Tarot~Life Path Cards

Universal Goddess Tarot~The Empress

     Have you ever wondered how your year is going to be?  Or maybe there is a reason that you are the way you are?  I have constantly wondered how I became who I am and how that happened.  Of course, our parents or the people who raised did a lot of the ground work but I have always felt that there is something else that guides us through the paths we travel on a day to day basis.  Unfortunately mine is not the “you have just won the lottery” gods or even the “you are coming into money Tarot cards”.  But each of us do have life path cards that are specific to us.

    Your life path card is a card in the Major Arcana section of a Tarot Deck that symbolize distinctive lessons that we must master in our lives if we wish to move forward.  Unfortunately, being human and fallible, it is difficult for us to realize this without a big whack on the head or maybe a trip to “Oz” to understand the mysteries of life and the world.  We like to bend everything to our will and shape life the way we want it instead of, maybe, the way it was meant to be.

    As with all my posts, you need a little background and usually a “how everything is Greek” lesson, but the Greeks did not invent the Tarot, although they may claim it.

The Major Arcana usually represent our most basic issues, our inner secret soul, and our underlying motivations in anything we do.  They communicate the unconscious and conscious psychological aspects of YOU.  The Major Arcana are numbered 0-22 and they embody everything from the young, brash Fool, the “exciting yet scary” Wheel of Fortune, the sun and moon as well as a plethora of other aspects of the metaphysical YOU.

Universal Goddess Tarot~The Fool

  Here’s how you calculate which Major Arcana cards represent you.  It is figured out by your birth-date with its basis in numerology.  It is actually quite simple even if the directions sound like rocket science.  The overall goal is to get almost everything to a single digit.  Wait a minute, and you will get what I’m saying.  First take the month you were born, let’s say its November.  November is the 11th month.  1+1=2, literally:-)

    Next you want to take the day you were born,  I’m going to say you born on the 14th.  1+4=5.   Finally, you will take the digits in the year you were born and add them up like this, 1967, 1+9+6+7=23.  This breaks down even further to 5. (2+3=5)  I know, I know~this is like those crazy math problems from school.  It will be clear as mud soon.    Now, you are going to take all the “broken” down numbers and add them.  2+5+5=12, this first number is your first life path card, which is “The Hanged Man”.  Now since 12 is a double digit, we will reduce the number again to come up with your second life path card.  1+2=3 and your second life path card is…..The Empress.  

   So there you have your life path cards which are the driving forces throughout your life or in other words, provide the challenges specific to you in order to make life exciting.  Now, there is another card that we should all be familiar with and that is your personal year card.  This is a card that sort of  illustrate your lessons for that particular year.

Universal Goddess Tarot~The Moon

    You utilize your birth month and day just like with the life path cards but you will use the current year.   For example, if you were born on Novemeber 14th, we know that November is the 11th month, which is reduced to one number, 1+1=2, the 14th is also reduced to 5.   Now you will take the current year which is 2010, 2+0+1+0=3.   Now, 2+5+3=10 or 1+0=1.   Your personal year card is the Magician.

    Using the life path cards and the personal year cards are a great supplement to your tarot card readings.  These cards are specific to the individual and will help shed insight on various aspects of a Tarot Reading.  

The next Tarot series will be on the Major Arcana Card, the Moon.  I figured that since I was doing Moonstone for crystal therapy, I’ll keep with the theme, plus it is one of my Life Path cards.  Oh by the way, the ancient Greek Goddess, Selene was the Goddess of the moon and she is pictured in the Tarot card.  Do you suppose that means, since I’m Greek and the my life path card is the Moon, that I’m a Goddess?