Tarot Birth Card Calculator
Enter your date of birth to find your birth card, and your soul card when you have one.
What is a tarot birth card?
A tarot birth card is the Major Arcana card that matches your date of birth in numerology. Readers use it as a symbol of a lasting theme in your life, something to reflect on rather than a prediction. Some people also get a soul card, which is the quieter second card derived from the first.
How to calculate your birth card
Write your date of birth as digits and add them all together. If the sum is 22 or less, that is your birth number. If it is higher, add the digits of the sum again until you reach 22 or less. The number points to a card of the Major Arcana, counted from 1 (The Magician) to 21 (The World). The Fool is numbered 0, and a result of 22 also points to The Fool.
Example: 2 April 1976 is 02 04 1976, so 0 + 2 + 0 + 4 + 1 + 9 + 7 + 6 = 29. That is above 22, so add again: 2 + 9 = 11. The birth card is number 11, Justice.
What the soul card is
When your birth number is 10 or higher, adding its two digits gives a second number. In the example, 1 + 1 = 2, so the soul card is The High Priestess. Birth numbers from 1 to 9 have one card only, because they cannot be reduced further. Many readers see the birth card as the outward theme of your life and the soul card as the quieter one underneath.
What do the tarot birth cards mean? All 22 at a glance
Your birth number points to one of these cards. Number 22 is counted as The Fool (0). Select a card for its full meaning, including love, career and health.
| Number | Card | Upright keywords | Soul card |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 / 22 | The Fool | new beginnings, innocence, spontaneity, free spirit, leap of faith, adventure | The Emperor (4) |
| 1 | The Magician | manifestation, willpower, skill, resourcefulness, inspired action, concentration | none |
| 2 | The High Priestess | intuition, inner voice, mystery, subconscious, secrets, stillness | none |
| 3 | The Empress | abundance, nurturing, fertility, creativity, sensuality, nature | none |
| 4 | The Emperor | authority, structure, stability, leadership, discipline, protection | none |
| 5 | The Hierophant | tradition, spiritual guidance, conformity, teaching, institutions, shared beliefs | none |
| 6 | The Lovers | love, union, harmony, values, choices, alignment | none |
| 7 | The Chariot | determination, willpower, victory, control, focus, drive | none |
| 8 | Strength | courage, patience, compassion, inner strength, self-control, gentle influence | none |
| 9 | The Hermit | introspection, solitude, inner guidance, wisdom, soul-searching, withdrawal | none |
| 10 | Wheel of Fortune | cycles, change, fate, turning point, luck, destiny | The Magician (1) |
| 11 | Justice | fairness, truth, cause and effect, accountability, law, clarity | The High Priestess (2) |
| 12 | The Hanged Man | surrender, pause, new perspective, letting go, sacrifice, suspension | The Empress (3) |
| 13 | Death | endings, transformation, transition, release, clearing the way, renewal | The Emperor (4) |
| 14 | Temperance | balance, moderation, patience, harmony, healing, middle path | The Hierophant (5) |
| 15 | The Devil | attachment, temptation, addiction, shadow self, materialism, bondage | The Lovers (6) |
| 16 | The Tower | sudden change, upheaval, revelation, awakening, collapse, truth | The Chariot (7) |
| 17 | The Star | hope, renewal, inspiration, serenity, healing, faith | Strength (8) |
| 18 | The Moon | illusion, intuition, uncertainty, subconscious, fear, dreams | The Hermit (9) |
| 19 | The Sun | joy, success, vitality, positivity, clarity, optimism | The Magician (1), via Wheel of Fortune (10) |
| 20 | Judgement | reckoning, awakening, rebirth, calling, absolution, self-evaluation | The High Priestess (2) |
| 21 | The World | completion, fulfillment, wholeness, accomplishment, integration, travel | The Empress (3) |
Numbers 1 to 9 have no soul card. For numbers 10 to 21 the soul card is the one you get by adding the two digits again: 14 gives 5 (The Hierophant), 20 gives 2 (The High Priestess) and 21 gives 3 (The Empress). The number 19 passes through 10 (Wheel of Fortune) and ends at 1 (The Magician), so it has a connecting card as well.
Birth card and personality card
Many sources call the larger of the two cards the personality card and the smaller one the soul card. In this calculator the first card is the one you get from the full sum, and the second card appears only when that number can be reduced. If you only see one card, the same card plays both roles.
Using your birth card
The birth card is a symbol to reflect on, not a prediction. Read the keywords for the upright meaning, and open the card page for love, career and health. Cards that come up in later readings alongside your birth card are often worth a closer look.
This calculator uses the Rider-Waite numbering, where Strength is 8 and Justice is 11. Some older decks swap these two, which would change the result for those numbers. To explore all 22 cards see the Major Arcana.