Your Tarot Birth Card

Your tarot birth card is the one Major Arcana card set by the day you were born. It's the same card every time you check, and it's yours for life. We call it your Bearing, the angle you bring to the world.

Yes. Your tarot birth card is a reading set entirely by your date of birth: your birth month and day name the one Major Arcana card you carry, with no shuffle and no sign-up. For the fuller picture, your seven-card birth chart reads your whole date of birth, and the daily Almanac reads each day from your birthday too. See the full seven-card version.

Yes. Your birth card is a birthday tarot reading in the truest sense: it comes straight from your birth month and day, names one Major Arcana card, and reads the same every time, with no shuffle and no sign-up. If you want a reading that moves day to day, the Almanac reads each day from your birthday too, and the full birth chart reads your whole date of birth. See today's reading from your birthday.

If you mean the one card that's yours for life, that's your tarot birth card, and the calculator above finds it. Enter your birth month and day and it names the Major Arcana card your birthday points to.

It's the same thing as your tarot birth card: the one Major Arcana card set by your birthday, the card you carry your whole life. Enter your month and day in the calculator above and it'll name yours right away.

Enter your birth month and day in the calculator above and it'll show up right away, free and with no sign-up. To work it out by hand, add your birth month and birth day, then wrap the total around the twenty-two Major Arcana.

Not for your birth card. It's set by your month and day alone, which is why it stays the same your whole life. Your birth year only comes in for the full seven-card birth chart.

Because we work it out differently. Most calculators add up your whole birth date, year included, and reduce it to a small number, so some cards can never come up. We use your month and day around the full wheel of twenty-two, so every card is in play. Here's the full explanation, with both methods side by side.

No. The popular Mary Greer and Tarot School method adds up your whole birth date, year included, and reduces it to a Personality card and a Soul card. We use only your month and day, wrapped around the wheel of twenty-two, so you get one card, and every card in the Major Arcana is in play. See both methods side by side.

That comes from the Mary Greer and Tarot School method, which adds up your whole birth date and reduces it. When the total reduces to a two-digit number and then again to a single digit, you get two cards: a Personality card and a Soul card. Our method uses your month and day around the full wheel of twenty-two, so it gives you one card, your Bearing. Both methods, side by side.

They're the two cards the traditional method gives you. The Personality card is the one you present to the world, from the two-digit total of your birth date. The Soul card is the deeper one underneath, from reducing that total to a single digit. When they match, you have one card. In our method, the single card your birthday points to is your Bearing. How the methods compare.

It's a close cousin. Astrology reads the sky the minute you were born, and your tarot birth card reads your birthday through the cards. Both give you a fixed lens, set by when you arrived. If your birth card is like your sun sign, your tarot birth chart is like your full astrology chart.

Your birth card is one card. Your tarot birth chart is seven cards, with your birth card in the middle, three cards for you, and three for the world you were born into. Together they give you the whole picture. See what a full tarot birth chart holds.

No. Your daily cards change, and your year card changes with the calendar. Your birth card is set by a birthday that never moves, so it stays with you for life.

Yes. Finding your birth card and reading what it means costs nothing and needs no account. The paid parts are optional: the full seven-card birth chart, and the Almanac subscription that gives you your cards day by day.

Yes, just enter their birth month and day. It's a fun one to look up for the people you love, and a full birth chart makes a good gift.

Give it a minute, and read its full meaning. Your birth card is the angle you meet the world from, underneath the day to day, so it can take a while to recognize. It also sits inside a chart of seven cards that fills in the rest of the picture.

They're the twenty-two named cards of the tarot, from the Fool at zero to the World at twenty-one. Your birth card is always one of them, and you can read all twenty-two above.