Your Tarot Year Card

[Whisper]

Thought it would be interesting to see everyone's Tarot year card for 2019.

 

I'm sure many of know how to calculate this, but I came across three methods posted by MareSaturni at AT. I've now used my own birthday which is June 26 and will use the year 2018 in the examples.

 

I have no idea which one is the most accurate. The tread started by MareSaturni engendered a long debate. Below are the methods:

 

FIRST METHOD: day you were born + month you were born + year you want to check the cards for. You add the digits of the result until you get a number between 1-22.

 

Using this method, my year card for 2019 is:

 

Day: 26

+

Month: 6

+

Year: 2019

= 2051

 

2+0+5+1 = 8 - Strength or Justice, depending on the Tarot

 

This is the most popular method. Some will go from birthday to birthday, but I like the idea of January 1 to December 31.

 

 

SECOND METHOD: day you were born + month you were born + year of your most recent birthday. You add the digits of the result until you get a number between 1-22.

 

Using this method, my year card for 2019 is:

 

Day: 26

+

Month: 6

+

Year: 2018

 

= 2050

 

2+0+5+0 = 7 - The Chariot

 

 

And there's still a third method.

 

 

THIRD METHOD: add the DIGITS that make up the day of your birth, month and year of your most recent birthday. If the result is bigger than 22, you keep adding the digits until you get a number between 1-22.

 

Using this method, my year card for 2019 is:

 

2 + 6 + 6 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 8 = 25

 

2+5=7 The Chariot

 

So, not entirely sure with which to go, but I'm inclined to go with the first method.

 

Having received my Tabula Mundi tarot today, I figured I would go with this deck.

 

 

VIII Adjustment

 

The power of equilibrium. Just the fact that Ma'at (and it is recognizably Ma'at), the goddess of truth, most beautiful of the Ancient Egyptian deities, appears here advocating balance through nuanced adjustments of movement makes me love this card. (Besides, she looks like me when I was younger, LOL). As the Book M: Liber Mundi says, "balance is the adjustment of Karma, and how we learn about what is right. ... It is perception and understanding of destiny." In the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, this card represents "Path 22 [Lamed] from 5 Geburah (Severity) to 6 Tiphareth (Beauty)" which according to David Well's suggests that "the scales of justice are waiting for ... [all of us] on this path from Tiphareth to Geburah, waiting to weigh the good and the bad and to see ... [us] face the consequences of ... [our] actions." The symbolism in this card reminds us that the moment of truth - that moment when we all have to face reality - will come. It comes to all of us."

 

I am put on notice to "direct my destiny with integrity and master reality. Weigh the heart against Truth" and make all necessary adjustments. Be fair and true, since we all get what we deserve (eventually).

 

I do feel that I need to reach a balance both within me and in my life. Hopefully, this year will do the trick.

 

It will be interesting to see how this plays out in my life over the next year.

 

 

 

I hope you will share your Tarot year card, here, mention what method you like best from the three above and, perhaps, return periodically to update the way your card is playing out in your life over the coming year.

 

<3

 

 

 

[joy]

That is interesting!

 

Method 1 = 11 Justice

Method 2 = 10 The Wheel

Method 3 = 19 The Sun

 

Not sure which one I like the best yet....  :bugeyed: :biggrin:

[Grandma]

This raises interesting ideas about the nature of the Fool's journey and the ways in which year cards are valuable, assuming that the point of computing our year cards is to use them in some sort of spiritual guiding way.

 

No matter which method you use, as long as you use the same method each year, you will move up one place in the major arcana each year.  In other words, you will start at a different place in the Fool's journey depending on the method, but once you start, in 21 years you will complete the journey! (Not 22, because 0 is not included.)

 

Who else remembers the days when movies in theaters ran on a continuous loop - previews, cartoons, newsreel, two full length features, previews, cartoons, newsreel, you get the idea.  So it was best to arrive for the previews because that way saw the whole shebang from beginning to end, but if you came in late, you just stayed late and left at the point at which you came in.

 

I fact, "this is where I came in" was a phrase in the common vernacular to conclude a discussion, meaning, okay I've heard everything I need to hear and I don't need to hear it again.

 

So maybe it doesn't matter where we come in as long as we complete the cycle.  This contradicts my philosophy of the Fool's journey and it's making me think, and I love to think!

[Arabella]

Ok so I'm totally bummed out and confused. Method two gives me the moon. Argh! Not happy for that stuff again this year. Method one gives me the sun. Much better, thank you but really quite opposite. What to think.  ???

[Whisper]

That is interesting!

 

Method 1 = 11 Justice

Method 2 = 10 The Wheel

Method 3 = 19 The Sun

 

Not sure which one I like the best yet....  :bugeyed: :biggrin:

 

I look forward to seeing which one you choose, joy!  <3

[Whisper]

This raises interesting ideas about the nature of the Fool's journey and the ways in which year cards are valuable, assuming that the point of computing our year cards is to use them in some sort of spiritual guiding way.

 

No matter which method you use, as long as you use the same method each year, you will move up one place in the major arcana each year.  In other words, you will start at a different place in the Fool's journey depending on the method, but once you start, in 21 years you will complete the journey! (Not 22, because 0 is not included.)

 

Who else remembers the days when movies in theaters ran on a continuous loop - previews, cartoons, newsreel, two full length features, previews, cartoons, newsreel, you get the idea.  So it was best to arrive for the previews because that way saw the whole shebang from beginning to end, but if you came in late, you just stayed late and left at the point at which you came in.

 

I fact, "this is where I came in" was a phrase in the common vernacular to conclude a discussion, meaning, okay I've heard everything I need to hear and I don't need to hear it again.

 

So maybe it doesn't matter where we come in as long as we complete the cycle.  This contradicts my philosophy of the Fool's journey and it's making me think, and I love to think!

 

Ah... you are a person after my own heart, Grandma[/member]! I, too, love to think! Yes, I am old enough to remember those days of the continuous loop in theaters. [emoji4] You're absolutely right.

 

Thank you, too, for affording me the opportunity to learn something, today. I didn't know about the origin of the "this is where I came in" phrase, but it makes absolute sense.

 

Maybe...: when we're born, we obviously start as The Fool, but, perhaps, all through our life we are given myriad opportunities to step on the "merry-go-round". I think this is where we would "come in" and start from there going through the archetypal cycle. Does that make sense?

[Whisper]

Ok so I'm totally bummed out and confused. Method two gives me the moon. Argh! Not happy for that stuff again this year. Method one gives me the sun. Much better, thank you but really quite opposite. What to think.  ???

 

Maybe, this year, there will be a time when the sun influences your life; a time when the moon does, too.

 

Or, you could go with what feels intuitively right to you. Not what you necessarily wish for, though. [emoji4] What do you think?

[Guided Tarot]

Wow, Shivani this is interesting.

[Whisper]

Wow, Shivani this is interesting.

 

Thank you kindly, Guided Tarot[/member].

 

Would you like to try it and share your card?

[Notchdrop]

Thanks for sharing Shivani!

Very interesting!!

 

Method 1 -

7

The Chariot

 

Method 2 -

6

The Lovers

 

Method 3 -

15

The Devil

 

 

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[Grandma]

Maybe...: when we're born, we obviously start as The Fool, but, perhaps, all through our life we are given myriad opportunities to step on the "merry-go-round". I think this is where we would "come in" and start from there going through the archetypal cycle. Does that make sense?

 

Perfect sense!  That's exactly what I was trying to say.  So it really doesn't matter which method we use to compute our birth year, as long as we use the same method each year.  It's just arithmetic.  In fact, if we want to simply choose a Major Arcana archetype randomly or by personal preference and start there, we can devote an hour, a day, a week or a year to focusing on that theme as it plays out in our life. 

 

After all, each archetype is always present.  The concept of the birth year just allows us a way to select which one we are working with now.

In fact, while I was typing this, you (Shivani) were typing this:

 

Ok so I'm totally bummed out and confused. Method two gives me the moon. Argh! Not happy for that stuff again this year. Method one gives me the sun. Much better, thank you but really quite opposite. What to think.  ???

 

Maybe, this year, there will be a time when the sun influences your life; a time when the moon does, too.

 

Or, you could go with what feels intuitively right to you. Not what you necessarily wish for, though. [emoji4] What do you think?

 

So we are definitely thinking alike.  And I love, absolutely LOVE, that we are sitting at our computers in different parts of the world, not even knowing what the other looks like, yet we are so connected.

[joy]

This raises interesting ideas about the nature of the Fool's journey and the ways in which year cards are valuable, assuming that the point of computing our year cards is to use them in some sort of spiritual guiding way.

 

No matter which method you use, as long as you use the same method each year, you will move up one place in the major arcana each year.  In other words, you will start at a different place in the Fool's journey depending on the method, but once you start, in 21 years you will complete the journey! (Not 22, because 0 is not included.)

 

Who else remembers the days when movies in theaters ran on a continuous loop - previews, cartoons, newsreel, two full length features, previews, cartoons, newsreel, you get the idea.  So it was best to arrive for the previews because that way saw the whole shebang from beginning to end, but if you came in late, you just stayed late and left at the point at which you came in.

 

I fact, "this is where I came in" was a phrase in the common vernacular to conclude a discussion, meaning, okay I've heard everything I need to hear and I don't need to hear it again.

 

So maybe it doesn't matter where we come in as long as we complete the cycle.  This contradicts my philosophy of the Fool's journey and it's making me think, and I love to think!

 

Ah... you are a person after my own heart, Grandma[/member]! I, too, love to think! Yes, I am old enough to remember those days of the continuous loop in theaters. [emoji4] You're absolutely right.

 

Thank you, too, for affording me the opportunity to learn something, today. I didn't know about the origin of the "this is where I came in" phrase, but it makes absolute sense.

 

Maybe...: when we're born, we obviously start as The Fool, but, perhaps, all through our life we are given myriad opportunities to step on the "merry-go-round". I think this is where we would "come in" and start from there going through the archetypal cycle. Does that make sense?

And even we go through the whole journey more than once - hopefully - we grow, the circumstances will be different, the environment etc - and it might / hopefully get easier because we learned some lessons?

 

Shivani[/member] I will let you know which I one I will use :-)

 

[Whisper]

Thanks for sharing Shivani!

Very interesting!!

 

Method 1 -

7

The Chariot

 

Method 2 -

6

The Lovers

 

Method 3 -

15

The Devil

 

 

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So, Notchdrop[/member], which one would you choose for your year card?

[Grandma]

And even we go through the whole journey more than once - hopefully - we grow, the circumstances will be different, the environment etc - and it might / hopefully get easier because we learned some lessons?

 

Again, exactly what I was thinking. 

 

In fact, I do it often, and I'm hoping to do it every.  This is how:

 

I pick deck of Tarot cards and I meditate on each of the Majors, starting with the Fool.  As I study each card I focus on the way the archetype is playing out in my life in the here and now.  Sometimes I spend less than a minute with each card, sometimes longer.  As Starlight[/member]'s signature reads,

 

“Tarot helps us look within ourselves to understand our emotions, the reasoning behind our words and conduct, and the source of our conflicts.”

― Benebell Wen

 

And this way of traveling the Fool's Journey again and again is the best way of doing this I've found, and it's the best form of psychotherapy I've found as well.

 

So I think the whole year card concept is a wonderful way of incorporating this practice.  The arithmetical methods of determining where to start are just a helpful artificial construct.  They choose for us where we will begin our journey, and the choice is practical, not mystical, and it doesn't matter which one we use.

[Whisper]

Maybe...: when we're born, we obviously start as The Fool, but, perhaps, all through our life we are given myriad opportunities to step on the "merry-go-round". I think this is where we would "come in" and start from there going through the archetypal cycle. Does that make sense?

 

Perfect sense!  That's exactly what I was trying to say.  So it really doesn't matter which method we use to compute our birth year, as long as we use the same method each year.  It's just arithmetic.  In fact, if we want to simply choose a Major Arcana archetype randomly or by personal preference and start there, we can devote an hour, a day, a week or a year to focusing on that theme as it plays out in our life. 

 

After all, each archetype is always present.  The concept of the birth year just allows us a way to select which one we are working with now.

In fact, while I was typing this, you (Shivani) were typing this:

 

Ok so I'm totally bummed out and confused. Method two gives me the moon. Argh! Not happy for that stuff again this year. Method one gives me the sun. Much better, thank you but really quite opposite. What to think.  ???

 

Maybe, this year, there will be a time when the sun influences your life; a time when the moon does, too.

 

Or, you could go with what feels intuitively right to you. Not what you necessarily wish for, though. [emoji4] What do you think?

 

So we are definitely thinking alike.  And I love, absolutely LOVE, that we are sitting at our computers in different parts of the world, not even knowing what the other looks like, yet we are so connected.

 

We are absolutely, my dear. [emoji4] I feel that same connection.

 

It's something I've always marvelled at myself and find absolutely enchanting. That's why I love this place so much. Not only do I feel I have found my "tribe", so to speak, but the fact that our minds and souls (if I may use that word) can meet in such harmony is truly refreshing. We are even able to read for each other with surprising accuracy without really knowing each other at all. Quite remarkable, when one thinks about it.

 

Pleasure to meet you, Grandma!  X/ <3

[Whisper]

 

And even we go through the whole journey more than once - hopefully - we grow, the circumstances will be different, the environment etc - and it might / hopefully get easier because we learned some lessons?

 

Shivani[/member] I will let you know which I one I will use :-)

 

Yes!!! You're right, joy! I like the idea of the journey becoming easier because we have learnt some lessons. Hmmm..., that gives me more food for thought. Thank you.  <3 <3

 

I look forward to it. [emoji4]

[Whisper]

And even we go through the whole journey more than once - hopefully - we grow, the circumstances will be different, the environment etc - and it might / hopefully get easier because we learned some lessons?

 

Again, exactly what I was thinking. 

 

In fact, I do it often, and I'm hoping to do it every.  This is how:

 

I pick deck of Tarot cards and I meditate on each of the Majors, starting with the Fool.  As I study each card I focus on the way the archetype is playing out in my life in the here and now.  Sometimes I spend less than a minute with each card, sometimes longer.  As Starlight[/member]'s signature reads,

 

“Tarot helps us look within ourselves to understand our emotions, the reasoning behind our words and conduct, and the source of our conflicts.”

― Benebell Wen

 

This is an excellent idea. One that had never occurred to me, but to think about how each of majors is playing out in one's life at any given moment must perforce provide very worthy insights.

 

My husband, like many others, has a somewhat skewed idea about Tarot. You know, the devil's work, charlatanism, etc. and when I try to explain what Benebell has so efficiently articulated but I've been unable to, he doesn't get it.

 

And this way of traveling the Fool's Journey again and again is the best way of doing this I've found, and it's the best form of psychotherapy I've found as well.

 

So true. This is what I try to explain. It really is self-help par excellence. I love this idea of yours. I missed the end of "every"... . Did you mean day, week ...?

 

So I think the whole year card concept is a wonderful way of incorporating this practice.  The arithmetical methods of determining where to start are just a helpful artificial construct.  They choose for us where we will begin our journey, and the choice is practical, not mystical, and it doesn't matter which one we use.

 

Insightful, my dear! I'm thinking now. On a different note, do you think spreads could also be considered artificial constructs?

[Grandma]

I pick deck of Tarot cards and I meditate on each of the Majors, starting with the Fool.  As I study each card I focus on the way the archetype is playing out in my life in the here and now. 

 

What I meant to say is that I read the card deeply, asking it to help me understand its place in my life, but that probably came across.  As you just said, Shivani, the insights it provides are invaluable.

 

Ooops, yes, I meant every day.

 

And yes, of course spreads are artificial constructs.  They are the framework on which we build our readings.  Like with physical structures, the stronger and more carefully designed they are, the better and more efficiently they will support what we use them for.

 

 

[Whisper]

I pick deck of Tarot cards and I meditate on each of the Majors, starting with the Fool.  As I study each card I focus on the way the archetype is playing out in my life in the here and now. 

 

What I meant to say is that I read the card deeply, asking it to help me understand its place in my life, but that probably came across.

 

Ooops, yes, I meant every day.

 

I appreciate that clarification.  <3 I see it's important to understand the card's place in my life at any given moment. This must take you a long time, though, doesn't it?

 

And yes, of course spreads are artificial constructs.  They are the framework on which we build our readings.  Like with physical structures, the stronger and more carefully designed they are, the better and more efficiently they will support what we use them for.

 

LOL. Yes. Thankfully, it didn't take me very long to understand not only the necessity of spreads, but the correlation between how carefully designed they are (or not), their efficacy, and, thus, the accuracy and power of the cards' messages. I think that is one of the most important, if not the most important thing I learned about reading cards. The challenge, now, is to design near perfect spreads.

 

You're right. Very right! Happy that our minds are so in sync, Grandma. [emoji4]

[Grandma]

My goodness this inserting of quotes can get cumbersome, so I'll just respond to points by the old fashioned copy and past method this time.  I'm quoting Shivani in Reply #18 above.

 

"This [Fools' Journey mediation/reading] must take you a long time, though, doesn't it?" 

 

Sometimes I spend less than a minute on each card, sometimes several minutes.  It depends on how whatever deck I pick speaks to whatever place I'm in. And sometimes I even go through the whole deck this way.  I have a current goal of incorporating this into my daily practice.

 

"LOL. Yes. Thankfully, it didn't take me very long to understand not only the necessity of spreads, but the correlation between how carefully designed they are (or not), their efficacy, and, thus, the accuracy and power of the cards' messages. I think that is one of the most important, if not the most important thing I learned about reading cards. The challenge, now, is to design near perfect spreads."

 

And then of course we have the brilliantly intuitive Saturn Celeste[/member] who doesn't use spreads at all!

 

"Happy that our minds are so in sync, Grandma."

 

Me too, and in multiple threads it seems!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RavenOfSummer]

Really enjoying this discussion!

 

The cards I get are Method 1: The Lovers; Method 2: The Hierophant; Method 3: The Devil.

 

However...I am feeling really drawn to work deeply with The Empress this year. And, she is the only major I've drawn so far this year for my Sacred Days of Yule journey! Though there is still time to draw more. But I think I am going to choose to work with her this year. Which is not to say that the lessons of these three cards will not be important to my year as well...in fact, I can already see how all three are needed at this point in time. And I certainly see the value of working through each major as you journey through each year!

[Flaxen]

I’ve always used Method 1 in the past.

 

I get:

 

Method 1: Strength/Justice

Method 2: Chariot

Method 3: Tower

 

The past year has not felt much like a Chariot year - not really forged ahead with much but perhaps I’ve been working the shadow side and not been in control of the horses!

 

Strength as a year card could be a challenge and I definitely could do without the Tower!

[Notchdrop]

Shivani - I think going with The Lovers, definitely. I so want to find my soulmate this 2019! [emoji177]

 

Reversed three of swords??

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[Whisper]

My goodness this inserting of quotes can get cumbersome, so I'll just respond to points by the old fashioned copy and past method this time.  I'm quoting Shivani in Reply #18 above.

 

"This [Fools' Journey mediation/reading] must take you a long time, though, doesn't it?" 

 

Sometimes I spend less than a minute on each card, sometimes several minutes.  It depends on how whatever deck I pick speaks to whatever place I'm in. And sometimes I even go through the whole deck this way.  I have a current goal of incorporating this into my daily practice.

 

I'm going to try it. I'm finding it difficult, right now, to do daily readings for myself, so I think this might be very interesting and revelatory.

 

"LOL. Yes. Thankfully, it didn't take me very long to understand not only the necessity of spreads, but the correlation between how carefully designed they are (or not), their efficacy, and, thus, the accuracy and power of the cards' messages. I think that is one of the most important, if not the most important thing I learned about reading cards. The challenge, now, is to design near perfect spreads."

 

And then of course we have the brilliantly intuitive Saturn Celeste[/member] who doesn't use spreads at all!

 

I know!  For sure, I think, one cannot read cards without the primacy of intuition, but I suppose it depends on the circumstances, what one is looking for, the way cards speak to each of us, etc.

 

I always remember my father saying that one had to be at least sixty years old to be able to really appreciate the music of Bach. Perhaps it is the same with card reading? One progresses towards pure intuition after years of experience? Perhaps it's just a question of confidence and believing in oneself? Believing in that energy that I, like you, posit exists through the alchemy of the cards and our reading of them? Or, is it a true gift like clairvoyance that is visited only upon a handful of people?

 

 

"Happy that our minds are so in sync, Grandma."

 

Me too, and in multiple threads it seems!

 

;D

[Whisper]

Really enjoying this discussion!

 

The cards I get are Method 1: The Lovers; Method 2: The Hierophant; Method 3: The Devil.

 

However...I am feeling really drawn to work deeply with The Empress this year. And, she is the only major I've drawn so far this year for my Sacred Days of Yule journey! Though there is still time to draw more. But I think I am going to choose to work with her this year. Which is not to say that the lessons of these three cards will not be important to my year as well...in fact, I can already see how all three are needed at this point in time. And I certainly see the value of working through each major as you journey through each year!

 

[emoji4]

 

I find that a very interesting point, my dear. Given the arithmetical artificial construct, I would say that going with one's intuition is, in the case of guiding cards, the significant thing to do.

 

Don't ask me why or how - I attribute it to the connection I think we have across the ether -, but I can see how The Empress is an excellent choice for you this year. I am really not able to explain why, but I feel it is absolutely right, somehow.

 

I'm curious... and if you don't mind my asking when you say "work with her this year", what do you mean? What does that look like exactly? Also, why do you say "how all three are needed at this point in time"? I hope I'm not being too personal.

 

I am really interested in how people use Tarot and Oracle cards beyond reading for themselves and others through spreads or intuitively.