Tarot Birth Cards How It Works

Major Arcana

A standard deck has 78 cards, but Birth Cards draw exclusively from the 22 Major Arcana, The Fool through The World. While the 56 minor suit cards reflect situational, day-to-day shifts, the Major Arcana map the universal macro-stages of a life, which is why your birth date links to this set specifically.

Digital Reduction

Your Birth Card is found by adding the digits of your full birth date together, then reducing that sum until it lands between 1 and 22. For example, April 14, 1985 gives 1985 + 4 + 14 = 2003, and 2 + 0 + 0 + 3 = 5, landing on card 5, The Hierophant.

Birth Card

Many birth dates reduce to a pair rather than a single card, read together as one integrated theme. Your primary card describes your outward expression and how you consciously meet challenges; your secondary card describes your internal terrain, the motivations and undercurrents running beneath it.