Enter your birth date to find your two or three Major Arcana birth cards. The calculation runs entirely in your browser and shows every step for you to check.
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ArcaSeer adds the month, day, century, and last two digits of the year, then maps the total to its Major Arcana birth cards. This method is described by The Tarot School and used in Tarot.com’s birth-card tool.
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Your tarot birth cards are two or three Major Arcana cards worked out from your date of birth. Most dates give a pair; a total of 19 gives three: The Sun (19), Wheel of Fortune (10), and The Magician (1). Many readers treat them as lifelong themes: strengths you can lean on and lessons that keep coming back. Read each card's page, keep what resonates, and let go of what doesn't fit.
Example: 1987-06-14 becomes 6 + 14 + 19 + 87 = 126, then 12 + 6 = 18. The pair is The Moon (18) and The Hermit (9).
A total of 19 returns three cards. Example: 1990-01-08 becomes 1 + 8 + 19 + 90 = 118, then 11 + 8 = 19. The cards are The Sun (19), Wheel of Fortune (10), and The Magician (1).
Compare any result with the complete 78-card meaning library; the calculator links directly to each card it returns.
There is no single official formula. Calculators usually differ in three places.
If another site gives you different cards, check which of these choices it makes before deciding which result to work with.
The calculation can return 12 possible results: 11 pairs and one trio. Each combines Major Arcana cards whose themes work together.
1 / 10
The Wheel keeps changing the conditions, and The Magician is the part of you that acts on them. Together they ask what you can start with the tools you already have once a situation turns.
2 / 11
Justice weighs what can be shown, while The High Priestess notices what has not been said yet. The pair is about matching a quiet instinct with a fair decision you could explain to someone else.
3 / 12
The Hanged Man pauses to see a situation differently; The Empress grows things through care and good timing. Read together, they describe patience that is productive rather than stuck.
4 / 13
Death clears out what has run its course, and The Emperor builds the structure that replaces it. The pair links letting go with the responsibility of rebuilding.
5 / 14
Temperance blends and adjusts; The Hierophant teaches a tradition and its rules. The pair asks how to learn from an established way without copying it whole.
6 / 15
Both cards are about attachment. The Lovers is a bond chosen openly and by your values, and The Devil is one that has started to limit you. The pair asks which of your ties you are still choosing.
7 / 16
The Tower breaks a plan open, and The Chariot pulls scattered forces back into one direction. This pair is about regaining focus after a sudden change.
8 / 17
The Star brings hope back after a hard stretch; Strength is the steady patience that keeps it going. Together they describe recovery built one gentle step at a time.
9 / 18
The Moon is uncertainty while the facts are incomplete, and The Hermit steps away to find guidance you trust. The pair is about moving slowly through doubt by your own light.
19 / 10 / 1
The trio adds The Sun to the Magician and Wheel pair. Skill and changing conditions now lead to a result other people can see, so the question becomes how to use an opening well and let it show.
20 / 2
Judgement is a clear call to respond; The High Priestess is the quiet knowing that usually comes first. The pair moves from private intuition to a decision you are willing to act on.
21 / 3
The Empress nurtures growth, and The World completes a cycle. This pair links patient care with seeing something through to the end.
Many readers treat the higher number as the way a theme shows up in your life, and the single-digit card as the core it keeps returning to. Take The Tower (16) and The Chariot (7). The Tower describes the shake-ups that keep arriving. The Chariot describes the skill you build in response: gathering yourself and choosing one direction.
Then ask where that pattern is active right now, and what one step would use it well. Birth cards are a lens for reflection, not a fixed personality type. Keep what helps.
No. Your birth date stays the same, so your birth cards stay the same for life. Some readers also work out a year card by using the current year in place of your birth year. That card changes on each birthday and describes the theme of a single year. This calculator shows birth cards only.
No. Zodiac cards come from the Golden Dawn correspondences, which pair each sign with a Major Arcana card, such as Aries with The Emperor. Birth cards come from adding up your birth date. The two systems can give the same person different cards.
Yes. Look for a shared card or theme and talk about where it shows up between you. Birth cards do not measure compatibility, so they cannot tell you whether a relationship or partnership will work.