How the Almanac works, in plain language
The method behind tarot numerology, shown openly. How a date becomes a card, what your Bearing is, how to read your whole chart. You can check every bit of it yourself.
Start here
New here? Start with what tarot numerology is, and what you can learn about how your birthday influences your orientation to the world.
What Is Tarot Numerology?
The idea underneath the whole Almanac: a date becomes a card through arithmetic, not a shuffle. Start here.
How Tarot Numerology Works: The Complete Formula
The full method, shown plainly. The wheel of twenty-two, the mod-22 math, and how any date resolves to a card you can check yourself.
The ideas underneath
A card contains multitudes: a gift, a shadow, a reclaiming, a small piece of a larger narrative. Let’s dive in.
The Shadow and the Reclaiming: Why a Reversed Card Has Two Meanings
Why every card has three faces, not two. What a reversed card actually means, and the difference between a gift distorted and a story refused.
The Major Arcana in Three Stages
The Fool's Journey moves in three stages: Initiation, Testing, Reckoning. What each means, and why your card's stage colors the reading.
Find your own cards
The day you were born, all of your cards were set. Discover what they are, and what that means for how you move through life. Remember, the cards may be set, but what you do with them isn’t.
Your 2027 Tarot Year Card
2027's collective card is Justice. What a reckoning year asks, the twelve month cards it sets in advance, and where your own birthday lands in it.
The 2027 Universal Year Number and Its Tarot Card
2027's universal year number is eleven. Numerology reads it as a two; the wheel of twenty-two keeps it at eleven, where Justice sits. Two very different years out of one sum.
What Is Your Tarot Birth Card?
The card your birthday points to for life. How the Personality and Soul cards are found, and why the Almanac reads yours differently.
Your Life Path Number and Your Tarot Card
Your life path number points to a tarot card. Why a single digit reaches only the first nine Majors, and how the Almanac reads your birthday instead.
What Is a Tarot Bearing?
Your Bearing is the one card you carry your whole life, the fixed distance between you and the world. What it is, and how to find yours.
Your Tarot Natal Chart
The whole picture: seven cards built from your birthday, the self you came in as and the world that caught you, and the Bearing that ties them together.
Your Personal Year Number and Your Tarot Card
Your personal year number points to a tarot card, but a single digit reaches only nine of them and repeats every nine years. How the Almanac reads your year across all twenty-two instead.
The Card of the Year You Were Born
The year you were born has its own card, shared with everyone who arrived in it. Why folding it to one digit reaches nine cards, and what the wheel of twenty-two finds instead.
Your Personal Month Number and Your Tarot Card
Your personal month number points to a tarot card, but a single digit reaches only nine of them and repeats. How the Almanac reads your month across all twenty-two instead.
The Card of the Day You Met
Your wedding date already has a card, and so does the day you met. How to find them in three steps, and why the anniversary is a different card every year.
Who Shares Your Card
Everyone born on your calendar day carries the same tarot card you do. Twenty-two famous people, one for each card in the deck, and the sum that finds yours.
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