Your Tarot Birth Chart

What is a tarot birth chart?

People get their astrology birth chart because it explains them. It takes the one thing they already know, their sun sign, and fills in the rest. A tarot birth chart does the same thing with the cards. It’s set by your birth date, so you don’t need a birth time. You get seven cards: three for you, three for the world you were born into, and your Bearing in the middle, the angle between them.

An example tarot birth chart, for someone born February 16, 1984. See a chart read all the way through →

What your birth chart gives you

It explains you. Your chart puts words to things you already know about yourself: what comes easily, what you keep working on, how you meet people. It’s the reason you’re the way you are, laid out on one page.

It’s the fuller version of your Bearing. If you know your Bearing, you know one card. Your chart shows the six around it, the way a full astrology chart goes deeper than your sun sign.

It makes sense of your contradictions. Some of your cards will pull against each other. That’s normal, and the chart shows you where the pull is coming from.

It gives you a language for the people you love. You can make a chart for a partner, a parent, or a friend and see the cards they came in under. It makes a good gift, too.

It’s yours for life. Your chart never changes. You can come back to it for years and read it differently as you grow. And your Bearing, at the center of it, is the same card that sets your angle on every day in the Almanac.

It’s a snapshot of the day you arrived. You, and the world you showed up in, on one page.

What each position means

You, the person you arrived as

Your year is your core. It’s the deepest, slowest layer of you, the part that stays true after everything else has changed. In astrology, that’s your sun.

Your month is your inner life. It’s how you are when no one is watching. That’s your moon.

Your day is how you meet a room. It’s the first thing people get from you, and it comes out as a Minor card, the everyday you. That’s your rising.

The world you were born into

The world’s year is what you inherited. It’s the card for your whole birth year, shared by everyone born that year.

The world’s month is the season you arrived in. It’s the mood in the air as you got here.

The world’s day is your exact day. It’s the most specific of the three, shared only with people born on the same date.

The card that ties it together

Your Bearing is your angle on the world. It’s the distance between your side of the chart and the world’s, and it’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 simple move: 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.

See a chart worked all the way through · How it works

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