Your Tarot Birth Chart
a natal chart, built from your birthday
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What is a tarot birth chart?
Astrology reads the sky the minute you were born. A tarot birth chart reads the same moment through the cards, built from your birth date instead of the stars. No birth time, no software, no chart you have to pay someone to draw. Just your date, run through arithmetic you can check, turned into seven cards: the person you came in as, the world that was waiting, and the fixed distance between the two.
An example tarot birth chart, for someone born February 16, 1984. See a chart read all the way through →
What each position means
You, the person you arrived as
Your year is your core. The deepest, slowest layer, the part of you still true after everything on top has changed. Astrology would call it your sun.
Your month is your inner life. The weather underneath what anyone sees, how you are when no one is watching. Your moon.
Your day is how you meet a room. The surface, the first thing people get from you. It comes out as a Minor card, the lived, everyday you. Your rising.
The world you were born into
The world’s year is what you inherited. The signature of your whole birth year, shared by everyone who arrived when you did.
The world’s month is the season you formed in. The nearer weather, the mood in the air as you got here.
The world’s day is the day that caught you. The most specific of the three, shared only by people born your exact date.
The card that ties it together
Your Bearing is the fixed angle to the world.The distance between your side of the chart and the world’s, the one card that never changes, whatever the day. More on the Bearing.
How a tarot birth chart is calculated
Every card comes from one move you repeat: add, and if you pass twenty-two, wrap back around the wheel. Only the year gets its digits added up; the month and day go in whole. It’s the same tarot numerology behind every reading in the Almanac.
Common questions
What is a tarot birth chart?
A tarot birth chart is seven tarot cards drawn from your birth date: three for you (your year, month, and day), three for the world you were born into, and the Bearing, the fixed distance between the two. It's the tarot counterpart to an astrology birth chart, built from arithmetic instead of the sky.
How is a tarot birth chart calculated?
Add the digits of your birth year, then fold in your birth month and day, and wrap the total around the twenty-two Major Arcana. Each of the seven positions is one of those sums; the two day positions resolve to Minor cards. It's tarot numerology, and every step is checkable by hand.
Is a tarot birth chart the same as an astrology birth chart?
It's a close cousin. Astrology reads the sky the minute you were born; a tarot birth chart reads your birth date through the cards. Your year card works like your sun, your month like your moon, and your day like your rising.
What's the difference between a tarot birth chart and a tarot birth card?
Your birth card, what the Almanac calls your Bearing, is a single card: the fixed angle between you and the world. The full chart is seven cards, the Bearing included, that together describe the whole picture, not just the one lens.