These 22 cards depict our spiritual development and significant events in our lives.

The card's name is an archetype that suggests the current event or characteristic.

The 22 Major Arcana cards are about your soul's journey through life in different stages and phases of development. They are nodes in your life; they show your soul's experiences and actions, as well as major events in life.

Those events that leave an impression or make a point of departure, those that affect you more than an ordinary event in everyday life does. If we backtrack a bit into the Major Arcana, first comes the Magician (although the Fool comes first, but it could also be card 22).

When you get a card from the Major Arcana it will show you something more important in your life, maybe a lesson or something extraordinary.

On each card of the Major Arcana, you will find Personality and Soul and a yearly lesson.

Soul and personality cards

On each card of the Major Arcana, you will find a text, first for "love", then "Soul and Personality" and last "Yearly lesson." With Tarot cards, you can calculate soul and personality, adding numbers until you get a single or double-digit corresponding to a card from the Major Arcana.

These cards indicate a personality you carry with you in this life, a lesson you are meant to develop. It can be a "fun thing" to calculate about yourself and your closest ones.

You calculate your soul and personality by adding (+) your birth year + birth month + birth date =

Example: 1959 + 12 + 19 = 1990 = 1 + 9 + 9 + 0 = 19 = 1 + 9 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1

This results in the soul and personality with card number 19, The Sun; card number 10, The Wheel of Fortune; and card number 1, The Magician. These are the only numbers yielding three cards; you commonly get one or two cards.

Example: 1966 + 02 + 24 = 1982 = 1 + 9 + 8 + 2 = 20 = 2 + 0 = 2

Card number 20, Judgment, and card number 2, The High Priestess.

Example: 1958 + 10 + 31 = 1999 = 1 + 9 + 9 + 9 = 28 (does not exist)

2 + 8 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1

Card number 10, The Wheel of Fortune, and card number 1, The Magician.

You calculate yearly lessons using your birth numbers, i.e., the day and month you were born, and the year you want to know something about. Yearly lessons accompany you throughout your life, and you can set up a small map to see what you have to learn in the future.

Yearly lessons are karmic, meaning what you do to others and yourself, you will experience balance; it comes back to you. A yearly lesson can provide a clue about what the year entails. It might happen that the last time you had that yearly lesson, you worked through the negative aspect, and then you might notice little or nothing this year.

Yearly lessons usually recur in nine-year cycles, and if you calculate for your entire life (0 – around 85), you can see a pattern: which yearly lesson comes back the most is your biggest learning. When you calculate the numbers and find the card for the year, take it out of the deck, study it, and think about what it wants to teach you during the year and what it symbolizes for you. Write it down and use it as guidance throughout the year so you can consciously work with that aspect.

This is how you calculate a yearly lesson: I wanted to know my yearly lesson for 1992, and then I calculated the following for someone born on December 19: 19 12 +1992 2023 = 2 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 7 Then, I knew in 1992, I should examine what The Leader (The Chariot) wanted to tell me. A yearly lesson indicates the energy that governs your year. You calculate it numerologically and then look at each year. You can calculate from birth to 100 years to see what you have chosen to learn the most in this life.

The yearly lesson that comes back regularly is the one you need to review the most, and then you can start by looking at what has happened in previous years when you had that yearly lesson to learn as much as possible for the future. Below are the specific qualities of each yearly lesson. The yearly lesson does not determine your life but is a key to the influences in your years.