Personal Tarot Card of the Year, with zine
How to Calculate Your Personal Tarot Card of the Year, Every Year
—A Make It Make Sense Guide —
Cover Page of one-page zine on the Personal Tarot Card of the Year (free download below)
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How to calculate your personal tarot card of the year
Each year you have a different card in the Major Arcana that is your Personal Tarot Card of the Year.
Your Personal Tarot Card of the Year is a Major Arcana card that is calculated using numerology, tarot, & your birthdate. It changes each year.
Calculate by adding the single digits of your birthday this year, until you reach a number between 1-22 (the Major Arcana).
EXAMPLE #1: Sum is 1-22.
17 Dec 2024 is:
1 + 7 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 4 = 19
EXAMPLE #2: Sum is greater than 22.
If this sum is greater than 22, keep adding the sum digits together until you reach a number between 1-22.
Ex: 1 Feb 1996
1+2+1+9+9+6=28
Add 2+8=10
11 was this person’s Card of the Year in 1997.
Find the correlating number in the tarot deck.
Ex #1: The number 19 in tarot is The Sun.
Ex #2: The number 10 in the Major Arcana is the Wheel of Fortune.
That card is this person’s Personal Card of the Year
Ex: #1: This person’s 2024 Personal Card of the Year is The Sun.
Ex #2: This person’s 1997 Personal Card of the Year is Wheel of Fortune.
Last month I wrote about the Universal Tarot Card of the Year and this month we’re talking about the Personal card.
The Universal card is a bit like the general vibe of a city. It helps you to pay attention to the general context of the year. And the personal card is a bit like how you can move through that city.
I hear a lot of people talking about these cards as if they are a magic ball that predicts the future. They aren’t.
But I have found these two cards irrationally and delightfully helpful in finding my way through life. They help illuminate and organize patterns within me and in the space I live in.
Year Cycles
Find your Personal Tarot Card of the Year for each year of your life up until now simply by changing the year number in the equation. Finding your lifetime Cards of the Year can help you to see patterns. It helps you to get away from using the cards as a prediction, but rather use them as an illuminator and organizer of your own personal experiences and inner knowing.
Take your Personal Card of the Year this year and see if you’ve had this card in the past. Reflect on what happened during that year. How did you see the energy of this card showing up in your life then? You may find that the same theme that showed up then threads itself into the fabric of this year as well.
You will notice that some cards repeat themselves throughout your lifetime, while others never appear. Again, this is just information. You may find it helpful to reflect on the cards that do not appear and how that energy shows up in your life. You may want to reflect on the cards that appear repeatedly and how that energy shows up and develops with each year it repeats.
The Purpose of the Personal Card of the Year
The reason I use the Personal Card of the Year is because I find it illuminates a part of myself that I might not see otherwise. In a Sun year I can pay attention to how I show up as a leader and where I don’t; how and when my inner child comes out to play; where my joy lives and expresses itself; how my body feels pulled to be outside; and/or to how and where my body responds to warmth, in all it’s myriad ways from human kindness to physical heat.
It is a jumping off point into better understanding your strengths so you can find your way through this wonderful thing called life.
Want to learn about the Personal Tarot Card of the Year this year and what it means for you? I’m teaching a hands-on workshop on this topic in Feb.
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