Just a bit of Tarot Court Card fun to start us thinking about what we want for ourselves in 2018. I’ve done this for the past couple of years and it’s just a bit of fun, not rooted in any deep and meaningful ancient system. Just my own 🙂
So, you might be working out your Major Arcana card for 2018 to give you a THEME for the coming year, as inspired by your personal year data.
To find our what your personal year card is, take your day and month of birth and and add to 38 (ie 20+18, the incoming year).
Here’s an example: mine!
13
+ 8
38
59
Since there is no Major Arcana card numbered 59 (hey, we’re not using Minchiates here, people!), these digits need to be further reduced by adding them together, giving us a total of 14.
My theme for the year will be inspired by Temperance *does this mean I need to give up booze for the year?!*
But since my blog focuses on the Court Cards, I thought we’d have a little fun and extend the exercise further:
Instead of adding up your digits, above, until they total 22 or under (ie the number of Major Arcana cards we have), total them up until they are 17 or less.
I numbered the Page of Pentacles, the lowliest of the lowly, as 1. But your numbers will not reduce to one, so I’ve also accorded him 17 (because he’s also VERY special, as well as being the lowliest of the lowly).
So, if you add up to 17, then you are having a Page of Pents year 🙂
Taking my example again, this means that my 14 – Temperance year – becomes further compounded by Court Card 14…. which is The King of Cups. Hopefully, It’s going to be a year about finding the balance required by Temperance between emotions and relationships on one hand and still managing to be productive and get the job done.
Have a try yourself and tell me who you end up with as your Court Card theme for the year!
Page of Pents (1) or 17
Page of Cups 2
Page of Swords 3
Page of Wands 4
Knight of Pents 5
Knight of Cups 6
Knight of Swords 7
Knight of Wands 8
Queen of Pents 9
Queen of Cups 10
Queen of Swords 11
Queen of Wands 12
King of Pentacles 13
King of Cups 14
King of Swords 15
King of Wands 16
Stop being confused by court cards! Start being excited by the possibilities! Become a court card adventurer along with me 🙂 The Tarot’s Court Cards are my specialist area. They talk to me. Not LITERALLY though ….