The Major Arcana forms the segment in the Tarot deck with 22 cards. They highlight our spiritual development and significant events in our lives. The name hints at the event or trait that is currently relevant.

The 22 cards in the Major Arcana reflect your soul's journey throughout life's various stages and developmental phases. They are milestones in your life, reflecting your soul's experiences and actions alongside significant life events. These events leave impressions or checkpoints that affect you more deeply than everyday occurrences. The first card is The Magician (though The Fool can be the first, it can also be card 22). Drawing a card from the Major Arcana will show you something of greater importance in your life, perhaps a lesson or something beneficial. On each text for the Major Arcana cards, you’ll find aspects of personality and soul, along with an annual lesson.

Soul and Personality Cards
On each card in the Major Arcana, you first find a text for "love," then "Soul and Personality," and lastly, "Annual Lesson." With Tarot cards, you can calculate the soul and personality, adding numbers until you receive a one or two-digit number (maximum 22) corresponding to a card from the Major Arcana.

These cards indicate a personality you carry in this life, a lesson you are meant to develop. It can be a "fun activity" to calculate for yourself and your loved 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 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 typically get one or two.
Example:
1966 + 02 + 24 = 1982 = 1 + 9 + 8 + 2 = 20 = 2 + 0 = 2
Card number 20, Judgement, and 2, The High Priestess.
Example:
1958 + 10 + 31 = 1999 = 1 + 9 + 9 + 9 = 28 (not available)
2 + 8 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1
Card number 10, The Wheel of Fortune, and card number 1, The Magician.

Annual Lesson
You calculate the annual lesson using your birth numbers, which refer to the day and month you were born and the year you want to learn about. Annual lessons follow you throughout your life; you can create a small map to see what you have to learn in the future.

Annual lessons are karmic, meaning what you do to others and yourself you'll experience again; it comes back to you. An annual lesson can offer a clue about what the year entails. If you worked through the negative aspect during the last annual lesson cycle, you might notice little or nothing that particular year.

Annual lessons generally recur in nine-year cycles. If you tally these over your lifetime (0 – around 100), you’ll identify a pattern: the most recurring annual lesson is your most significant learning. When calculating the numbers and finding the card for the year, take it from the deck, study it, and ponder what it wants to teach you during the year and what it symbolizes. Please write it down and use it as guidance throughout the year to consciously work with that aspect.

Here's how you can calculate an annual lesson: I wanted to know my annual lesson for 1992, so I calculated as follows for myself, born on December 19:
19 + 12 + 1992 + 2023 = 2 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 7
I understood that in 1992, I should explore what The Chariot wanted to communicate to me. An annual lesson indicates the energy guiding your year. You calculate it numerologically and then examine each year. The annual lesson returning the most often is the one you need to examine, allowing you to review what occurred during previous years when that lesson was present, gaining as much future insight. Card texts reveal the characteristics of each annual lesson. The annual lesson doesn’t dictate your life but serves as a key to the influences over your years.