Year ahead
How do you work out your tarot year card?
Use your birthday to find this year's card
Add your birthday and the year together and you land on one of the 22 Major Arcana. That card can be the theme for the year, reminding you what to watch for.
How to work it out
- Add your birth month and birth day to the year you want to look at.
- If the number is greater than 22, add its digits together; if it's still greater than 22, add them again.
- If the result is 22, it corresponds to card 0, the Fool.
For example, born on 24 September, looking at 2026: 9 + 24 + 2026 = 2059, 2 + 0 + 5 + 9 = 16, so the year card is 16, The Tower.
Try it yourself
Year themes for the 22 Major Arcana
| Number | Card | Things to watch for this year |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | The Fool | A new beginning. A good year to try things you've never done; think through safety and budget before you set off. |
| 1 | The Magician | A year for making things. Turn ideas into work, plans, or a visible start. |
| 2 | The High Priestess | Observing and building up. Good for learning and study, without rushing to take a position. |
| 3 | The Empress | Care and growth. Relationships, creative work and your body all do well with slow nurturing. |
| 4 | The Emperor | Building order. Set the structure of your work or life, and make the rules clear. |
| 5 | The Hierophant | Learning and tradition. Finding a teacher, joining a group; commitments will come up too. |
| 6 | The Lovers | Choices and relationships. See clearly what you really value, then decide. |
| 7 | The Chariot | Pushing forward. With a clear goal, you can move fast. |
| 8 | Strength | The strength of patience. Dealing with emotions and things that need long-term care. |
| 9 | The Hermit | Settling and solitude. Good for further study and sorting things out, thinking your answers through. |
| 10 | Wheel of Fortune | Change and transition. Adjust with the timing instead of clinging to the original plan. |
| 11 | Justice | Fairness and decisions. Contracts, accounts and promises are all worth settling clearly. |
| 12 | The Hanged Man | Pausing and changing perspective. Some things need waiting for, and you can see them differently too. |
| 13 | Death | Endings and clearing out. Let what no longer fits come to a close, and make room. |
| 14 | Temperance | Blending and rhythm. Find balance slowly, without rushing to finish everything at once. |
| 15 | The Devil | Seeing what ties you down. It may be a habit, a relationship or a desire. |
| 16 | The Tower | Sudden change. Old structures need rebuilding; deal with what's truly broken first. |
| 17 | The Star | Recovery and hope. Slowly find your direction again, and give yourself time. |
| 18 | The Moon | When things aren't clear. Check the facts first, and look after your feelings. |
| 19 | The Sun | A year of being seen. Good for sharing your results and moving forward with an open heart. |
| 20 | Judgement | Looking back and starting again. Answer the thing you've kept in your heart. |
| 21 | The World | Completing a cycle. Gather your results and get ready to step out into something bigger. |
To draw a full set of year cards, use the birthday year-ahead draw in the online reading app. It works out your year card first, then draws nine cards for the year.
Your year card gives a broad direction. It won't tell you the details of everything. The same card speaks of different things for someone changing jobs and someone who has just married.
How is a year card different from a year-ahead reading?
A year card is a single card worked out with a formula, and anyone can calculate their own. A year-ahead reading means I draw a set of cards for you and look at work, money, love and daily life in the coming year, set out what to watch for and when, and send it to you as a PDF. Year ahead NT$1,800; year ahead + month by month NT$4,200. Available in English.
Common questions
When does a tarot year start?
Which card is 22?
What if my year card is a "bad" card?
To talk in real time, choose a one-on-one reading; to read slowly, choose a written reading. If you're not sure, tell me what you want to ask on LINE.