A three-card spread, laid out the old way
Give the deck your name and birthday. It is shuffled, cut and dealt the way readers do it at the table, and three cards turn over for you.
Nothing here is a coin toss dressed up as tarot. Each step follows a practice tarot readers actually use.
Your card for the year comes from Mary K. Greer’s widely used Year Card method: add your birth month, birth day and the current year, then add the digits of the total until you reach 22 or less. That number names a Major Arcana card (22 is The Fool).
We simulate nine riffle shuffles, the number needed to mix a deck of 78 cards thoroughly, turning a packet around now and then as readers do, which is where reversed cards come from. Then the deck is cut into three piles and restacked. Your name, birthday and the date are the seed, so you get one honest draw per day and per month.
The art is the Rider–Waite–Smith tarot drawn by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909, now in the public domain. Meanings follow A. E. Waite’s 1910 Pictorial Key to the Tarot and the modern reading tradition built on it.
Twenty-two cards for the great turning points of a life. Open any card to read its meaning upright and reversed.
The FoolThe FoolI
The MagicianThe MagicianII
The High PriestessThe High PriestessIII
The EmpressThe EmpressIV
The EmperorThe EmperorV
The HierophantThe HierophantVI
The LoversThe LoversVII
The ChariotThe ChariotVIII
StrengthStrengthIX
The HermitThe HermitX
Wheel of FortuneWheel of FortuneXI
JusticeJusticeXII
The Hanged ManThe Hanged ManXIII
DeathDeathXIV
TemperanceTemperanceXV
The DevilThe DevilXVI
The TowerThe TowerXVII
The StarThe StarXVIII
The MoonThe MoonXIX
The SunThe SunXX
JudgementJudgementXXI
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In tradition you draw your daily card once. Your name, birthday and the date seed the shuffle, so asking again on the same day returns the same card. Tomorrow brings a new shuffle; the month card changes each month.
A reversed (upside-down) card points to the same energy turned inward, blocked, delayed or overdone. It is not automatically “bad”. Year cards are read upright, as in Greer’s method.
Year cards are calculated by numerology rather than drawn, and the numbers 0–22 map to the 22 Major Arcana, the cards of life’s large themes.
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Tarot is best used as a mirror for reflection, not as a forecast. Please don’t base medical, legal or financial decisions on a reading.
