is astrologically represented by the Ascendant. It is the conscious core of perceptions, attitudes, habits, fears, likes and dislikes that we have acquired from birth, the basis of our persona.